Chapter 8: Repentance From Dead Works
posted by mark pierson at 8:08 AM
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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- Repentance: Articles 2,3 and 4
- Chapter 1 Repentance: What Is It?
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- April 28, 1973
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From the pen of Ironside in this link,
"Happy is the man who sees the end of all flesh in the cross of Christ, and, giving up all pretension to human merit, turns from dead works of every kind and description and rests solely upon the finished work of Jesus. “It is finished,” repeated a dying saint, and then added, “Upon that I hang my eternity.”
“Repentance from dead works,” then, implies the giving up of all confidence in the flesh, the recognition that I am not able to do one thing to retrieve my fallen estate. As a dead sinner, I cannot do one thing to merit the divine favor. My prayers, my tears, my charity, my religiousness—all count for nothing, so far as earning salvation is concerned. I am lost and need a Saviour. I am sick and need a Physician. I am bankrupt and need a Kinsman-Redeemer. I am dead and need Him who is the Resurrection and the Life. All I need I find in Christ, for whom I count all else but dross."
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 21, 2009 8:13 AM
And I to say Amen!
May 21, 2009 11:57 AM
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