KBM Salvation And Repentance
KBM God's Plan Of Salvation • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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I hope everyone is doing well as we look today at our next lesson in this series on God’s Plan of Salvation. Having looked at Salvation And Faith we now turn our attention to that which is naturally the next step, and that is Repentance. But is meant by God when we read things such as Acts 17:30?
30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent
What is repentance? To understand repentance we must first understand sin. Too many people go throughout this life “feeling like God is fine with them and how they are living” because they have no idea what is sinful according to God and what is not. So what is sin?
4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
Sin is breaking God’s law which today means breaking the Law of Christ (Galatians 6:2; 1 Corinthians 9:21) and it only takes one sin to separate us from God (Romans 6:23; Isaiah 59:1-2). Unrepentant sin leaves one dead (Ephesians 2:1; Ephesians 4:18) and leaves us eternally separated from God if we die in such sin (Matthew 25:41-46).
As we study God’s word and learn of God’s love for us, by sending his Son to die for our sins, a true heart can’t help but feel “godly sorrow” and this is the first step to repentance (2 Corinthians 7:10). Why, because repentance is, by definition, a change in mind and behavior from that what separates us from God towards what draws us closer to God. So when we feel “godly sorrow or grief” for our sin and what it has cost our God we should naturally have a desire to change.
This change, as I just mentioned, is two parts. This change begins with a a change of mind from lusting after sin to desiring God’s love or as Paul put it in Colossians 3:2…
2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
We then determine to do the second part to this change which is a change in behavior or as John the Baptizer stated in Matthew 3:8…
8 Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.
So repentance that leads us to being saved it understanding we are sinners and lost without God. It is having a “godly sorrow” based on this understanding and a willingness to make the necessary change of mind and behavior that will allow God to save our souls.
In our next episode we will look at how we must then “count the cost” to determine if we “really want salvation” or not.
