Real repentance is admitting to God you are no good, and then putting your trust completely in Jesus, so that you will not love sin anymore. Repentance is permanent, it is a daily and life-long experience. You will sin after you are saved by grace, but you will never love or enjoy or delight in sin again. You will never hold hands with sin again after you look to Christ Jesus, the Incarnate God bleeding and dying for you. False repentance is a fear of being damned, but Genuine repentance is a fear of sinning against a forgiving God. There is no cure for sinning like viewing and trusting the Blood of Christ. The goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance.
If you had a favorite knife, which you prized very much, and then someone broke into your home and took it and murdered your wife with it, you would hate that knife with which so heinous a crime was done; likewise the sins, which you have prized and cherished, and played with, have the blood of Christ on them. Your sins cut Christ to His very soul. So now you hate that sin you once loved, and you say to yourself, "How can I love that heinous thing that made my Savior bleed and die?" Genuine Repentance will not allow a darling lust to live within the heart. *Galatians 5:24*
Repentance is absolutely essential to go to Heaven - Real Repentance is a gift from God. We love sin till we see it killed our Best Friend, and then we being to loathe it. Only Repentance can stop you from delighting in sin and refusing to trust Christ. It is impossible to love sin and love Christ at the same time. The desire of the new creature created in Christ is to be rid of all known sin. Repentance is when you are convinced of sin by the Holy Ghost, and then you begin to loathe yourself, because you have sinned against Christ so badly, and you begin to abhor sin and turn away from it. A faith-look to Jesus breaks the sinful heart, both for sin and from sin. Repentance is a broken and contrite heart over personal sin against a good and loving God. The natural man doesn't feel his sins to be evil, he doesn't understand himself, he has a bias towards evil, and he is bent on sinning against God. You must be made right with God, You must bemade Right inside by the Holy Ghost - Jesus said, "Ye must be born again."
Repentance is not a qualification for faith in Christ, it is the result of faith in Christ. The only qualification for salvation is guilt. Nothing is to be trusted but the finished work of Jesus Christ upon Calvary's bloody tree - simply rely on the blood and merits of the Crucified and Risen Redeemer. Trust Jesus Christ with all your heart and you will Repent - for Faith and Repentance go hand in hand - like spokes in a wheel. Repentance is getting divorced from your old love - Sin. You cannot have sin and have Christ too. Get a divorce from your sin and self-righteousness and be wed to the Savior. Faith and Repentance are twin brothers, they are born at the same time. Sin should be hated, because it is committed against such a good and gracious God. JESUS is only given freely to poor and needy sinners. True repentance repents because of the sinful deed or thought itself, not for the punishment which is to follow the sin.
Repentance is a discovery and consciousness of the real evil of sin, a mourning that you have committed it against such a good and forgiving God, and a resolution by the grace of God to forsake that sin. Real Repentance makes a man love what once he hated, and hate what once he loved. Conversion is a turning from sin, a turning to purity - a turning from carelessness to thought, from the world to heaven, from self to Christ - a complete turning. Regeneration implants a new nature in the sinner, lead him to put his faith wholly in Christ, gives him a practical repentance of sin, and a conversion (turning) from that which is evil to that which is good. Nothing cures the love for sinning, like the sense of a blood-bought pardon from a sin-forgiving God. Now God commandeth all men everywhere to Repent.
True repentance is always accompanied by sorrow and regret for past sins. It is a radical change of mind from the love of sin to the love of Purity - this is a miracle of grace indeed. No man ever repents until God makes within him a new heart and a right spirit. The dirtiest thoughtyou'll ever have is a high thought of your self. Think very little of yourself and very much of Jesus. The essence of Repentance is to stop loving and enjoying your sins. Repentance only begins at the foot of the Cross underneath the blood of Christ. The sinner must not repent because of the punishment of sin, but because he repent of sin itself. Bible repentance is loving God enough to quit your sins.
Your sin is only against a pardoning God and a bleeding Savior, against a holy law, and a tender Gospel. While you love sin, you do not want to find God. Misery and wretchedness always follow indulgence in Sin. The fruits of the pleasures of sin for a season are sorrow, oppression, despair, guilt, sickness, venereal disease, slavery to addictions, and eternal death. Purity and gratitude always follow True repentance. It is a dreadful thing for a man to love sin, and to not love God his Maker. Jesus came not to call the righteous, but sinners to Repentance. Repentance is to submit and think as God thinks. God knows more than you, and He knows better than you. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of.
Repentance is the change of the mind, a change of the whole heart, of your loves, hates, desires, appetites, and judgment. Repentance is to be sorry for your sin in such a way that it makes you want to escape from it. Looking to the Lamb of God brings true repentance. My sins made Jesus bleed, how can I love them any more? That which governs your heart is your lord and god. Private inward purity is genuine proof of regeneration. Whatever your mind feeds in secret on is your delight. Repentance is to depart the sins we loved before, and show true gratitude by doing so no more. There is nothing good whatsoever in sin. True repentance only comes from the power of the Holy Ghost. Hell fire is kindled by sin.
Repentance is a lasting change, a sorrow for past sins, an inward disgust of self. Hatred for sin grows as love for Christ increases. Repentance is when you don't enjoy your sin anymore. True repentance is the secret work of the Holy Spirit in the heart and mind of a sinner. Only Christ can speak us clean, and only His hand can make us pure within - Christ gets all the glory for our Repentance. Repentance is the cry of the newborn babe in Christ, this penitent cry indicates that there is a new divine nature and real pure life within the new creature. Repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance. When we are lost, we curse God, love sin, and oppose God's will; but after we are saved, we love sin no longer, bless God, and find our highest delight in doing the will of God.
All men sin, and they cannot be saved unless they personally turn from sin; it is the work of the Holy Spirit that brings men to do so, but they must willingly repent with their own heart and mind. You must undergo a change of mind about everything; you think little of sin and little of Christ - your mind must be totally changed about sin and Christ. As long as you and Sin are going the same way, you will have no conflict with your Sin. If you are harboring secret lusts, you have a sham repentance. Real Repentance is turning and going toward God, the very opposite way of sin. Can two walk together except they be agreed? Repentance is a secret struggle against sin, and a deep desire to please God inwardly. We are indebted to God's goodness and grace, our sins put Christ to death. Repentance is a hatred of sin and a forsaking of it. God hates sin, and sin hates God. The Lord is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to Repentance.
A hatred for sin always accompanies the free pardon of sin. Repentance is a turning from sin and a determination in the strength of God to forsake it. You cannot love Christ and love sin, period. Repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. Repentance is the first symptom of Bible salvation. You cannot be truly grateful for salvation and still go and plunge into sin again and again. You may sin, but you do not love sin. You may fall into sin, but you are like a sheep which stumbles into the mud, but you are quickly up again, for a real sheep hates the mire. But the worldly sow wallows where the sheep is distressed, and the unregenerate dog eats the vomit of his sin again and again. Sin is a misery, plague, distress, and irritant to the *new creature*. Repentance is to leave the sins we loved before, and show that we in earnest grieve, by doing so no more. Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Have you ever repented? God, please give me true repentance, I don't love my sin anymore for it grieves you so.
