My Regards To Repentence

The word “repentance” is metanoia in the Greek, which means to change one’s mind. For example, you used to believe that Jesus was just a good man. Then one day, you repented and believed that He is the Son of the living God, who died for your sins and rose again on the third day, and you gladly took Him as your Savior.

I read this earlier and it continues to blow me away.
To understand that the work is done and that there is nothing I can do about it.

It pains me to no end to hear “Christians” and “believers” saying things like, “I feel bad about myself today….” or “I need to repent today….”
It’s similar to the whole, “I lost my salvation” line.
You didn’t lose your salvation. You felt like bitching out on your faith because you were mad at where YOUR decisions had taken you.
When some says they lost their salvation, I say, “Oh, here I found it. It was sitting here in my pocket right under your pride. Get bent!”

People who claim to be followers of the way and yet live lives of turmoil, unforgiveness, and guilt are not really ‘believers’. They want to believe, but they have not yet repented.

The word of God says, “If you try to be made right with God through the law, your life with Christ is over—you have left God's grace.” (Gal. 5:4)

Note, it doesn’t say that you leave God’s grace because you sin or because you don’t repent. It says you leave His grace (fall from Grace-NIV) because you try to mix law into your belief system. To be right with God is to believe in the Son. Anything apart from that is work. Work is law. And if you wanna go that route, well, stop saying you believe in Christ.

It amazes me how we were all lied to. Being told every week, “You need to get right with God! Repent!”
When, essentially, we were made to be the bride of Christ when we repented (changed mental direction). That bond is safe and secure. For those who are married, imagine if you had to get re-married every time you messed up? It would be quite costly every week, don’t you think? And how long would your spouse put up with you if every week you said, “Honey, we fought over the remote this week so we gotta get married again. We need to renew our vows cos I just don’t feel like the ones we made are valid anymore.”

Better yet. For those who are not married. Realize your faith to being a child of God. Now, think of how you were as a child with your parents. Can you imagine your mom saying, “Alright, crawl back in my vagina and be reborn. You are no child of mine unless I re-birth you. I just don’t feel like you are my child anymore since you spilled that milk.”

I realize some have had shitty marriages and/or childhoods, but do you get what I am saying here? Once we became the bride of Christ/children of God, that bond became safe and secure. If you note the scripture above it says, “You have left God’s grace” not the other way around. God doesn’t leave you, nor will he forsake you. Sound familiar?

So just like a marriage or even the act of being someone’s child. The only way to stop being in the relationship is for YOU to make a conscious decision to walk away. It’s when you say, I am out of here. You make the choice. So you don’t lose salvation. You walk away from it. You make a decision to cut ties with the very thing that gives you life.

So then I have heard people say, “Yeah, but you can sin so much that you just stop believing in Jesus and then that’s how you lose your faith.”
No, no! What does the word of God say?

“Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep. No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Rom 8:35-39)

So that argument is out.
And then what of sin? I mean, I still mess up. I still do things I shouldn’t do. Look at things I shouldn’t see. Speak things I shouldn’t say. Listen to things I shouldn’t hear….
Well, first understand what sin is.

Yes, word of God….
“When he (The Holy Spirit/Comforter) comes, he'll expose the error of the godless world's view of sin, righteousness, and judgment: He'll show them that their refusal to believe in me is their basic sin; that righteousness comes from above, where I am with the Father, out of their sight and control; that judgment takes place as the ruler of this godless world is brought to trial and convicted.” (John 16:8-11)

So we MUST understand this. Sin is not the act of doing ‘bad things’. Sin is the act of not believing in Christ and what he did. Sin is acts that contradict our belief system in Christ and what he did. Sin is us saying we are ‘christians’ yet running to God to repent. If we truly believed in God we wouldn’t repent of sins in the manner we do.

Example: “Jesus, please forgive me for gratifying myself to those images on the computer earlier. I know it was wrong and I still did it. Please forgive my sins.”

That prayer is breaking the validity of what Christ did at the cross. You are saying, ‘God, forgive me for doing that. I do not believe that your son’s blood was sufficient for that particular sin. So please forgive me.”
Understand that your sins are forgiven. Yesterday’s, today’s and the one’s you will commit in the future. That’s why the word, YES THE WORD, says “Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever.” His work at the cross was the final sacrifice. That’s why when he gave up his spirit he said, “It is FINISHED!”

So, when your spirit feels bad for something you are doing, going to do, or have done. Reference the word of God.
“… if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins…“ (1John 2:1-2)
How awesome is that. You “sin” and Jesus is like, “It’s cool, I got this covered.”

But David, I still feel the need to pray and get it off my chest.
Me too!
I am just saying, change your tongue.

Example: “God, I thank you for your son Jesus. I thank you for His work at the cross. Because of him, I am righteous in your eyes. Jesus, I am sorry if I acted in any way that would have shown a disbelief in you. But I bless you and your father because you are both faithful and you do not lie!”

And this inevitably leads to the discussion of….
“Well David, if this is true, then I guess we all have a credit card to do whatever the hell we want whenever the hell we want!”
No No No!

Word of God: “So what should we do? Should we sin because we are under grace and not under law? No! Surely you know that when you give yourselves like slaves to obey someone, then you are really slaves of that person. The person you obey is your master. You can follow sin, which brings spiritual death, or you can obey God, which makes you right with him.” (Rom 6:15,16)

So you see, as you begin to understand grace, what it covers and how awesome it is, you will fall more and more in love with the God who made it available. You will want to honor the man named Jesus who took the fall for us all. And you won’t “try to be good” to earn righteousness or be holy. You will just flat out be a better person because as you recognize love, love overcomes you and it becomes your master. Suddenly, all “those things” you think are sin become revealed. They are not sin. And God is not damning you because you do them. They are merely road blocks, and they are only slowing down God’s love from reaching you. They are only bringing a self guilt that makes things so muddy that we feel separated from his love. And his love overwhelms us to show us that “those things” aren’t worth the guilt they bring.

I assure you. When you truly repent. Truly experience metanoia. Literally, put it to action in metamorphisis. Your repentance. Your change of direction. Your change of mind begins to set you free of your religion and your shortcomings. You begin to understand Love and you begin to crave it. Suddenly, the “evil” you do seems less desirable. And even when you succumb to the temptations of your flesh, you don’t let it ruin your day, your week, or your life. You simply keep walking, knowing that Christ has already paid the price and that nothing can separate you from his Love. When you walk in his grace you understand that when you “mess up” the only thing that suffers is your emotions. You are still Christ’s Bride. You are still God’s Child.

I’m just sayin…