Repentance Heresies: Easy Believism VS Hard Believism

Is repentance necessary for salvation, and should it be preached?
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[treywhite]

Wonderful video my friend. Best sermon on repentance I’ve ever seen. So clear. Thank you for your service.

[SamuelJohnYoungIII]

I love your proper biblical explanation of the word repentance! God Bless you and your ministry!

[John.]

After leading to the Lord is it always important to do a follow up question right after. I like this one: "If you died today, and God asked you, 'why should I let you into heaven'? what would you say to God?" Depending on how they answer I know what they are trusting in for their salvation.

[wretchedsinnerRighteousSavior]

How grateful I am the Lord showed you to me from BtF. I've been listening to your content constantly and enjoying wits end podcast as well. Your biblical explanations are refreshing and you're very well versed and clear in how you explain things. Carry on my dear brother, God bless you and your family and ministry

[AwalkthatpleasesGodThes_-]

What an eye-opening teaching, this also help me understand what you were trying to get across to me and others in your other video "Can faith save him? No, (Not in James 2 ).
You are truly God sent brother. God Bless you

[himter]

I think god has answer my prayer for I have praying for answer for a time

[DCCentralComedy]

Quitting Sin wont save you. Quitting sin is works

[justcallrizq]

got this video and channel tru a friend in Indonesia, definitly not an easy study material, but its necessary, thankyou Dr. George

[chrislucastheprotestantview]

This was a helpful teaching to think about. I'm listening to a lot of your material since you were just on BTF, and that was a great conversation

[linrocio]

This teaching made so much sense. God bless you preacher:)

[awakeandfearless]

How refreshing! I often feel totally crazy for coming to the same conclusions because so many people sharply deny these doctrines! They prefer regurgitating institutionalized confessions and statements and overlay it on the entire Bible. How frustrating!

So glad I found your channel!

[joseoutumuro]

Thanks for this video brother George! Hope you are doing well.

[chrislucastheprotestantview]

Wow I never remember act 26:11 when I discussed this subject. In fact I read the bible several times questioning if I accidentally done this myself, and years somehow I overlooked this verse

Well I have this on a playlist, and whatever video you were discussing blasphemy on, this comment was meant for that.

[honsville]

I'm at 22 min mark now and you have Roman's 4:5. I've always wondered about this myself and I've been asking myself recently if the way men describe this is the way God describes it. I've heard many times that salvation is not by works, therefore if you have to repent from sins to be saved then it's a contradiction.

So I've asked myself a few questions lately and I'll ask you the same, I might be wrong, no biggy. :)

Is not doing something bad classified as doing something good? If I quit doing something, does that mean that I'm doing something? If God commands us to quit doing evil, and we obey, did we actually do a work?

To me this is clear, but when Paul speaks in the new testament about salvation and works I see specifically he says 2 things, works of the law and works of righteousness. Law of moses, and people trying to earn salvation by being a good boy. :)

[honsville]

Another comment, sorry, I dont meant to be nitpick. I'm at the 28-31 minute mark.

You said in this video that some people have to repent of sins but Paul taught that we "should" repent of sins. They had to but if we dont want to then we dont have to. I've heard this before too. Using very specific words and dividing the bible with them.

Well the verse you brought up, acts 26:20 says that Jesus told Paul that the Gentiles "should" repent toward God. The bible uses the word should but in this case it is not optional. If you dont repent toward God, you will not be saved, but the bible says that they should.

And one more thing I just noticed...sorry. acts 20:21 it says repentance toward God AND faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 26:20 repent AND turn to God AND do works meet for repentance.

So in acts 20:21 the and is a must but in acts 26:20 the and is optional?