Repent ye, and believe the Gospel Now. Repentance in the Holy Scriptures is a radical, interior collapse of your vain, human pride. Repentance is the absolute abandonment of your self-righteousness, self-salvation, and love of sin, and you turning entirely from dead works and to the living God (*Acts 20:21*). Repentance is the bitter exterior of the GOS-PILL. Repentance is leaving your sinful ways and taking God's side against your own sins, pleading guilty, and dropping every weapon of rebellion and excuses. Repentance is a supernatural conviction wrought by the Holy Spirit. Repentance is the soul waking up to the horrifying reality of having sinned against an infinitely holy, loving Creator.
To refuse Christ's remission and repentance is to willfully choose your own destruction, clinging to the sinking ship of your human merit while spurning the love of God and the open door of mercy. Repentance is a divine gift from God: *"Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted Repentance unto Life"* (*Acts 11:18*). To "come to Repentance" means to be brought to the end of your own strength, inability, and vanity, stripped of all your excuses, and humbled before THE CROSS. Repentance is the moment the Holy Spirit enables you to forsake your filthy rags of self-righteousness, He quickens you to see your spiritual bankruptcy, and compels you to cast yourself upon the mercy of God in Christ Jesus.
The Holy Spirit shatters your carnal deceptions. The natural carnal mind is wrapped up in lies and conceits—believing it is inherently good, capable of saving itself, or safe outside of Christ. Repentance from the Holy Spirit destroys those lies. Repentance is not you earning or meriting the remission and forgiveness of your sins; rather, repentance clears the rags and dung away so your soul can receive the free pardon purchased by Christ's atoning blood.
Remember what JESUS SAID: *"They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to REPENTANCE."* The greatest barrier to salvation is not gross immorality, but self-imagined moral goodness. The self-righteous religionist, the formalist, and the proud moralist believe they are spiritually healthy and morally rich; therefore, they never sincerely seek the Great Physician from their heart. In the holy eyes of God, no human being is spiritually healthy. Every natural man is mortally infected with the terminal disease of sin. The only difference is that the self-righteous are blind to their terminal condition, while the broken sinner feels the crushing burden of his guilt and spiritual ruin.
Stop clinging to your own goodness, your own church standing, your own religious rituals, or your own moral resume. You are perishing in self-deception: never rely on your own spiritual fitness while your soul is rotting in sin, for this is the ultimate path to your eternal destruction. God will never help a proud rebel who thinks he can help heal himself. Jesus did not come into the world to reward the deserving, validate the religious elite, or recruit moral achievers. JESUS came to save the spiritually bankrupt, the helpless, the defiled, and the utterly undone sinner.
True Repentance begins precisely where Jesus says: acknowledging that you are sick. You cannot be healed until you confess that you are dead in sins. Repentance is dropping every pretense of your goodness, abandoning the "whole" illusion of self-salvation, and coming to the Savior as an absolute hopeless pauper who has nothing to offer but disease and guilt. The heavenly Physician made an earth call, not just a house call: He does not merely offer advice to a dying sinner; He applies His radical, sure remedy—His own precious blood. The Lord Jesus Christ did not come to give moral tips for self-improvement; He came to bear the penalty of your sickness upon THE CROSS by shedding His precious, sinless blood to make an ATONEMENT for the ungodly. Repentance tears away every vile rag of human pride, exposes the rotting corpse of self-salvation, and turns the eye of the helpless soul entirely away from self and toward THE CROSS. Renounce and disavow your supposed imaginary righteousness, confess your spiritual sickness, and cast your soul wholly upon the Great Physician, whose blood alone cleanses and heals forever!
When a sinner truly repents and turns to God, he bears immediate fruit (*"do works meet for repentance," Acts 26:20*). As 2 Corinthians 7:11 highlights, true godly sorrow produces spiritual life: carefulness (a deep reverence for God), clearing of yourselves (forsaking old sins), indignation (a holy hatred of sin), fear (a healthy dread of offending God and grieving the Holy Spirit), vehement desire, zeal, and revenge (avenging God's honor by putting your old life of sin to death and beginning to live for the glory of God out of gratitude to the Lord Jesus Christ). Repentance and faith are the two inseparable twins of salvation: repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ go hand in hand. You cannot turn to the Savior without turning from your self-salvation. Drop your futile weapons, abandon your dead works, and trust wholly in the FINISHED Blood-Atonement (*John 1:29; Romans 5:11*) of THE LAMB OF GOD today!
The Lord Jesus Christ and His precious blood are the only things that can overcome the curse of your sins and the evil of your heart. Publicans and harlots enter into the kingdom of God before the self-righteous egotists, intellectual scorners, and sin-loving scoffers. Only the Holy Spirit can bring you a sense of your guiltiness, imminent danger, total inability to save yourself, and brokenness of spirit; persuade you to repentance toward God away from sins; humble you before God; renew your inward nature, change and transform your heart, and make you a new creature in Christ Jesus. True sincere faith in Christ Jesus Himself saves the soul. Salvation is a divine change from enmity against God to friendship with the Father, from alienation to adoption, from stranger to son, through the inner working of the Holy Spirit and faith in GOD'S BLOOD.
