Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.
Interpretation
Repentance involves surrendering to God's will rather than trying to achieve salvation through personal efforts.
In this quote, Paul Washer emphasizes the concept of repentance as a deep acknowledgment of one's inability to achieve salvation through personal works. Instead, true salvation is found in the act of surrendering oneself to Christ, highlighting the contrast between human effort and divine grace. This perspective encourages believers to cease their struggles against God and accept the salvation that comes freely through faith in Christ.
In practice
In a sermon about grace, a pastor might say this quote to illustrate the importance of relying on God's mercy.
We deal five minutes with a person and their conversion and then we spend the next fifty years trying to disciple a goat into a sheep. I'm not saying this because I'm angry. I'm saying this because countless people are being deceived.
Pray for the field. If God calls, then prepare for the field. When it is time, go to the field. A life lost for Christ is a life well spent.
There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.
Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize that ten thousand unanimous opinions of carnal men do not carry the authority of one jot or tittle of God's Word.
The evidence of conversion is not a decision card filled out, it's a life being lived out.
When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us.
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
One must be able to let things happen.
The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.