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I. C. Herendeen
For salvation, “repentance unto life” is just as necessary as is faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. No sinner was ever pardoned while he remained impenitent, while he remained in rebellion against God and His authority, and without submitting himself whole-heartedly to His Lordship.

I. C. Herendeen
This involves the realization in his heart, wrought therein by the Holy Spirit, of “the sinfulness of sin” (Rom 7:13), of the awfulness of ignoring the claims of God and of defying His authority.

I. C. Herendeen
Repentance is a “holy horror and hatred of sin, a deep sorrow for it, a contrite acknowledgment of it before God, and a complete hear forsaking of it.”

First, since we are commanded to repent, believe, and have faith, it is righteous to say that we are handed PERSONAL accountability to God on the topic of our own salvation.

However, we have also learned that it is by God’s grace alone that we are even able to repent, believe, have saving faith, etc.

Man Cannot Save Himself
Man is born TOTALLY enslaved, unable to do anything for himself, particularly in saving himself. In fact, unless God elected him, he is NEVER going to be saved!

"Before Creation, God chose those who would be saved and granted this unearned grace solely based on His sovereign good pleasure."

Ac 11:18
When they heard this, they quieted down and glorified God, saying, "Well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life."

“He who has an ear”
God alone enables spiritual “hearing”. A man can hear Holy Scripture 100 times and never get anything supernatural imparted to his account if God doesn’t will it so! (Mk 4:23; Rev 2:7)

God teaches truth and enables conversion.

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

THANK YOU!!!

Increasing Gratitude
Repentance leads us to gratitude. We give thanks when we realize how depraved we are (and continue to be in the flesh). As God reveals more sin to us, we repent more, and we are that much more grateful…and so on.

Understanding Salvation
Just because we can theologically, and even practically, make distinctions between repentance and faith, they are eternally, intrinsically bound together.

People won't honestly turn to Christ unless there is a repentance in their heart towards God for their sin; so much so this was the Apostle Paul's habitual way of preaching the Gospel! Ac 20:21

Charles Spurgeon
I learn from the Scriptures that repentance is just as necessary to salvation as faith is, and the faith that has not repentance going with it will have to be repented of.

Understanding Deliverance
Because a man’s heart is affected by God’s grace - and though he must repent and have faith - only a whole person is able to function in either and, therefore intrinsically, both at any given point in time where the end result is salvation/deliverance.

Ro 10:17
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

So much has to be accomplished BY GOD…yet, the unmistakable truth is that WE INDIVIDUALS are held personally responsible if we refuse His grace!

The Gospel of Jesus Christ
God is looking for the WILL of man, which intrinsically involves the whole person. A person must be “given to” in order to be “quickened to.”

Charles Spurgeon
It is God that chooses His people. He calls them by His grace; He quickens them by His Spirit, and keeps them by His power.

Charles Spurgeon
He was not afraid to give an earnest exhortation to sinners, and to bid men repent. He knew better than we do the inability of men concerning all that is good, yet he bade them repent.

Charles Spurgeon
It is clear, from this passage, that our Lord exhorted men to repent, and to believe the gospel. There are some, who profess to be his followers, who will not suffer us to do this.

Charles Spurgeon
We may teach men, and warn them, they say, but we must not exhort them to repent and believe.

Charles Spurgeon
Well, as the contention of these people is not in accordance with the Scriptures, we are content to follow the Scriptures, and to do as Jesus did, so we shall say to sinners, “Repent ye, and believe the gospel.”

Charles Spurgeon
Christ and we will never be one until we and our sin are two.
Holy Scripture says HE, His Person, the Person of Jesus, has the "words of eternal life".
Jn 6:63-69

J. Vernon McGee
The person who will not assume the risks involved in becoming a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ will, in the long run, lose his life eternally.

A. W. Pink
The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin.

A. W. Pink
And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of Fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.

Handing over the keys and asking the Lord Jesus to drive your car... that's conversion my friends. That's being born again. That's what saving faith looks like, because its accompanied by the attitude of repentance.