Originally Posted by Muzungu256
i can promise u brother SovereignGrace does acknowledge the necessity to repent and believe!!!!!!!!!!!
is this even something to be debated u see???? its clear. he has spoken on it many times. this is just weird.
As always he is the cause... the new creatures the effect. The work does not say to the Potter you have no understanding. turning things upside down,
No man can comfort(repent)themselves unless the Comforter first turns them towards Him not see. He does the turning us toward Him so that then we can comfort ourselves knowing he has forgiven all of our iniquities.
I will offer what I think the scripture defines ...what it means to repent.
I who was accustomed to being yoked to the bondage of sin in a living hope am trusting he does all the work of salvation or none.So that then we can be sorry.
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
Strongs lexicon...
05162 nacham {naw-kham'}a primitive root; TWOT - 1344; v
AV - comfort 57, repent 41, comforter 9, ease 1; 108
1) to be sorry, console oneself, repent, regret, comfort, be comforted 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be sorry, be moved to pity, have compassion 1a2) to be sorry, rue, suffer grief, repent 1a3) to comfort oneself, be comforted 1a4) to comfort oneself, ease oneself 1b) (Piel) to comfort, console 1c) (Pual) to be comforted, be consoled 1d) (Hithpael) 1d1) to be sorry, have compassion 1d2) to rue, repent of 1d3) to comfort oneself, be comforted 1d4) to ease oneself
It would seem the word turn must be used with the word repent. The Comforter does more that just teach us, he also brings to mind that which he has. It turn us when we deny him
He himself repents by having mercy.
Exodus 32:12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth?
Turn from thy fierce wrath, and
repent of this evil against thy people.
Jeremiah 4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I
turn back from it.
Jeremiah 18:8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced,
turn from their evil, I will
repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Jeremiah 26:3 If so be
they will hearken, and
turn every man from his evil way, that I may
repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
Ezekiel 14:6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Repent, and
turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
Ezekiel 18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD.
Repent, and
turn yourselves from all your transgressions;
so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
Jonah 3:9 Who can tell if God will
turn and repent, and
turn away from his fierce anger, that we
perish not?
Luke 17:4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day
turn again to thee, saying, I
repent;
thou shalt forgive him.
Acts 26:20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should
repent and
turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.