I have sinned (Like the rest of us) how do repent so that i may be pure on judgement day? Just left my old church, found out my pastor was a Fag Enabler.
In John Gill’s work entitled “Practical Divinity”, he devotes a section to repentance that thoroughly explicates what the Bible teaches concerning repentance. There is no substitute for giving repentance a complete study; no lick and a promise when it comes to that most important work of grace. John the Baptist said it best: Matthew 3:7-9:
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance. [Matt 3:7-9]
He knew only God’s elect are granted repentance unto eternal life. He knew only God’s elect are granted those graces, especially repentance, as described in Romans 8:32:
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? [Rom 8:32]
Peter, too, understood that God’s elect are given all things necessary for life and godliness, to wit: 2 Peter 1:3 “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue” (or by the putting forth of a glorious energy); and therefore he exhorts later in that chapter at verse 10: “Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.”
Kindest regards,
Your friends at Westboro Baptist Church