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<blockquote data-quote="ldonjohn" data-source="post: 77594898" data-attributes="member: 339395"><p>For the unbeliever repentance is a "change of mind" about Jesus/God. You change your mind from believing that you don't need Jesus to believing you do need him. You change your mind from believing you aren't a sinner to believing that you are a sinner who needs a savior. You change your mind from believing that God does not exist to believing that he does exist. You change your mind from believing that you can do good deeds/works to make yourself acceptable/forgiven to/by God to believing that there is nothing you can do to make yourself acceptable/forgiven to/by God. There is no repentance without the convicting/convincing work of the Holy Spirit in an unbeliever's life. Repentance for the unbeliever is a life changing event for an unbeliever when God's Spirit convinces that person that he is a sinner who needs the forgiveness that is available only through the finished work of Jesus on the cross, and that person casts his helpless hopeless self upon the message of the cross. That is repentance & faith which results in the justification of the new born-again believer. The weakest faith is saving faith if the object of that faith is the finished work of Jesus on the cross where he shed his blood and died to pay the penalty for our sins.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ldonjohn, post: 77594898, member: 339395"] For the unbeliever repentance is a "change of mind" about Jesus/God. You change your mind from believing that you don't need Jesus to believing you do need him. You change your mind from believing you aren't a sinner to believing that you are a sinner who needs a savior. You change your mind from believing that God does not exist to believing that he does exist. You change your mind from believing that you can do good deeds/works to make yourself acceptable/forgiven to/by God to believing that there is nothing you can do to make yourself acceptable/forgiven to/by God. There is no repentance without the convicting/convincing work of the Holy Spirit in an unbeliever's life. Repentance for the unbeliever is a life changing event for an unbeliever when God's Spirit convinces that person that he is a sinner who needs the forgiveness that is available only through the finished work of Jesus on the cross, and that person casts his helpless hopeless self upon the message of the cross. That is repentance & faith which results in the justification of the new born-again believer. The weakest faith is saving faith if the object of that faith is the finished work of Jesus on the cross where he shed his blood and died to pay the penalty for our sins. [/QUOTE]
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