How's it going, everyone?
In this video, I wanted to record a basic soul winning tip
on repentance.
Now, this is not about how to debunk repent of your sins
for salvation or work salvation or anything like that.
Although that's obviously a very important topic,
it's not one I wanted to cover here.
What I wanna talk about is just the importance
of giving people an opportunity to articulate
that they've repented, that they've changed their mind
about what it takes to be saved.
Because of course, repentance in the context of salvation
is turning from unbelief to belief.
It's changing one's mind about what it takes
to go to heaven and instead placing all their faith
on the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Bible says, repent ye and believe the gospel.
Acts chapter 19 tells us that John barely baptized
with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people
that they should believe on him
which should come after him.
And that is on Christ Jesus.
Now, you think about the word baptism,
it's referring to like an immersion
and repenting toward the Lord Jesus Christ,
the baptism of repentance.
It is a full immersion, a full changing of one's mind
to Jesus and being fully immersed
in the doctrine of salvation by faith alone
and once saved, always saved rather
than what they believed before.
So you have to give people a chance, I think,
to show that they've changed their position.
And this is how I do that, is I'll say,
do you see how what I've showed you,
this is at the end of my gospel presentation
after I've asked the questions,
is I'll say, do you see how what I showed you today
is different than what you believed before?
And unless they're being super prideful,
they'll say, yeah, it is different.
And that's when I'll follow up and I'll say,
what would you say that you've changed your mind
to what I've showed you from the Bible?
Have you changed your mind to what I've showed you?
Basically, I'm asking, have you repented
toward the gospel of Jesus Christ?
But you know, the idea is to give them a chance
to say yes, I've changed my mind.
And once they do that,
that's when I'll ask if they would like to pray
and then we go through and we ask Jesus together
for salvation.
So this is so important, it is crucial
because you could get Catholics
to pray with you all day long,
but they're just adding your doctrine
to what they believe, to their sacraments and all that.
You wanna make sure with Catholics,
you ask a question like this
or whatever false religion, Islam, same thing,
but you wanna ask them, you know,
hey, have you changed your mind to what I showed you
or do you still believe in
the doctrine of the Catholic church?
We have to make people make a decision
so they understand there's a distinction
between what you showed them
and what they believed before.
And if they've changed their mind,
they should have no problem telling you that
and admitting that.
So again, basically the gist of this video was simple.
At the end of the presentation,
when you've given someone the gospel
and you've given them the questions at the end,
make sure to ask them this,
have you changed your mind from what you believed before
to what I've showed you from the Bible?
And that's how you know, if they say yes,
that's how you know they have repented.
And that's how you know you're ready
to call on the name of the Lord with that individual.
Yes, this is basic, I get that,
but I still think important to hammer in.
Let's not forget it.
All right, catch you guys next time.