very true,,,,,Jesus said repentance is our first works.....
Repentance is a work of God it is not attributed to men. If we would attribute it to men we have blasphemed the Holy name by which we are called heavenward.There is no work apart from Christ working in us to
both will and do His good pleasure we could do to get ourselves saved or keep one self saved .
. Our first works (believing God) is
after we hear his voice it turns us toward Him so that we
then can believe and repent after the hearing of His faith.
He must do the “first works” as our “first love” of knowing Him who has no form .If he does not first turn us by the hearing of His faith no man could repent and comfort themselves.Again if he does not do the first works of turning us no man could repent
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me,
and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke:
turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
Surely after that I was turned,
I repented; and
after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. Jer 31:18
God does all the work of salivation to include the first work of turning us towards him who has no form .
It was because men gave up their first love… “the hearing of God” not seen by having that kind of faith in respect to that seen like Nicole of the Nicolaitanes, the sect that God used as the warning to all the churches to help aid in understanding what the word repent means in respect to first love.
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee,
because thou hast left thy
"first love".Remember therefore
from whence thou art fallen,
and repent, and
do the "first works"; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place,
except thou repent.But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and
I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. Rev 2:5
