No repentance for God is by our own will power alone

[Ghada]

Oh No, Everyone He died for and rose again are born again by His Resurrection 1 Pet 1:3

I've heard some unrepented Christian sinners going so far as to preach everyone into heaven, just to ensure they come too...

All self-saving and justifying doctrine cards end in the grave. God will just go right ahead and righteously judge us all by our works anyway.

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

No one is saved nor justified at the cross of Jesus' death, but all are only condemned for slaying the Son on earth.

It's only by His resurrection from the dead, that He has the victory of all power over all transgressors on earth.

He now freely gives full pardon, salvation, and power over sin and death, to them that repent of all our sinning for His sake.

He rejects all other lame offers of conditonal surrender by unrepenting trespassers, who continue to daily crucify the Lord to themselves.

But after thy hardness and unrepentant heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

 

[brightfame52]

I've heard some unrepented Christian sinners going so far as to preach everyone into heaven, just to ensure they come too...

All self-saving and justifying doctrine cards end in the grave. God will just go right ahead and righteously judge us all by our works anyway.

No one is saved nor justified at the cross of Jesus' death, but all are only condemned for slaying the Son on earth.

It's only by His resurrection from the dead, that He has the victory of all power over all transgressors on earth.

He now freely gives full pardon, salvation, and power over sin and death, to them that repent of all our sinning for His sake.

He rejects all other lame offers of conditonal surrender by unrepenting trespassers, who continue to daily crucify the Lord to themselves.

But after thy hardness and unrepentant heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

All who Christ died for and rose again shall be regenerated, born again

 

[brightfame52]

Again Christ gives repentance as the risen Saviour Acts 5:30-31

30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. 31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

Two Gifts of the risen Saviour, that come from/out of Him are Repentance and Forgiveness of sins.

Now Jesus Himself commands that these things be preached in His Name, because they flow from Him Lk 24:46-47

Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Neither repentance nor forgiveness of sins have their source in man, but in Christ and His finished work !

 

[brightfame52]

Repentance accompanies redemption by the blood of Christ. Isa 51:11

11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

Now even though this may have a historical fulfillment with children of israel, it also has an analogous fulfillment for Spiritual Israel, the Church/Body of Christ whom He redeemed by His Precius Blood 1 Pet 1:18-19

18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

Now notice the promise of the redeemed in Vs 11 they shall return. The word return here is shuwb and means:

to return, turn back

to turn back (to God), repent

And the same is said of the redeemed in 1 Pet 2:25

25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

The word returned epistrephō:

1. to turn to
   1. to the worship of the true God
2. to cause to return, to bring back

Also the verb returned is in the passive voice which means:

Represents the subject as being the recipient of the action. e.g., in the sentence, "we were comforted" the subject "we" receives the action

So they were being returned by the redemption in Christ Jesus, which is their repentance towards God.

So all whom Christ died for and redeemed by His Blood, shall be given repentance and returned back to God. 1

 

[brightfame52]

All the glory for salvation belongs to God, He has done all that was necessary for the salvation of a man, including the granting of the gift of repentance . Repentance is given furnished in and through Christ because it was necessary for mans Salvation experience. There's a verse that says with Christ, God freely gives us all things Rom 8:32

32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

So with Christ He gives repentance Acts 5:31;11:18

The word grant or give in these verses is the word didōmi and means:
to supply, furnish, necessary things

So is repentance necessary for the Salvatiion experience ? Absolutely, its necessary for repentance to be towards God Acts 20:21

Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 17:30
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

But no worries since through Christ God furnishes, supplies this needed repentance repentance, and it will be applied by Christ.

Christ is a full Saviour !

 

[brightfame52]

True repentance toward God Acts 20:21

21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Repentance here is spiritual and evangelical, with a view towards the Gospel, the Truth of God. This repentance must be given to the sinner, without the gracious bestowal of it to the sinner, the sinner would never repent, and could never repent, towards God.

Acts 5:31; 11:18;2 Tim 2:25. This evangelical repentance always culminates into belief of the truth 2 Tim 2:25

25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth[The Gospel];

God not man decides who will repent and believe the Truth, otherwise man remains captive to the devil !

Mans will isnt free in this matter, he is bound by satan, the devil, to do his will ! f