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Repentance
- Thread starter Jim
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The key comes back to what is regeneration or the new birth (see John 3:3-8). When we are birthed into Christ Jesus the Holy Spirit creates in us a new nature and crucifies the old nature (see Galatians 5 end of the chapter). Too we see this in Romans 8:1-11 or so. The old nature is gone and new nature arrives. But like Peter said we are babes in Christ (see 1 Peter 2:2). Thus as babes we have to grow up in our new nature. As Peter also said we have to make our calling and election sure (see 2 Peter 1).
So how can we define all of this in a concise statement? Those who are eternally regenerated will continue to repent throughout their lives. It is not "once saved always saved" as that is the wrong emphasis. The emphasis from Scripture is once regenerated always repenting. The new nature has a new willingness to it that will repent when sin is discovered and recognized. As the Bible so clearly says: "no one born of God will continue to practice sin, he cannot go on sinning because the seed of God abides in him" (1 John 3:9-10). Why can a reborn person not continue to live forever in a life of sin? He cannot because the new seed in him is the life principle of God in and through the Holy Spirit. To then say that sin can so overcome and dominate forever an eternally redeemed saint is to then say sin is more powerful than God's grace. But in Romans Paul taught us that where sin abounds grace much more abounds. Grace is not just a covering for sin but rather it is more; it is actually efficacious power in us that moves us towards holiness.
Plus, we have Scripture that teaches us that if someone were to sin for too long of a period that God will actually destroy them so they will be taken to heaven where they will not sin anymore (see Hebrews 10:26 onward, and 1st John 5 about a sin unto death). So on both accounts we have a sure word from the Lord that a saint will not be able to go on forever without repentance. If someone is living in defiance and they do not experience discipline that leads to turning towards righteousness they are called in Hebrews illegitimate children. Legitimate children are disciplined by the Lord and if someone is not disciplined then they are not a true child of the Lord.
So how can we define all of this in a concise statement? Those who are eternally regenerated will continue to repent throughout their lives. It is not "once saved always saved" as that is the wrong emphasis. The emphasis from Scripture is once regenerated always repenting. The new nature has a new willingness to it that will repent when sin is discovered and recognized. As the Bible so clearly says: "no one born of God will continue to practice sin, he cannot go on sinning because the seed of God abides in him" (1 John 3:9-10). Why can a reborn person not continue to live forever in a life of sin? He cannot because the new seed in him is the life principle of God in and through the Holy Spirit. To then say that sin can so overcome and dominate forever an eternally redeemed saint is to then say sin is more powerful than God's grace. But in Romans Paul taught us that where sin abounds grace much more abounds. Grace is not just a covering for sin but rather it is more; it is actually efficacious power in us that moves us towards holiness.
Plus, we have Scripture that teaches us that if someone were to sin for too long of a period that God will actually destroy them so they will be taken to heaven where they will not sin anymore (see Hebrews 10:26 onward, and 1st John 5 about a sin unto death). So on both accounts we have a sure word from the Lord that a saint will not be able to go on forever without repentance. If someone is living in defiance and they do not experience discipline that leads to turning towards righteousness they are called in Hebrews illegitimate children. Legitimate children are disciplined by the Lord and if someone is not disciplined then they are not a true child of the Lord.
David777
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Here the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhMnx1R2kVg
links repentance with peace of mind, the Peace of God. I think it's very worth watching.
If there is sin in one's life, one's own conscience takes the peace away, and our confidence in salvation. But when all sin is repented of, then the person abides in "the secret place of the Most High".
King James Version
1He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
3Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
4He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
5Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
6Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
7A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
8Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
9Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
10There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
11For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
12They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
13Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
14Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
15He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
16With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
<< Psalm 91 >>HOLY BIBLE, King James Version, Cambridge Edition.
"Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhMnx1R2kVg
links repentance with peace of mind, the Peace of God. I think it's very worth watching.
If there is sin in one's life, one's own conscience takes the peace away, and our confidence in salvation. But when all sin is repented of, then the person abides in "the secret place of the Most High".
King James Version
1He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
3Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
4He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
5Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
6Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
7A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
8Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
9Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
10There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
11For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
12They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
13Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
14Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
15He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
16With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
<< Psalm 91 >>HOLY BIBLE, King James Version, Cambridge Edition.
"Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live"