Your hideous sinful corruption must be washed away through the blood of Jesus Christ. The things of God that you hated, you will begin to love and desire. The evil things you delighted in shall become detestable to you. Faith in Christ Jesus is an instantaneous act which brings immediate eternal salvation to your soul. There must be a creation—regeneration—all over again within you by the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit creates you in Christ Jesus, and the precious blood makes you acceptable before God forever. True faith will always walk hand in hand with godly repentance. The hatred of your sins always accompanies the sense of the divine pardon of Jesus Christ.
You are totally bad, and JESUS is totally GOOD. Really smart fools with brilliant depraved minds who reject Christ always wind up in hell, where they belong. Ye must be born again in your innermost heart and spirit by the power of the Holy Spirit, who is in the world today reproving men and women of the sin of not believing on Jesus Christ and persuading them to come to JESUS and to trust in His atonement. Ye must be born again from above, not just patched up with religion from beneath. God alone can create your soul in Christ Jesus. The old man is in conflict with God. Ye must be regenerated by the Holy Spirit; a new divine nature must be implanted within your heart—the incorruptible seed of the Word of God. God doesn't mend your old sinful nature; God gives you His divine nature by His divine power.
You must have this new divine nature within you that loves Christ and treasures God. Nothing short of God's divine nature (*Christ in you, the hope of glory*) will land you in heaven. You will surely be damned forever if you continue to live on in your sins and love your iniquities. There is no salvation for the man who loves his own righteousness and sins. The lost man hugs and enjoys his sins in secret. The respectable and moral man and the debauched and vile man must be saved the same way—in the dust at THE CROSS. When the flesh has done its very best, it still deserves the lake of fire. The vain efforts of lost human nature are directly opposite to the work of the Holy Spirit and His divine grace.
Human reformation or divine regeneration—which will you choose? Man wants to religionate you on the outside; the Holy Spirit wants to REGENERATE you on the INSIDE. All my faith is fixed on GOD'S BLOOD alone. Fix your heart's eye on THE LAMB OF GOD now.
All men and women in the earth today are divided into two classes: (1) guests refusing the invitation, and (2) guests feasting at the king's table. Child of God or child of Satan/wrath; sheep or goat; wise or foolish virgin; lost or found; dead in trespasses or quickened; dead in sins or alive unto God; darkness or light; aliens and strangers, or fellow-citizens and brethren; condemned already, or accepted in the beloved; wrath of God abides on you, or saved from the wrath to come; enemies of God, or reconciled to God by the death of His Son; far off from God by wicked works, or made nigh to God and at peace with God by the BLOOD OF CHRIST. Repent ye, and believe the Gospel now.
To refuse Christ's remission and repentance is to willfully choose your own destruction, clinging to the sinking ship of your human merit while spurning the love of God and the open door of mercy. Repentance is a divine gift from God: *"Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted Repentance unto Life"* (*Acts 11:18*). To "come to Repentance" means to be brought to the end of your own strength, inability, and vanity, stripped of all your excuses, and humbled before THE CROSS. Repentance is the moment the Holy Spirit enables you to forsake your filthy rags of self-righteousness, He quickens you to see your spiritual bankruptcy, and compels you to cast yourself upon the mercy of God in Christ Jesus.
The Holy Spirit shatters your carnal deceptions. The natural carnal mind is wrapped up in lies and conceits—believing it is inherently good, capable of saving itself, or safe outside of Christ. Repentance from the Holy Spirit destroys those lies. Repentance is not you earning or meriting the remission and forgiveness of your sins; rather, repentance clears the rags and dung away so your soul can receive the free pardon purchased by Christ's atoning blood.
Remember what JESUS SAID: *"They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to REPENTANCE."* The greatest barrier to salvation is not gross immorality, but self-imagined moral goodness. The self-righteous religionist, the formalist, and the proud moralist believe they are spiritually healthy and morally rich; therefore, they never sincerely seek the Great Physician from their heart. In the holy eyes of God, no human being is spiritually healthy. Every natural man is mortally infected with the terminal disease of sin. The only difference is that the self-righteous are blind to their terminal condition, while the broken sinner feels the crushing burden of his guilt and spiritual ruin.
Stop clinging to your own goodness, your own church standing, your own religious rituals, or your own moral resume. You are perishing in self-deception: never rely on your own spiritual fitness while your soul is rotting in sin, for this is the ultimate path to your eternal destruction. God will never help a proud rebel who thinks he can help heal himself. Jesus did not come into the world to reward the deserving, validate the religious elite, or recruit moral achievers. JESUS came to save the spiritually bankrupt, the helpless, the defiled, and the utterly undone sinner.
