Repentance From Dead Works

The Holy Bible, "the Book Nobody Knows," as described by one Bruce Barton, is a book of ancient stories, prophecies, and wisdom literatures. But the Bible does have other specific themes. It contains specific teachings, knowledge and instructions on the purposes of the Creator and His plan for human salvation. In the series, The Foundation of Biblical Faith, the foundational knowledge and teachings of the Scriptures and treated in-depth. In this volume 1, Repentance from Dead Works, you will learn about the meaning of Biblical repentance and your need for it; sin, its effects, how the Creator views it, and the need to turn from it; the law and its purposes; the Levitical and Melchizedek priesthoods, sacrifices and their meanings and purposes. You will also learn the place of true deliverance in repentance and its relationship with the law. The book defines Repentance, shows the place and functions of Biblical Laws in Repentance, and shows the difference between the Levitical sacrificial laws and the Laws in the first five Books of the Bible. It gives a Biblical example of true repentance, discusses obstacles to true repentance, and shows the need for true deliverance in repentance.

When the deeds of the flesh are not willing to surrender to our spirit man, the final product of our labor is dead works. As long as our flesh is the dominant influence in our life, we are disconnected from God, the Creator of Heaven and earth. Disconnection from God produces dead works leading to both spiritual and physical death. We cannot allow the unfruitful works of darkness to dictate who we are and run our life. We can only be all that God wants us to be when we put the deeds of the flesh aside and take them into the Blood to be washed, sanctified and justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the Spirit of God. There is no other way by which we are able to come before the presence of Adonai, for we are not prepared for absolute glory! Therefore, repent. Turn away from your dead works. Don’t labor in vain. Silence the flesh while the spirit man speaks. And while your spirit man speaks, listen and obey! Hear and do! Then Heaven will be your home. Commit to your memory 1 Timothy 4:16 to continue living in the Word of the Lord: “Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.”

Fully convinced in my own mind that the doctrine of repentance is the missing note in many otherwise orthodox and fundamentally sound circles today, I have penned this volume out of a full heart. I hope and pray that God will be pleased to use it to awaken many of His servants to the importance of seeking so to present His truth as to bring men to the only place where He can meet them in blessing. That place is the recognition of their own demerit and absolute unworthiness of His least mercies and a new conception of His saving power for all who come to Christ as lost sinners, resting alone upon His redemptive work for salvation, and depending upon the indwelling Holy Spirit to make them victorious over sin's power in daily life.

One in a series of twelve New Testament verse-by-verse commentary books edited by Max Anders. Includes discussion starters, teaching plan, and more. Great for lay teachers and pastors alike.

Most people associate repentance with displays of emotion that signal regret. But the emotional responses of remorse, guilt, or regret are insufficient to produce behavioral change. In fact, those toxic emotions may lead to an even deeper sense of hopelessness, defeat, and despair without the restorative power of true repentance. Genuine repentance dispenses with any attempt to remove guilt through a show of emotion. When activated, it leaves in its powerful wake the fruit of a changed life blazing a trail toward true deliverance, freedom, and salvation. This is the life God desires for us a life waiting on the other side of a door called repentance.

All people have sinned and broken God's law. None of us are good (Rom. 3:10). And as a result of our sin, God commands us to repent. But what does repentance look like? In this booklet, Dr. R.C. Sproul looks at several people in the Bible and how they give us a model of repentance. Dr. Sproul explains that true repentance is not simply a religious ritual or the resolve to do better next time. Rather, it's a spiritual conversion in which we turn from our sin and to God in faith. The Crucial Questions booklet series by Dr. R.C. Sproul offers succinct answers to important questions often asked by Christians and thoughtful inquirers.

1. For a building up of the body of the Anointed - the word of the beginning of the Anointed - a foundationHeb 5:12 For indeed because of the time you are due to be teachers, yet you need to have someone to teach you again the rudiments of the beginning of the Words of God, and you came to be having need of milk, and not of solid food; Heb 5:13 for everyone partaking of milk is without experience in the Word of Righteousness, for he is an infant. Heb 5:14 But solid food is for those full grown, having exercised the faculties through habit, for distinction of both good and bad. Heb 6:1 Because of this, having left the discourse of the beginning of Christ, let us be borne on to full growth, not laying down again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Heb 6:2 of doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of dead ones, and of eternal judgment. Heb 6:3 And this we will do, if indeed God permits. It is a great fear for going further on this foundation, because there is no point in continuing unless the foundation is in order. This foundation must of course be in every believer's life, it is that way they can find their place in the body.1.1. Repentance from dead worksTit 3:3 For we also once were senseless, disobedient, being led astray, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. Tit 3:4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, Tit 3:5 not by works in righteousness which we had done, but according to His mercy, He saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, Tit 3:6 whom He poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ, our Savior; Tit 3:7 that being justified by His grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Tit 3:8 Faithful is the Word, and concerning these things I desire you strongly to affirm that the ones believing God should take thought to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men. Tit 3:9 But keep back from foolish questionings and genealogies and arguments and quarrels of law, for they are unprofitable and vain. Tit 3:10 After the first and second warning, avoid a man of heresy, Tit 3:11 knowing that such a one has been perverted and sins, being self-condemned. Joh 6:27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give to you; for God the Father sealed this One. Joh 6:28 Then they said to Him, What may we do that we may work the works of God? Joh 6:29 Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe into Him whom that One sent. This is the works of God, leading to the fruit of the Spirit; that we believe in Jesus. But before faith in God, there is repentance from dead works. Therefore, we will look at this first.2Ti 2:23 But refuse the foolish and uninstructed questionings, knowing that they generate quarrels. 2Ti 2:24 But a slave of the Lord ought not to quarrel, but to be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing, 2Ti 2:25 in meekness teaching those who have opposed, if perhaps God may give them repentance for a full knowledge of the truth, 2Ti 2:26 and they having regained senses out of the snare of the devil, being captured by him to do the will of that One. 2Pe 3:9 The Lord of the promise is not slow, as some deem slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not having purposed any to perish, but all to come to repentance. We see that there is an interaction between man and God. God gives repentance to those who say yes to the call; saying yes to Jesus.A false righteousnessRepentance from the works of the lawWorks of the law are the deeds you do to achieve salvation