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Repentance and the Eternal Purpose of God
“Unless you repent, you will perish.” (Luke 13:5)
Jesus said, “Repent or perish.” He left no other option. If you don’t repent you will perish. It’s that simple. Without repentance your life will be lost. You will perish. If you don’t repent you can forget about fulfilling your purpose under God. Your life will be wasted. It will serve no purpose, nothing of eternal significance. Put your hand in a sink of water. Splash around with that hand. Make all the stir you want. Then pull it out. The hole that remains in that sink of water will be the impact your life will make for eternity. The hole made by your hand will perish. So will you, without repentance.
Every preacher in the Bible preached that we must repent. All the Old Testament prophets preached repentance. John the Baptist did (Matthew 3:1-2). Jesus preached it at the beginning of His ministry (Mark 1:15) and the last thing He instructed His disciples to do before He went back to heaven was to preach repentance to the nations (Luke 24:45-48). The first full-gospel evangelical sermon to the Jews in Acts chapter two has Peter preaching repentance (v.38). Paul, preaching to the Gentiles in Acts 17, said, “God now commands everyone everywhere to repent…” Then he tells us why: “because He has appointed a day in which He will judge the world.” (v.30-31) All this makes all of us responsible to repent before God.
Repentance is the flip side of the coin of belief. You can’t believe without repenting. Repentance has believing within its very nature. They are married by God and God will not allow divorce. They are each a side of God’s coin of salvation.
So, repentance is a part of John 3:16. Perish doesn’t just mean go to hell. It means to have a life that doesn’t count for anything before God. Without repentance even our good works will perish with us. Whatever you do in this life will be gone, and gone forever, if you do not serve the purpose of God for which you were created. Everlasting life is not just about length or quantity of time; it has to do with quality of life and time. Eternal life contains quality as well as quantity. It is the quality that produces the quantity... to read more click on the following link:
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