What Will This Change Involve?

Gospel R&B

Our inability to please God by ourselves means that the real change of Christian conversion must involve relying on Christ alone in repentance and belief.

• True repentance means that we turn away and turn to.
  • We turn away from the many individual sins by which we have offended God's character and broken His Law.
  • We turn away from any attempt whatsoever to justify ourselves before God by appealing to our own orthodox beliefs or acceptable behavior.
  • We turn to God, and look to Him to pardon our sin, to give us right standing before Him, and to bring us into close fellowship with Him.
• True belief means that we trust only in the person, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
  • We trust Jesus as God's appointed provision for the forgiveness of our sins.
  • We trust Jesus for moral power to effect real change in our thoughts, attitudes, motives, desires, affections, words, actions, and patterns of relating to God and others.
  • We trust Jesus to keep us in this saving belief until He takes us all the way to heaven, where faith will become sight.
  • For the sorrow according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death. (2Cor 7:10)

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