I would say to repent is a work. And we are not saved by repenting or kept by repenting as a work of us that we could do.
That would be a boast.
This is as if we did not first receive it from God who must turn us first towards Him, giving us spiritual ears so to hear His spiritual words that then we can repent. The man without the Spirit of Christ simply will not hear and therefore not truly repent. There is nothing that turned Him so that he could.
We begin with a work of the Spirit as the first work of God working in us and continual all the way to the end in the same manner. Answering an alter call does not make a person a Christian anymore than splashing water on their body. There is no work to include believing God that we can reconcile as coming after our own mind and heart. We are not to lean on our own understanding as if it came from God.
As Jesus said in John 6 This is the “work of God”, (and therefore not of us) that ye believe on him by Him whom he hath sent. It is not our work towards God by believing our own mind that does save .
Salvation it is not of ourselves lest any man boast and say it was there intellect making a good decision that saved them and not God giving us ears to hear.
Believing, having the faith of another as in this case is a work of God. Therefore no man can repent unless God does the first work of turning us by giving us ears to hear..
This is not only when we sin in unbelief when we do deny Christ. But also as we learn and repent of a doctrine we find is not working. That work is attributed to the same spirit of faith, Christ in us. For it is not only that he teaches us but he brings to mind the things he has taught us. This leaves our memory out of the equation, as a work we could do. He must increase as we continue to decrease . For a long time the words (and bring all things to your remembrance, “whatsoever I have said unto you”.) I seemed to gloss over that phrase .Then one day it seemed to jump out .that was a form of repenting as God turned me giving me a ear, I did believe his work wotking in me to both will and do His good pleasure. Which again was to believe God.
It’s not our hearts as the source of our own memory that gives us comfort. There is no room to boast in the flesh.
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, “whatsoever I have said unto you”.
This leaves us no wiggle room to boast in any way of something we have received from God as if we had not of received it fully from Him.
I suggest below in regard to leaving our first love. We have left our relationship with the Spirit of Christ perhaps by boasting in another person, having faith in respect to them or again having it in respect to our own selves. To remember is to act or work in accordance to.Not simplt to recall a matter but move to perform it. In this case it is from where we have fallen by denying Christ the glory. It is that which should turn us so that then, seeing he did the first work of turning us we can repent and believe God , the first work of God working in us, as he said: and do the first works
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.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. Rev 2:2
That would be a boast.
This is as if we did not first receive it from God who must turn us first towards Him, giving us spiritual ears so to hear His spiritual words that then we can repent. The man without the Spirit of Christ simply will not hear and therefore not truly repent. There is nothing that turned Him so that he could.
We begin with a work of the Spirit as the first work of God working in us and continual all the way to the end in the same manner. Answering an alter call does not make a person a Christian anymore than splashing water on their body. There is no work to include believing God that we can reconcile as coming after our own mind and heart. We are not to lean on our own understanding as if it came from God.
As Jesus said in John 6 This is the “work of God”, (and therefore not of us) that ye believe on him by Him whom he hath sent. It is not our work towards God by believing our own mind that does save .
Salvation it is not of ourselves lest any man boast and say it was there intellect making a good decision that saved them and not God giving us ears to hear.
Believing, having the faith of another as in this case is a work of God. Therefore no man can repent unless God does the first work of turning us by giving us ears to hear..
This is not only when we sin in unbelief when we do deny Christ. But also as we learn and repent of a doctrine we find is not working. That work is attributed to the same spirit of faith, Christ in us. For it is not only that he teaches us but he brings to mind the things he has taught us. This leaves our memory out of the equation, as a work we could do. He must increase as we continue to decrease . For a long time the words (and bring all things to your remembrance, “whatsoever I have said unto you”.) I seemed to gloss over that phrase .Then one day it seemed to jump out .that was a form of repenting as God turned me giving me a ear, I did believe his work wotking in me to both will and do His good pleasure. Which again was to believe God.
It’s not our hearts as the source of our own memory that gives us comfort. There is no room to boast in the flesh.
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, “whatsoever I have said unto you”.
This leaves us no wiggle room to boast in any way of something we have received from God as if we had not of received it fully from Him.
I suggest below in regard to leaving our first love. We have left our relationship with the Spirit of Christ perhaps by boasting in another person, having faith in respect to them or again having it in respect to our own selves. To remember is to act or work in accordance to.Not simplt to recall a matter but move to perform it. In this case it is from where we have fallen by denying Christ the glory. It is that which should turn us so that then, seeing he did the first work of turning us we can repent and believe God , the first work of God working in us, as he said: and do the first works
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.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. Rev 2:2