Only When We Achieve True Repentance Can We Enter the Heavenly Kingdom
Yesterday after we posted this question, many brothers and sisters expressed their views one after another, of which many people said that they should repent to God. Thank God! It is a good thing that we can have the heart to repent. But if we want to achieve true repentance, only the willingness to repent is not enough. We still need to know what true repentance is and how to have true repentance. Next, let’s communicate this issue together.
What’s true repentance? Some say, “As long as we pray to the Lord and confess our sins more often, practice humility and patience, and have a lot of good deeds, this means that we have had true repentance. But the Bible says, ‘Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord’ (Hebrews 12:14). We still sin and resist God involuntarily every day, is this true repentance?
The earliest Pharisees had believed in the Lord for generations, and they were godly in appearance and had many good deeds, but why did they resist and condemn the Lord when He appeared to work? This shows that outwardly good behavior alone is not true repentance. So how can we achieve true repentance and enter the heavenly kingdom?
The Lord Jesus said, “I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth” (John 16:12–13). “He that rejects Me, and receives not My words, has one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day” (John 12:48). “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God” (1 Peter 4:17). Herein, we see that when the Lord returns, He will express all the truths to cleanse and save humans and do the work of judgment beginning with the house of God to completely solve the root cause of our sin. Just as God’s word says, “Fully saving man from the influence of Satan not only required Jesus to become the sin offering and bear the sins of man, but it also required God to do even greater work to rid man completely of his satanically corrupted disposition. And so, now that man has been forgiven of his sins, God has returned to the flesh to lead man into the new age, and begun the work of chastisement and judgment. This work has brought man into a higher realm. All those who submit under His dominion shall enjoy higher truth and receive greater blessings. They shall truly live in the light, and they shall gain the truth, the way, and the life.”
Only by accepting God’s end-time work of judgment and experiencing the judgment and chastisement of God’s words can we recognize the essence and truth of our being corrupted by Satan and solve our sinful nature. Only when we solve our corrupt nature can we achieve true repentance and be taken into the heavenly kingdom.
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