Let's turn our attention to what Peter did tell these people to do. What does it mean to "repent" Repent is a word that means to change, to turn one's life around. Repentance is essential to salvation. Jesus says, "I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise peri...
it doesn’t really have anything to do with that at all. Instead, repentance is always used in reference to turning away from sin, and turning toward the obedience of God. And this makes sense when we discover what repentance does.
God wants all to come to repentance Ultimately, it is God’s plan that everyone will have the opportunity to receive the gift of salvation, beginning with the experience of personal repentance. As Peter wrote, God is “not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance...
2 Peter 31. He assures them of the certainty of Christ's coming to judgment;8. warning the godly, for the long patience of God, to hasten their repentance.10. He describes also the manner how the world shall be destroyed;11. exhorting them to all holiness of life;16. and again to ...
“Double Repentance” versus the “Double Cure” Greg Johnson has tried to say that the best way forward for the evangelical church is a “double repentance.” As we have seen, he misrepresents Lovelace in order to make his own point. Johnson says there is no cure (apart from final glorif...
‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river ...
Case in point is your testimony of spiritual afflictions common to all Christians; sin, followed by repentance, followed by a sense of forgiveness, followed by repeated sin, followed by repentance, followed by forgiveness and so on – round and round you go. It’s a vicious cycle for which...
The words of the Almighty rather show that repentance was still possible, and that Cain might still recover the Divine favour, and thereby regain that pre-eminence which was his by right of primogeniture, but which he felt that he was rapidly losing by Abel's prosperity and more loving ways...
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. 11:30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: 11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. 11:32 For G...
Through repentance the filth of our foul actions is washed away. After this, we participate in the Holy Spirit, not automatically, but according to the faith, humility and inner disposition of the repentance in which our soul is engaged. For this reason it is good to repent each day as th...