1 Corinthians 15:51-53 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed -- in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

1. _______________ is a Christian ______________.

2. ______________________ is a road-block to faithful repentance for _____________ and ______________.

3. At the final trumpet, when Christ returns, ______________ will cease and _________________ will begin!

Scripture Readings
Leviticus 23:23-25
Acts 11:1-18
John 16:12-22

Take It With You!

During Easter we will be learning how the Israelites celebrated their God and how those celebrations point us to Jesus. Here we will offer thoughts and meditations on the celebration of Christ to help us as we contemplate and discuss and wrestle with the messages.

Concerning repentance it is taught that those who have sinned after baptism obtain forgiveness of sins whenever they come to repentance and that absolution should not be denied them by the church. Now properly speaking, true repentance is nothing else than to have contrition and sorrow, or terror about sin, and yet at the same time to believe in the gospel and absolution that sin is forgiven and grace is obtained through Christ. Such faith, in turn, comforts the heart and puts it at peace. Then improvement should also follow, and a person should refrain from sins. For these should be the fruits of repentance, as John says in Matthew 3:8: "Bear fruit worthy of repentance."

Rejected here are those who teach that whoever has once become righteous cannot fall again.

Augsburg Confession: Article XII: Concerning Repentance