STEPS TO CHRIST: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 3

Repentance

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/tW38cKjM4C8?list=PL4ByrircmXL7byOGrccow6FzaDRVol_C

Repentance includes *sorrow for sin and *a turning away from it.

Multitudes sorrow that they have sinned and even make an outward reformation because they fear that their wrongdoing will bring suffering upon themselves. But this is not repentance in the Bible sense. They lament the suffering rather than the sin.

Beware of procrastination. Do not put off the work of forsaking your sins...Here is where thousands upon thousands have erred to their eternal loss. What we do not overcome, will overcome us...   

The Bible does not teach that the sinner must repent before he can heed the invitation of Christ. It is the virtue that goes forth from Christ, that leads to genuine repentance. One ray of the glory of God, one gleam of the purity of Christ, penetrating the soul, makes every spot of defilement painfully distinct, ..It makes apparent *the unhallowed desires, *the infidelity of the heart, *the impurity of the lips.

Adam and Eve persuaded themselves that in so small a matter as eating of the forbidden fruit there could not result such terrible consequences as God had declared. But this small matter was the transgression of God's immutable and holy law, and it separated man from God and opened the floodgates of death and untold woe upon our world. Age after age there has gone up from our earth a continual cry of mourning, and the whole creation groaneth and travaileth together in pain as a consequence of man's disobedience. Heaven itself has felt the effects of his rebellion against God. Calvary stands as a memorial of the amazing sacrifice required to atone for the transgression of the divine law. Let us not regard sin as a trivial thing.

How shall a man be just with God? How shall the sinner be made righteous? It is only through Christ that we can be brought into harmony with God, with holiness;...Many are asking the same question as did the multitude on the Day of Pentecost, when, convicted of sin, they cried out, What shall we do? The first word of Peter's answer was, Repent. Acts 2:37, 38. At another time, shortly after, he said, Repent, . . . and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out. Acts 3:19....Many accept an intellectual religion, a form of godliness, when the heart is not cleansed. Let it be your prayer, Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Psalm 51:10
If you see your sinfulness, do not wait to make yourself better. How many there are who think they are not good enough to come to Christ.