![]() The goodness of God leads us to repentance. God changes our appetites, God changes us into the image of his dear Son… after all the first people were called Christians because they had “Christlike” qualities, because after all we have the same Spirit that was in Christ…īut today we are talking about a simple thought. God is holy, the Holy Spirit is holy, and so a believer should be holy and separate unto God. Our previously dark, wicked minds are cleansed and renewed and changed. He washes us, cleans us up, produces holiness and purity in our lives, transforms our minds and thinking and reasoning. Salvation produces holiness, as the Holy Spirit in us sanctifies (separates us) us unto God. You can be a Christian, but not be saved, not be born again. Of course some Christians do not spiritually grow, they stagnate, because they are disobedient or maybe they’re just unconverted Christians. We endure, because Jesus endures in us, he is ALWAYS faithful even while we are unfaithful to him constantly. It’s not to say we don’t sin, or can’t backslide and so on, but because of that inner reality, having the Spirit of God in us, that same Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ in us, we will fall but be picked up by God, we will grow spiritually and go on to glory and press forward. Things that we used to do, we don’t do anymore. True salvation produces unmistakable birthmarks, as true salvation involves a new birth and thus produces unmistakable results in a person’s life. How can you be born again, converted… and yet remain the same person? You can’t. 2 Corinthians 5:17 – Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away behold, all things are become new. We become something new, a new creature in Christ. When we repent of our sins and place our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God births a new creature in us born of God, this is called conversion, being born again. But hopefully we are not like this with Jesus… Job 35:3 – For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? In fact many people the Bible says become so reprobate in their thinking, their consciences so seared that they can’t even blush at their sin… they sin and say they have done no wrong. Jesus name means “he shall save his people from their sins”. We are sinners by birth, by nature, we sin, we have sinned. After all, why do we need Jesus, did he die in vain? Why did he need to come to earth, why did God have to come in the flesh and die for mankind? Because we are so utterly depraved and wicked and alienated from God by our sins. The Holy Spirit points us to Jesus Christ. Repentance is the work of the Holy Spirit in our hearts convicting us of our sin and pointing us to Jesus. That’s why John the Baptist came before Jesus Christ, this practically showed us that repentance comes first (preparing the way just as John did for Jesus) and true repentance results in us trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ as the solution to our sins both judicially (penalty for sin) and practically (power of sin over us in our lives). Repentance is godly sorrow over sin, it is when we turn FROM sin TO the Lord Jesus Christ. True salvation involves repentance and conversion. ![]() Just like conversion is going from one thing to another. Repentance is missing today, people want Jesus, but without repenting of their sin… repentance means change. Yet what God commands everyone everywhere to do now, today. The goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance. Hey all, new blog today, and a simple thought today. Psalms 33:5 – He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD. Romans 2:4 – Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?Ģ Peter 3:14 – Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.Ģ Peter 3:15 – And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you
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