Title: Repentance: The Verbs

Topic: Salvation

Summary: We look at the process of self-examination, acknowledgment and confession (whether internally to the Lord or also to another human being), praying for strength, and turning to live a new life.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Proverbs 4:23
Lamentations 3:40-41
1 Corinthians 11:27-28
2 Corinthians 13:5
Galatians 6:4
Proverbs 20:27
Psalms 139
Ezekiel 18:14, 27-28
Romans 7:14, 23
Leviticus 5:4-5; 26:40
Numbers 5:5-7
Nehemiah 1:4; 9:1-2
Psalms 32:1; 51
Proverbs 28:13
Jeremiah 3:12
Hosea 5:15
Matthew 3:2
Acts of the Apostles 19:18
James 5:16
1 John 1:7
Judges 16:28
2 Chronicles 7:14
Ezekiel 18:30; 33:11, 19

The idea of "lifting" is used in a number of different ways in the Bible. In general, it means connecting with a higher spiritual state for strength or enlightenment, though as with many verbs the context makes a great deal of difference. One of the most common uses comes as people lift up their eyes, which usually means coming into a state of perceiving what is true from the Lord. Lifting a hand or a rod means wielding power, making it common in the performance of miracles. Lifting the feet means elevating the most natural, external aspects of our day-to-day lives. Lifting objects means elevating them to higher uses, or sometimes just to protect them (Noah's Ark was "lifted up" in this sense). And so forth. In the negative sense, people can lift things up -- towers or other human structures -- representing a deeper state of the love of self.