Grace & Salvation
It does at first seem most amazing to an awakened man that salvation should really be for him as a lost and guilty one. He thinks that it must be for him as a penitent man, forgetting that his penitence is a part of his salvation.
“I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.”
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Be not content, O sinner, in this estate!
It is when a man is brought to this confession that deliverance is at hand.
Faith and repentance, like Siamese twins, are vitally joined together. In proportion as we believe in the forgiving love of Christ, in that proportion we repent; and in proportion as we repent of sin and hate evil, we rejoice in the fullness of the absolution which Jesus is exalted to bestow.
and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Repentance comes not from unwilling nature, but from free and sovereign grace.
For love of Thy love I do it; reviewing my most wicked ways in the very bitterness of my remembrance, that Thou mayest grow sweet unto me.
and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Assuredly the contemplation of the death of Christ is one of the surest and speediest methods of gaining repentance. Do not sit down and try to pump up repentance from the dry well of corrupt nature.
It is God looking into the sinner’s face that has introduced a Christian element into human sorrow.
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
I will now call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptions of my soul; not because I love them, but that I may love Thee, O my God.
The conversion of a sinner consists in his obeying the truth.
Behold my heart, O God, behold my heart, which Thou hadst pity upon in the bottom of the bottomless pit.
Repentance is an act of the will—in its beginning there may be no sense of gladness or reconciliation with God.
When a sinner repents, that state of mind makes it proper for God to forgive him.
Repentance and forgiveness are riveted together by the eternal purpose of God.
Spread all your wickedness before him, and do not plead your goodness; but plead your badness, and your necessity.
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