APB Repentance - What it Means to Repent and Why We Must Do So

  Except you repent, you will all likewise perish. – Luke 13:5

It is indifference that leaves people alone and allows them to go their own way.  It is love, tender love, that warns them and raises the cry of alarm.  The cry of “Fire! Fire!” at midnight might sometimes rudely, harshly,  and unpleasantly startle a person out of his sleep, but who would  complain if that cry was the means of saving his life? The words Except you repent, you will all likewise perish  might at first seem stern and severe, but they are words of love, and  they could be the means of delivering precious souls from hell.
 

1. The nature of repentance: What is it?
2. The necessity of repentance: Why is repentance needful?