TRUE REPENTANCE BY:
- Acknowledging the sinfulness of my heart and appealing to God for a new heart.
- Repenting without regret.
- Taking responsibility for my sin and taking God’s Chastisement and the bad results associated with my sin.
- Changing my purposeful behavior thereafter – WITH GOD’S HELP.
not being conformed to this world, but being transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is [that which is good and acceptable and perfect]. - Revealing true repentance by bearing good fruit.
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NEW HEART INCLUDES:
- A new attitude toward sin
- The desire to not sin and to do God’s Will [NOT in opposition to spiritual]
- A desire to do Good Works and the bearing Good Fruit [fruit of the Holy Spirit]
- A commitment toward divine nature and behavior thereof [with help of Holy Spirit] …… An interest in the new covenant, have a new heart and a new spirit, in order to walk in a newness of life. God would give a heart of flesh, a soft and tender heart, complying with his holy will.
- A new heart by the Spirit, not by the letter ……..the removal of a stubborn heart and giving you a tender, responsive heart. [mind, will and spirit—motive and principle of action].