Salvation is so we can walk with Jesus.
If everyday you do sinful things, act in a sinful way, do not know love in your heart,
have problems believing God is even real, do you know Christ, or do you have a belief
in God, but have shut Him out of your heart?
The apostles clearly state if God has come into your heart, you will show the fruits
of that experience.
My first real spiritual experience was praising God alone in my room. It was a heartfelt
lifting of praise to the King, because I loved Him and He had saved me.
So often confession of a reality spiritually brings it into effect. So you may love someone
but if you do not say it, how big is that love really.
If you say you follow Jesus, but will not talk to anyone about your faith, how big is your
faith to start with.
If you say you are a believer but have not ever spoken from your heart only your head,
you have not begun the walk. Jesus operates with our hearts, and nothing else.
I have been shocked that some know faith very well, but lock their hearts away, and
say they are desperately wicked and nothing good comes from it.
But Jesus died and rose again so your heart can become pure and clean, holy and giving
glory to God. This is a salvation issue, and what repentance is all about.