Question 76. What is repentance unto life?

 

Question 76. What is repentance unto life?

Answer. Repentance unto life is the grace of salvation that is brought about in the heart of a sinner by the Holy Spirit and Word of God. As a result, he sees and feels the danger, filthiness, and ugliness of his sin, and repents of it. Therefore, he realizes the mercy of God given in Christ, and deeply grieves and hates his sin, so that he turns away from all his sins and turns to God, and in all things he becomes obedient and makes the purpose and effort to walk with God without ceasing.

 

According to the doctrine, repentance means turning away from sin with all one's being, seeing and feeling the danger, filthiness and ugliness of one's sin, repenting and making a continual effort to turn away from sin.

Church people often understand the phrase “repent” as “repent for a mistake, confess, and ask for forgiveness.” When a believer does something that is not right in the eyes of God, or does something bad to another person, or does something that others would point fingers at as a child of God, he or she comes to church, repents of that action, and asks God to forgive him or her.

Jesus said to the people of Israel, “Repent.” If they understand the meaning of Jesus’ “Repent” as repenting for a mistake, confessing, and asking for forgiveness, then they have misunderstood the Bible.

Sin means leaving God. Leaving God and judging good and evil on your own, or thinking of achieving righteousness by the standards of the law without God, is sin itself. Therefore, thinking like this is wrong, so the word “repent” is to tell you not to do it on your own but to return to God.

Even today, there are still many who judge themselves by the law. The problem of sin is solved if we are in Jesus Christ. The word “repent” means “to reconsider, to regret, to change direction and return.” “When Jesus told the Israelites to repent,” he meant to give up trying to achieve righteousness by diligently keeping the law and meet Christ. In other words, he told them to return to God. He told them to give up trying to achieve righteousness by themselves and return to Christ.

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