These were the words of the Son of God incarnate. They were never cancelled; Repentance is absolute and necessary if the sinner wants to make peace with God (Isaiah 27:5), because repentance is to lay down the weapons of rebellion against him. however, no sinner has been or will be saved without him. Nothing that Christ saves, but an unrepentant heart cannot receive it.
A sinner can’t really believe until he repents. This comes from Christ’s words about his forerunner, because John came to you on the path of justice, and you gave him no credit, but the tax collectors and prostitutes gave it to him; but when you saw this, didn’t you regret it later to believe in him?(Matthew 21:32). This also arises from his trumpet call in Mark 1:15, “Repent and believe in the gospel. “That is why the Apostle Paul testified: repentance for God and faith in our Lord Jesus?(Acts 20:21). Do not be confused at this stage, dear reader, does God now command all men throughout the world to repent?(Acts 17:30).
- By demanding repentance from us.
- God imposes His righteous rights upon us; it is infinitely worthy of supreme love and honor.
- And of universal obedience; that’s what we ungodly deny him.
- Recognition and correctness of this is required of us; our disaffection with him and our rebellion against him must be recognized and exterminated; In this way.
- Repentance is a deep understanding of how I have failed.
- Throughout my life.
- To give God his rightful place.
- In my heart and in my daily walk.
The righteousness of God’s request for my repentance is evident if we consider the dreadful nature of sin: sin is a renunciation of the One who made me is to deny his right to govern me. It is a determination to please me; so it’s a rebellion against the Most High. Sin is a spiritual illegality and an absolute indifference to God’s authority. He says in my heart, I do not care what God asks, I will follow my path; No matter what God says about me, I’ll own myself. Reader, don’t you realize that’s how you live?
True repentance arises from the understanding in the heart, operated by the Holy Ghost, of the excessive malignancy of sin, of the terror of ignoring the demands of the One who made me, of defying his authority. He is, therefore, a holy hatred and horror. of sin, a deep sadness for him, and his gratitude to God, and a complete abandonment of him from the heart. Until this happens, God will not forgive us. Everything that covers your transgressions will never prosper; But whoever confesses and leaves will have mercy?(Proverbs 28:13).
In true repentance, the heart turns to God and recognizes: My heart has been placed in a vain world, which cannot meet the needs of my soul; I abandoned you, the source of the white water, and turned to broken cisterns that retain nothing: now I recognize and regret my madness. It says even more: I was an unjust and rebellious creature, but I will never be like that. Now I desire and decide with all my power to serve you and obey you as my only Lord, I give myself to You as a gift and eternal service.
Reader, whether you are a Christian or not, you must repent or perish. For each of us, a member of the church or not, go back or burn; return of the sense of stubbornness and self-satisfaction; He returns to God with a broken heart, seeks his mercy in Christ; return with all the purpose of the heart to please and serve you; or be tormented day and night, for ever and ever, in the lake of fire. What should your share be? Oh, kneel now and pray to God to give you the spirit of true repentance.
“Yes, God, with his right hand, raised him up to Prince and Savior, to give Israel repentance and the remission of sins?(Acts 5:31). For sorrow according to God produces repentance for salvation, which brings no pain; But does the sadness of the world cause death?(2 Corinthians 7:10).