True Repentance begins precisely where Jesus says: acknowledging that you are sick. You cannot be healed until you confess that you are dead in sins. Repentance is dropping every pretense of your goodness, abandoning the "whole" illusion of self-salvation, and coming to the Savior as an absolute hopeless pauper who has nothing to offer but disease and guilt. The heavenly Physician made an earth call, not just a house call: He does not merely offer advice to a dying sinner; He applies His radical, sure remedy—His own precious blood. The Lord Jesus Christ did not come to give moral tips for self-improvement; He came to bear the penalty of your sickness upon THE CROSS by shedding His precious, sinless blood to make an ATONEMENT for the ungodly. Repentance tears away every vile rag of human pride, exposes the rotting corpse of self-salvation, and turns the eye of the helpless soul entirely away from self and toward THE CROSS. Renounce and disavow your supposed imaginary righteousness, confess your spiritual sickness, and cast your soul wholly upon the Great Physician, whose blood alone cleanses and heals forever!
When a sinner truly repents and turns to God, he bears immediate fruit (*"do works meet for repentance," Acts 26:20*). As 2 Corinthians 7:11 highlights, true godly sorrow produces spiritual life: carefulness (a deep reverence for God), clearing of yourselves (forsaking old sins), indignation (a holy hatred of sin), fear (a healthy dread of offending God and grieving the Holy Spirit), vehement desire, zeal, and revenge (avenging God's honor by putting your old life of sin to death and beginning to live for the glory of God out of gratitude to the Lord Jesus Christ). Repentance and faith are the two inseparable twins of salvation: repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ go hand in hand. You cannot turn to the Savior without turning from your self-salvation. Drop your futile weapons, abandon your dead works, and trust wholly in the FINISHED Blood-Atonement (*John 1:29; Romans 5:11*) of THE LAMB OF GOD today!
The Lord Jesus Christ and His precious blood are the only things that can overcome the curse of your sins and the evil of your heart. Publicans and harlots enter into the kingdom of God before the self-righteous egotists, intellectual scorners, and sin-loving scoffers. Only the Holy Spirit can bring you a sense of your guiltiness, imminent danger, total inability to save yourself, and brokenness of spirit; persuade you to repentance toward God away from sins; humble you before God; renew your inward nature, change and transform your heart, and make you a new creature in Christ Jesus. True sincere faith in Christ Jesus Himself saves the soul. Salvation is a divine change from enmity against God to friendship with the Father, from alienation to adoption, from stranger to son, through the inner working of the Holy Spirit and faith in GOD'S BLOOD.
Your hideous sinful corruption must be washed away through the blood of Jesus Christ. The things of God that you hated, you will begin to love and desire. The evil things you delighted in shall become detestable to you. Faith in Christ Jesus is an instantaneous act which brings immediate eternal salvation to your soul. There must be a creation—regeneration—all over again within you by the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit creates you in Christ Jesus, and the precious blood makes you acceptable before God forever. True faith will always walk hand in hand with godly repentance. The hatred of your sins always accompanies the sense of the divine pardon of Jesus Christ.
You are totally bad, and JESUS is totally GOOD. Really smart fools with brilliant depraved minds who reject Christ always wind up in hell, where they belong. Ye must be born again in your innermost heart and spirit by the power of the Holy Spirit, who is in the world today reproving men and women of the sin of not believing on Jesus Christ and persuading them to come to JESUS and to trust in His atonement. Ye must be born again from above, not just patched up with religion from beneath. God alone can create your soul in Christ Jesus. The old man is in conflict with God. Ye must be regenerated by the Holy Spirit; a new divine nature must be implanted within your heart—the incorruptible seed of the Word of God. God doesn't mend your old sinful nature; God gives you His divine nature by His divine power.
You must have this new divine nature within you that loves Christ and treasures God. Nothing short of God's divine nature (*Christ in you, the hope of glory*) will land you in heaven. You will surely be damned forever if you continue to live on in your sins and love your iniquities. There is no salvation for the man who loves his own righteousness and sins. The lost man hugs and enjoys his sins in secret. The respectable and moral man and the debauched and vile man must be saved the same way—in the dust at THE CROSS. When the flesh has done its very best, it still deserves the lake of fire. The vain efforts of lost human nature are directly opposite to the work of the Holy Spirit and His divine grace.
Human reformation or divine regeneration—which will you choose? Man wants to religionate you on the outside; the Holy Spirit wants to REGENERATE you on the INSIDE. All my faith is fixed on GOD'S BLOOD alone. Fix your heart's eye on THE LAMB OF GOD now.
All men and women in the earth today are divided into two classes: (1) guests refusing the invitation, and (2) guests feasting at the king's table. Child of God or child of Satan/wrath; sheep or goat; wise or foolish virgin; lost or found; dead in trespasses or quickened; dead in sins or alive unto God; darkness or light; aliens and strangers, or fellow-citizens and brethren; condemned already, or accepted in the beloved; wrath of God abides on you, or saved from the wrath to come; enemies of God, or reconciled to God by the death of His Son; far off from God by wicked works, or made nigh to God and at peace with God by the BLOOD OF CHRIST. Repent ye, and believe the Gospel now.
