repentance
Repentance is a change of mind!
"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
Romans 10:13 (AKJB)
"And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and thou shalt be saved, and thy house"
Acts 16:31 (AKJB)
Repent of unbelief and be saved!
God will forgive anyone!
"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness"
1 John 1:9 (AKJB)
Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks,
repentance toward God,
and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 20:21 (KJV)
Do not block God!
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper:
but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy
Proverbs 28:13 (AKJV)
Evangelist Don Boyd exposes the false doctrine of "repent of your sins" as a prerequisite for salvation. Many deceived people today preach that you have to "repent of your sins," or "turn from sins" in order to receive God's free gift of eternal life, but the Bible teaches that salvation is simply by BELIEVING on the name of the only begotten Son of God (John 6:47).
"And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way;
and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them;
and he did it not."
Jonah 3:10 (AKJB)
God doesn't want anyone to perish!
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward,
not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance
2 Peter 3:9 (KJV)
"Repentance is that thing when you come before God and see yourself as you are,
and see Him as he is, and say with Isaiah 'Woe is me, for I am unclean!'”
Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001)
The Greek word for “repent” in Mark 1:15 in the King James Bible is metanoeo, which means, “to think differently.” This is the verb form of the word. The noun form is metanoia (“a change of mind”). Repentance is a simple change of mind. It DOESN'T mean to “change your hearts and lives,”- David Stewart
NOW THE WORKS OF THE FLESH ARE MANIFEST, WHICH ARE THESE;
ADULTERY (voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not his or her spouse),
FORNICATION (sexual intercourse between people not married to each other),
UNCLEANNESS (morally impure thoughts),
LASCIVIOUSNESS (driven by thoughts of sex, lust),
IDOLATRY (an exceedingly strong passion/desire of something or someone other than God),
WITCHCRAFT (sorcery, magic, the black arts, witchcraft, wizardry, the occult, occultism, enchantment, spell, incantation, necromancy, divination)
HATRED (intense dislike or ill will),
VARIANCE (the fact or quality of being different, divergent, or inconsistent, disagreeing or quarreling)
EMULATIONS (ambition or endeavor to equal or excel others (as in achievement),
WRATH (extreme anger, rage, fury, outrage),
STRIFE (conflict, friction, discord, disagreement, dissension, quarreling)
SEDITIONS (conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against authority),
HERESIES (any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with the Bible),
ENVYINGS (covetousness with regard to another's advantages, possessions, or attainments),
MURDERS (is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse),
DRUNKENNESS (all drinking of alcohol is drunkenness),
REVELLINGS (letting loose or going wild, noisy partying or carousing),
AND SUCH: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past,
THAT THEY WHICH DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD
Galatians 5:19-21 (KJV)
"Repentance is simply the sick man acknowledging his illness; the sinner recognizing his need. It is a man realizing his utter bankruptcy before God, judging himself as a hell-deserving, lost, corrupt sinner before God. A person cannot be saved apart from this kind of acknowledgment of his sinful, lost condition before God."
Dr. Harry Ironside
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Repentance “From Sins” For Salvation is Not Biblical