New Birth Repentance

The repentance God requires for reconciliation is: ‘repentance toward God (Acts 20:21).’ The direction and subject of the turn are defined as ‘toward God’. There are other subjects of repentance in the Scripture, but the one required for reconciliation has God as the focal point of our turn. Repentance toward God is a refocusing of our life to a new source, a reversal of our concept as to the very purpose for existence. It is an undoing of Adam‘s decision to live independently of his maker.

True repentance, transplants our heart in God’s garden. It surrenders up the command of the soul to the Creator of the soul. True repentance transplants our heart in God’s garden. It’ surrenders up the command of the soul to the Creator of the soul. True repentance takes route in Jesus Christ. It is the relationship of the branch to the vine.

True repentance is not an event in one’s history; it is the beginning of a new history. It is not something you do once; it is a relationship into which you enter. It is the point of which life begins and the conscious footing on which it continues.

After we have repented to God (God has become the center of our focus) God himself will lead us into repenting from our habits of sin. Though repentance has God at its focus, and not sin, one can be sure that a union with God will immediately displace all known sin.

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3:3

Taken from By Divine Design by Michael Pearl

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