True Repentance?

[bfloydo]

   I want to write a little about my thoughts on repentance, and welcome yours. I write in bold as I see Repentance as a Key to Salvation.

 

 Would anyone forgive a person if with their mouth they ask forgiveness, and with their hand slapped your face?

 

 If your child did a bad wrong that could have killed them, and one was smug or non emotional and said "I am sorry"  .. the other crying many tears and grasping your leg, holding tightly begs your forgiveness. Which of these would you feel better about? Which learned their lesson?

 

 God can see and feel our hearts and thoughts just as plainly as the example above. I feel many don't consider the awesomeness of who they are talking to, and don't come before him in great humbleness. I go off alone, and pray forgiveness (not with words, but in thought of mind and heart... for I am certain he can hear me quite well without my spoken words).

  I know when my sin is forgiven, for each and every time I cry. These are joyful and refreshing tears as I feel it is God's way of cleaning me up from the inside out. After this I very, very rarely reflect on any past sins as God has erased them from my memory.

  

 

[bfloydo]

Bumped, any thoughts?

[simplejeff]

Good points.   On Judgment Day, the Judge tells those who TODAY are living "as" christians but have not repented  

to be gone ....  they refuse to listen to His Word and His Warnings while they were still alive;  they get no other chance.

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Maybe consider the 2 sons.   One says "I will do what you told me to do father...."  then he goes and does something else instead....

.......  and the other son says "No, I won't do what you told me to do father...."   ... ... 

but then he does go and do what he was told.

Which one 'repented' in truth ?

[hmbld]

4 minutes ago, bfloydo said:

Bumped, any thoughts?

Well, we can know we are forgiven by what scripture says, not whether we cry or not.  By faith, but I see what you are saying, repentance is key . . .

[simplejeff]

8 minutes ago, hmbld said:

Well, we can know we are forgiven by what scripture says,

"are" , or "can be" ? 

How can we "KNOW" we are not those Yeshua turns away on Judgment Day ? What is the Test? ((in First John, for one example))

[hmbld]

17 minutes ago, simplejeff said:

"are" , or "can be" ? 

How can we "KNOW" we are not those Yeshua turns away on Judgment Day ? What is the Test? ((in First John, for one example))

Eph 2:8-9  For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast

Romans 10:9  because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 11:6  But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.

[simplejeff]

Yes, the Scripture is Certainly True.  

But those who don't live by Faith in Jesus also claim those same Promises : sometimes called the "bless me " crowd .

What is the TEST(s) in GOD'S WORD that separates/ or verifies/ substantiates/ proves/  those who only worship God with their lips, but their heart is far from Him,  

the TEST even for ones self((our selves)) to know they/we/anyone is not being deceived by sin ? This is especially important because so many are willingly deceived, and told wrongfully the promised gift is theirs when it is not  yet theirs.

Note: this test does not identify , nor separate, the tares from the wheat.  The tares and wheat are mixed together in the same field and either look the same or for some reason cannot be separated until God's Word says.

13 minutes ago, hmbld said:

Eph 2:8-9  For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast

Romans 10:9  because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 11:6  But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.