Repentance is part of the “process” of faith. We not only “believe” Jesus – affirm that He and His words are true – we also “trust” Jesus (interesting that Greek has a verb for “faith”, but English does not; we’re stuck with “trust”) as He Who has borne our sins upon His cross so that we may be forgiven, Who has risen from the grave, opening the graves of men, that we may have everlasting life.
We aren’t going to do that, until we have come to understand:
- Who God and Christ are,
- what our condition and position before God is,
- that we have no remedy in ourselves to overcome our lostness, our guilt, and our condemnation, BUT
- that in Christ, that remedy has been fully provided, through His death & resurrection,
- that we must come to Christ, acknowledging our sin, our powerlessness to remedia...