I agree 100%. The peace and freedom that comes from knowing our sins are forgiven gives us the courage needed to live life with a hope unachievable by any other means. To step into the light of Christ is to change our way of thinking and living. Repentance then becomes a tool that each Christian uses to keep our fellowship alive.
Amen I agree , and what happens if we don’t repent ? That parts true also that’s where the fear of God comes in and moves us to repentance makes us move when we wouldn’t otherwise
awe have been born into a new life and like children we grow into more responsibility not the new norms but the ones who’ve gotten to big to sit in mamas lap and drink the bottle now we need some food to grow bones and teach lessons and responsibilities
No believer is lost some are just getting born others are toddlers others teen others adults others elders what I’m talking about is growing up
this kind of warning is imperative to the lessons we have to learn as believers things like this
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that
they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
Galatians 5:19-21 KJV
See this isn’t there to condemn Christian’s fornthier past it’s there to break them loose from thier present and lead them into better more fruitful lands of promise break the chains off and set captives free
if we refuse it it won’t help nor teachings anything towards repentance but if we accept it along with the rest assuring us of salvstion it goes to work I. Us to accomplish this change bring us to a place where we begin to act
“Wherefore, my
beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is
God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings:”
Philippians 2:12-14 KJV
a believers are changed inwardly by the word they hear and receive when we read about the dire need to stop sinning it’s meant to change our Will and actions from sin to righteousness
a theres a lot of it in the New Testament it’s meant to lead us to repentance by having the constant message there with the rest “
believers your going to be saved but you must repent and stop living as you did before “
It isn’t “ your saved it doesn’t matter what you do now repent or not your saved nothing you do matters now “
that’s a bit hyperbolic but it really is the message of so many “ this verse about grace is true , the one about repentance and eternal judgement those aren’t true “