Awakening to Regret

Finding Your Way Back to God

By Joe Denbow, September 18, 2022

Luke 15:15-17 He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs. The young man became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him anything. “When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger!

1. AWAKEN TO

Psalm 51:3-5 For I recognize my rebellion; it haunts me day and night. Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just. For I was born a sinner— yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.


2. STEP INTO REPENTANCE

…. v. 20. So he returned home to his father…

2 Corinthians 7:10 “Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.”

- Repentance is not

- Regret is about the . Repentance is about the .


3. LIVE THIS LIFE TO THE FULL

John 10:10 …I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

God rarely puts something new in your life until you let go of something old and broken.

John 4:13-14 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”