"Repentance is as much a mark of a Christian, as faith is. A very little sin, as the world calls it, is a very great sin to a true Christian.” - Charles Spurgeon How Do I Repent? What is Repentance? C.H. Spurgeon How to Recognize True Repentance (Selected Scriptures) Don Green - Truth Matters
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Without repentance, a man will not see God. - Todd Friel Without repentance, a man cannot be saved. - Todd Friel How to NOT get saved. - Todd Friel Related:
Hell's Best Kept Secret True Repentance - Tim Conway How do I repent? - Tim Conway I am repenting, but it's not working!- Ask Pastor Tim Conway "Before our conversion, the Devil was not our enemy, he was our father." - Burk Parsons (John 8:44) The following is from GTY Blog: Is Calling on the Lord's Name All It Takes to Be Saved? by Jeremiah Johnson
Imagine living your whole life thinking you were saved from the penalty of your sins, only to discover that your assurance was false. It would be a tragic revelation with horrific eternal consequences. And I fear that many professing believers are in for that severe shock when they enter into eternity. Self-deception is at epidemic levels in the church today. Countless men and women have gone through the motions of “accepting Christ” or “asking Jesus into their hearts”—they’ve walked the aisle, prayed the prayer, and written the date in their Bibles—but they remain lost in their sins. And their false assurance only serves to inoculate them to the gospel and blind them to their need for the Savior. Read more: http://www.gty.org/blog/B160217 The Danger of Morality Outside of Christ — John MacArthur
“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.” — Matthew 12:43-45 “The Pharisees were classic moralists. There was no other group in existence at the time that was more committed to ethics, standards, principles of life, and morals than the Pharisees. They lived by a complex and demanding ethical moral code. Laws existed for everything, and their life was utterly and totally circumscribed by a mass of legislation and morality. In some ways, they would be the moral majority of their time; they were calling people to ethical behavior based upon the law of their own pious tradition. But in the process of their moral pursuit, they were in fact rejecting God Himself, who was in their midst in human form. So while they were deeply entrenched in morality, they were damned to Hell. It appears as though the more they came to commit themselves to morality, the more they set in concrete their own judgment. They cleaned up their lives outwardly, and so effectively did they do this that they convinced themselves that they were righteous, moral, and good. Consequently, when someone came along preaching the message of sin, they were not interested in listening. So under the illusion of their own self-righteousness, they became unreachable. Jesus had little trouble reaching the harlots, the thieves, robbers, criminals, outcasts, and sinners of society, including the tax collectors and the extortionists, but He had an almost impossible time reaching the religious, self-righteous, moral people who were under the illusion and self-deception that because of their goodness, everything was OK between them and God. They recognized no sin, so they needed no Savior. That is always the danger of morality. Morality creates an illusion of safety when in fact the person who is moral may be in the greatest danger of all. We see this particularly among the Mormons, who feel so secure because of their morality when in fact, they are so insecure and under the judgment of God and so hard to convince.” – John MacArthur taken from: Reformation vs. Relationship, sermon from Matthew 12:43-50 (Grace to You) |
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