J you think you're a good person I know
I'm a good person because I am a
Christian and God is first and foremost
okay you born again absolutely so are
you a good person well I'm not as good
as God but I am a good person but you're
close is that what you say I am super my
ex-husband did that's why
he's so you're a Christian absolutely
you love the Lord I love the Lord first
and
foremost we've got a problem in
contemporary Christianity Millions have
been told not to repent and believe in
Jesus but simply to believe the fruit of
this unbiblical gospel is that it's
filled the church with false converts
tears among the wheat foolish virgins
among the wise bad fish among the good
goats among the Sheep those to whom
Jesus will say on the day of judgment
depart from me you worker of lawlessness
you worker of iniquity I never knew
you after addressing the issue of true
and false conversion the writer of
Hebrews says but beloved we are
confident of better things concerning
you yes things that accompany salvation
there are certain things that accompany
salvation certain fruits that should be
evident of someone's truly saved among
these are the fruit of righteousness the
fruit of repentance and the fruit of
Holiness no one say because they do
these things they do these things
because they're saved we're saved by
grace through faith it's not of
ourselves it's the gift of God that's
without works that's what I believe and
that's what I preach but there are a
number of people who say I'm a heretic
because I tell the unsaved they must
repent and trust in Jesus to be saved
they say that I'm preaching Works
salvation because I'm telling them to
repent something of which they say
they're incapable they maintain all a
sinner needs to do is believe in Jesus
they say he's incapable of repentance
but he is capable of believing that is
of having
faith in a sermon entitled faith and
repentance Inseparable Charles Spurgeon
said we must not I think undervalue
repentance it is the Blessed grace of
God the Holy Spirit and it is absolutely
necessary under salvation Spurgeon
believe that repentance is absolutely
necessary under salvation Jesus said
repentance and remission of sins should
be preached in his name among all
nations he said I'm not come to call the
righteous but Sinners to repentance and
we're told to imitate him the Bible also
speaks of repentance unto
salvation not the order repentance is
first Mark 1:15 repent and believe the
gospel the Apostle Paul preached
repentance towards God and Faith toward
our Lord Jesus Christ he said testifying
to both Jews and also to Greeks
repentance towards God that's first and
Faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ
again note that
order then Peter said to them repent and
let every one of you be baptized in the
name of Jesus Christ for the remission
of sins and you shall receive the gift
of the Holy Spirit repentance before the
gift of the Holy Spirit was
given Paul told his unsaved hers to
repent truly these times of ignorance
God overlooked but now commands all men
everywhere to repent men are told to
repent
General William Boo the founder of the
Salvation Army warned that the time
would come when forgiveness would be
offered without repentance he said the
chief danger of the 20th century will be
forgiveness without repentance then he
said salvation without regeneration
politics without God and Heaven without
hell for further teaching on the subject
please feel free to listen to Hell's
best kept secret and true and false
conversion on the homepage of
livingwaters.com and keep preaching
repentance and Faith you're in good
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company oh and be ready to be called a
heretic
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