WHAT IS TRUE REPENTANCE?

Mark 1:15 "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel."

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10

For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

We live in a day when most of modern Christianity is viewed as a scam. So many professed believers proclaiming love for Jesus and yet they are still wedded to this present world. Many professed believers in Christ professed to be saved but they have no idea what they are really saved from. Christianity in America is a million miles wide but only an inch thick!!!

I was reading Spurgeon and came across these very sobering words on repentance. So, as you read through these words from Spurgeon ask the Lord as the Psalmist did in Psalm 26:2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; Try my mind and my heart. Indeed this very uncommon in the day in which we live but it's Biblical. May Jesus convict, instruct, and comfort us as we long for that glorious day when we will never have to repent again!!!

"There must be a true and actual abandonment of sin and a turning unto righteousness in real act and deed in every day life. Repentance, to be sure, must be entire. How many will say, Sir, I will renounce this sin and the other...but there are certain darling lusts which I must keep and hold? Oh, sirs, in God's name let me tell you, it is not the giving up of one sin, nor 50 sins which is true repentance. It is the solemn renunciation of every sin. If thou dost harbor one of those accursed vipers in thy heart and dost give up every other, that one lust like one leak in a ship will sink thy soul. Think it not sufficient to give up thy outward vices, fancy it not enough to cut off the more corrupt sins of thy life, it is all or none which God demands. Repent, says He, and when He bids you repent, He means repent of all thy sins otherwise He can never accept thy repentance as real and genuine. All sin must be given up or else you will never have Christ. All transgression must be renounced or else the gates of heaven must be barred against you. Let us remember then that for repentance to be sincere, it must be entire repentance. True repentance is a turning of the heart as well as of the life. It is the giving up of the whole soul to God to be His forever and ever. It is the renunciation of the sins of the heart as well as the crimes of the life."

Made Willing In The Day Of His Power!

Casey Kirkman