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Intro
Why are we doing these unified studies on communion Sunday?
-emphasis on understanding the gospel
-uniting around the communion table
-working on application in Sunday School
-spending the day going out and living out the calling of our commission
“Conversion is our willing response to the gospel call, in which we sincerely repent of sins and place our trust (faith) in Christ for salvation.”
Wayne Grudem
This definition springs from a host of biblical passages:
Luke
-We therefore recognize conversion requires both saving faith and repentance of sin.
Indeed, we cannot have one without the other.
A Danger—have you heard of “easy believism?”—
separating faith from repentance , believing that faith in Christ to be saved does not require a genuine repentance of sin, is to distort the saving gospel.
Faith
Faith is necessary to please God
Faith is distinguished from intellectual assent/approval
Faith is belief into Christ, union with Him
—this is not “belief about Christ”
—nor is it even to “believe Christ” himself, but to believe in Him
—that is to put one’s trust and confidence in union with Christ
that belief is not the intellectual approval of the mind but the sincere conviction of your whole heart
Romans 9:
This reality of faith being rooted “in Christ” means we cannot serve two masters—repentance is necessary!
In your own heart and in your witness to others, is faith merely the belief of truths about Jesus, or are you believing, trusting in Him?
Have you come to trust in Christ personally, or are you still at the point of intellectual knowledge and emotional approval of the facts of salvation without having personally put your trust in Christ?
Repentance
“Repentance is a heartfelt sorrow for sin, a renouncing of it, and a sincere commitment to forsake it and walk in obedience to Christ.”-Wayne
Grudem
Worldly sorrow vs. Godly sorrow…there is a difference
—> wordly sorrow is often a grief over pain or punishment as opposed to being distraught over the nature of our sin.
God demands that we turn to Him and therefore away from sin…this is Godly repentance
2 Corinthians 7:
Consider the story of the young ruler in
He approves of Christ, but does not have faith in Him
He has sorrow, but not a Godly sorrow for his sin that leads to repentance
Consider Esau in , who regretted and wept over his lost birthright, but found no repentance because he rejected God.
His was a worldly sorrow.
Constrast
David and Nathan &
Nebuchadnezzar
Have you ever truly repented of sin? Did it lead you to a genuine commitment to forsake sin?
Does your sin grieve you, and does that grief result in turning toward Christ, or do you hold onto sin?
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