Repentance is something that our culture knows virtually nothing about.  Unfortunately, there are relatively few even in the church today that understand it.  To most Christians it is nothing more than a dusty relic that you may find in some puritan age literature.

But this doctrine is the key that unlocks the dismal door of death.  In this passage Christ lays forth for us the need and nature of true repentance.  In doing so he reminds us that if we fail to give adequate attention to this doctrine, then we fail to rightly prepare for that last bell that will toll for our lives.