What is an example of false repentance?

Paul Thompson explains in this video that we see instances of false repentance in Scripture. Jeroboam was king and God sent a man to call him out of the ungodly things that he has done.

The man of God comes and warns Jeroboam and Jeroboam immediately attempts to have him thrown out and he stretches out his harm. While he is pointing at the man of God, God strikes his arm. While Jeroboam cries out for God to restore his arm, it is clear that Jeroboam never did repent for his sin.

Jeremiah 17:9 (NKJV) – “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?”

False repentance we see throughout Scripture as well. Maybe the most vivid description of this will be in 1 Kings. The division of the kingdoms have just happened and Jeroboam has been appointed by the Northern Kingdom to be the king. God sends a godly man to come and to call them out of the ungodly things that they've just done. Jeroboam has ordered these golden calves to be established and placed, and he's burning incidences.

He's creating new festivals that are not godly. And the man of God comes and he warns him. And Jeroboam's response immediately is to have him thrown out. And so he stretched out his hand to the man of God and has him to be thrown out. And while he's pointing at the man of God, God strikes his arm.

And in a level of fear, perhaps a human sorrow, he realizes the great tragedy of what's happened to his arm and he calls out to the man of God, Pray to your God that my arm would be restored." Where God did give grace to Jeroboam in that place and restored his arm, it's very clear that Jeroboam never repented. Every king after Jeroboam in the northern kingdom are held to the sins of Jeroboam. Jeroboam and his sins and his moment of sorrow was not genuine. It was worldly and it was all about the current moment and about his own condition and the hardship that it was going to cause on him, he never really looked at the holiness of God and repented.