KJ Bible Dictionary Definition: repentance
1) To change the mind in consequence of the inconvenience or injury done by past conduct.
2) To express sorrow for something past.
3. A change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God.
(MY NOTE: A change from unbelief to belief)
Acts 20:21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
(MY NOTE: The key to this verse is found in the article "TOWARD". Repentance TOWARD God & faith TOWARD Christ)
Repentance is not a work that earns salvation. Repentance is a change of mind "TOWARD" God. For the Jew of the time repent meant turn back to the Lord your God. For the gentile that had NO relationship with God (Eph 2:12). It meant acknowledge that God IS, that you've sinned against a sovereign creator & deserve sins required wage/payment, DEATH (Rom 6:23) & that you're in need of rescue & that God sent Christ to rescue humanity.
Repent from unbelief in God, to, belief in God & faith/toward Christ. When this change is mixed with faith in Christ's sin payment & resurrection. The result will be a change in/of action.
Water baptism DOESN'T remove sin, law keeping DOESN'T remove sin, obedience DOESN'T remove sin, repentance DOESN'T remove sin.
Only faith, placed in the sin atoning/redemptive death & resurrection, can forgive/remove/wash/cleanse the sin-stained soul!
Faith result:
Rom 1:5 "Through him we received grace" & apostleship "to call all the Gentiles to the obedience" "that comes from faith" for his name’s sake
(MY NOTE: Faith leads to obedience)
Rom 16:26 Now revealed & made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, "so that all the Gentiles might come to the obedience," "that comes from faith"
(MY NOTE: Obedience is a direct result of Faith)
When Faith is the root: repentance, obedience & good works will be the fruit.
KJV Dictionary Definition: remission
Forgiveness; pardon; that is, the giving up of the punishment due to a crime; as the remission of sins. Matt. 26. Heb. 9.
Matt 26:28 For this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
(MY NOTE: The REMISSION/pardon of sin comes thru/from the shed blood of Christ.)
Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
(MY NOTE: Without the shedding of Christ's blood. We would have NO remission/pardon/forgiveness of sins.)
Rom 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
(MY NOTE: God sent Christ to be a propitiation/atoning/reconciliation, thru faith placed in his Christ's blood. Whereby, Declaring Christ's righteousness"" for the remission/pardon/forgiveness of sins.)
2 Cor 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
(MY NOTE: When the believer places their faith in Christs sin atoning death & resurrection. He becomes the righteousness of God in/thru Christ)
1) To change the mind in consequence of the inconvenience or injury done by past conduct.
2) To express sorrow for something past.
3. A change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God.
(MY NOTE: A change from unbelief to belief)
Acts 20:21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
(MY NOTE: The key to this verse is found in the article "TOWARD". Repentance TOWARD God & faith TOWARD Christ)
Repentance is not a work that earns salvation. Repentance is a change of mind "TOWARD" God. For the Jew of the time repent meant turn back to the Lord your God. For the gentile that had NO relationship with God (Eph 2:12). It meant acknowledge that God IS, that you've sinned against a sovereign creator & deserve sins required wage/payment, DEATH (Rom 6:23) & that you're in need of rescue & that God sent Christ to rescue humanity.
Repent from unbelief in God, to, belief in God & faith/toward Christ. When this change is mixed with faith in Christ's sin payment & resurrection. The result will be a change in/of action.
Water baptism DOESN'T remove sin, law keeping DOESN'T remove sin, obedience DOESN'T remove sin, repentance DOESN'T remove sin.
Only faith, placed in the sin atoning/redemptive death & resurrection, can forgive/remove/wash/cleanse the sin-stained soul!
Faith result:
Rom 1:5 "Through him we received grace" & apostleship "to call all the Gentiles to the obedience" "that comes from faith" for his name’s sake
(MY NOTE: Faith leads to obedience)
Rom 16:26 Now revealed & made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, "so that all the Gentiles might come to the obedience," "that comes from faith"
(MY NOTE: Obedience is a direct result of Faith)
When Faith is the root: repentance, obedience & good works will be the fruit.
KJV Dictionary Definition: remission
Forgiveness; pardon; that is, the giving up of the punishment due to a crime; as the remission of sins. Matt. 26. Heb. 9.
Matt 26:28 For this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
(MY NOTE: The REMISSION/pardon of sin comes thru/from the shed blood of Christ.)
Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
(MY NOTE: Without the shedding of Christ's blood. We would have NO remission/pardon/forgiveness of sins.)
Rom 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
(MY NOTE: God sent Christ to be a propitiation/atoning/reconciliation, thru faith placed in his Christ's blood. Whereby, Declaring Christ's righteousness"" for the remission/pardon/forgiveness of sins.)
2 Cor 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
(MY NOTE: When the believer places their faith in Christs sin atoning death & resurrection. He becomes the righteousness of God in/thru Christ)