Ezekiel 36:23-28
[FONT="][FONT=Arial][B]23 [/B][/FONT]And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT="]24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.[/FONT]
[FONT="][FONT=Arial][B]25 [/B][/FONT]Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT="]26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.[/FONT]
[FONT="][FONT=Arial][B]27 [/B][/FONT]And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT="]28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
It looks like all the things people think they have to do before they can be saved are actually the work of God. And therefore a gift just like salvation.
Matthew 15:13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
If repentance is not a gift then neither is Salvation. If a clean heart is not a gift then neither is Salvation. If being free from sin is not a gift then neither is Salvation.
But they are gifts. They are the work of God.
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