Featured Man's Ability to Repent

Baptized as an Adult, Id just like all my sins of the past to be cleansed and i just wanna start over God has helped me threw addiction and ive been caught up in Lust for so long still working on that its very tough and ive just felt the wieght of my own sin i repented and just felt like it was lifted from off my shoulders i asked for Jesus to set up camp in my heart and the Father to give me knowledge so that I may know him and i havent been to church in a while i wanna get plugged back in i do bible studys everyday and it seems like when he gave me a new heart one positioned to know him its like my hunger was his Word and I wanna be able to put hands on the sick and threw his stripes they will be healed i just wanna give it all and never look back because Jesus has done so much for me but its hard when i get tempted everyday by smoking and drinking and lust if u guys could pray for me it would be kind and appreciated

 

And thanks don for your reply

 

K. Thanks god bless u too

 

May I also chime in here, and add to what you said.

Christianity is NOT about starting over or second chances. Given and second, third or thousandth chance, we will would all still blow it. Christianity is about an exchange. Jesus lived the life that you should have lived, and he died the death that you should have died. He took your place. By grace and through faith, he is your righteousness. He is your right standing before God.

Don't try to clean yourself up or reform yourself, rather, trust in Christ, and you will be clean. Washed in the blood of the Savior, "though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool." (Isaiah 1:18)

You can't scrub away your owns sins, but you can have them forgiven. Just ask.

 

:applause:

 

Here's a more poetic way to say it:

Before the throne of God above
I have a strong and perfect plea:
A great High Priest, whose name is Love,
Who ever lives and pleads for me.

My name is graven on His hands,
My name is written on His heart;
I know that while in heaven He stands
No tongue can bid me thence depart
No tongue can bid me thence depart.

When Satan tempts me to despair,
And tells me of the guilt within,
Upward I look, and see Him there
Who made an end to all my sin.

Because the sinless Savior died,
My sinful soul is counted free;
For God the just is satisfied
To look on Him and pardon me
To look on Him and pardon me

Behold Him there, the Risen Lamb
My perfect, spotless righteousness,
The great unchangeable I am,
The King of glory and of grace!

One with Himself I cannot die
My soul is purchased by His blood
My life is hid with Christ on high,
With Christ, my Savior and my God
With Christ, my Savior and my God

Here's the musical version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LULK2nZ6sCc

 

Very well said!

The Archangel

 

You guys have amazing feedback

 

If every believer said stuff like that, there would be nary a disagreement.

Good stuff.

 

Goodmorning peeps!!!!

 

God holds man responsible, yes. Even though they have not the ability in themselves to repent, He still hold them responsible. Shall God lower his standards because man cannot measure up ? no. The question should be ask, what made man with a inability to repent ? It was not God, because God made man upright. To understand sovereign grace a man has to understand Adam was the human race federal head. All the human race was in Adam, so when Adam fell we fell in him. So the blame falls on Adam and not God. If man has an inability it was inherited from the Adam nature that all his seed received. God could have left all of mankind in a state of sin, passed by them and condemned the human race to hell. Was God obligated to save any ? no. God only chose to save a number that no man can number and this magnifies his grace as well as leaving the rest of mankind in their sins that magnifies his justice. The flesh will always rebel against this, human reasoning will always rebel against the fact that God can do as he will with is own creation. Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour ? Always remember, Gods ways are not our ways and his thoughts are not our thoughts, Isa 55:8

 

Yes, and where did the Adam nature come from? Who originated that? Who decided all his offspring would inherit it?

 

preach Tony, I could also say, I'm hung up on the fact that if God loves everyone and Christ died for everyone and shed his blood for everyone then why does he cast a multitude in hell ? After all, Paul said, Who shall separate us from the love of Christ, and then in verses 38 and 39 of Rom eight after he gives a list Paul says nor any other creature can separate us from the love of Christ. But wake up all the freewill people who believe Christ shed his blood for every one, hell is a separation, and we know according to scripture there are people in hell. So the conclusion is, Christ blood is not sufficient to save or his blood does not cover every human in the whole world. You sing there is power in the blood, do you believe it or not ?

 

There is a good example of that on this thread.
In post #35 Nate said:

I wanna get born again but im not sure how to go about the task! Have u guys ever healed in jesus name?


In post #45 Brian answered:
rather, trust in Christ, and you will be clean.

Interestingly enough, no one disagreed with Brian but all gave him a thumbsup, indicating his answer was very good.
It was also an answer that put forth a belief in free will--"trust in Jesus and you will be clean."
--This is the type of answer any non-Cal would give to such an inquiry, and to which every Calvinist would object to. But there was no objection to the answer, only consent. I find that very interesting.

 

Again we have a demonstration of ignorance concerning the Calvinist position. No Calvinist that I know of says that you don't need to trust in Christ.

The issue is not the need to believe in Christ. Rather, the issue is the first cause of the belief. Non-Calvinists, for the most part, believe the first cause is within the individual. Calvinists, on the other hand, believe that the first cause is from God--He is the one who acts and pursues; we are the ones who respond.

The Archangel