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Now repentance, and this is a big one for me, there's a lot of false teachings about repentance in regards to salvation and just understanding what the word even means. The word repent just means to change or to turn. That's it. We have to understand what it means in the context that it's used because in the Bible it's used in multiple ways. There's different reasons that God uses the word repent in the Bible. Sometimes, in the majority of the times in the Old Testament, God is the one repenting. See, most people have this concept that repent means turn from your sin. Repent doesn't mean turn from your sin. If it says in context repentance from sin, then yeah, in that context that's what it's talking about. But just the word all alone by itself does not mean turn from your sin. God's not a sinner, and we see all throughout the Old Testament God repenting. He repents of things that he was going to do. He changes his mind. He was going to do this. He was going to destroy the people of Israel, but Moses interceded for him, so he changed his mind and said, okay, I won't do it. That's what repentance is very, very briefly in a nutshell. Again, an entire sermon all by itself can be made out of this. It's not a requirement for us to turn from all of our sins in order to be saved. What is required is to put our faith on Christ to be saved. Turning from all of our sins, I mean, think about that. What does that really mean? If I were to turn from all of my sins and if I truly did turn from my sins, would I do them again? Not if I truly did. If I truly just said, I am turning from my life of sin. I would either sin again, which would prove I didn't turn from my life from sin, or I would not sin again, and I truly did sin. To say that we have to turn from our sin to be saved is not true. We need to accept the free gift. We need to receive Christ as our Savior. That's what we need to do. We still have this flesh. So what they say about repentance is this. They say, by it a sinner out of the sight and sense, not only of the danger, but also the filthiness and odiousness of his sins, as contrary to the holy nature and righteous law of God, and upon the apprehension of his mercy in Christ, to such as our penitent, so grieves for," penitent is just, you're kind of sorry for it or you're grieving over it, so grieves for and hates his sins as to turn from them all unto God, purposing and endeavoring to walk with him in all the ways of his commandments. And this is one of the places where they talk out of both sides of their mouths, because they'll say this, although repentance is not to be rested in, it's not to be trusted in, as in as any satisfaction for sin, to pay for your sins, or any cause of the pardon thereof. Okay, I'll agree with that, right? That's not something to do with with payment for your sins or the pardoning of your sins, which is the act of God's free grace in Christ. But then they continue on. They'll say, yet it is of such necessity to all sinners that none may expect pardon without it. You see what they did there? They said, you don't need it to pay for your sins, but without it, you can't expect to be pardoned. So, and this is, it's intentionally, I believe it's intentionally confusing, because you can read part of that. And you'll be like, oh, I agree. I agree with that. Yeah, of course it has nothing to do with it. But then they're like, but it does. It doesn't, but it does. No. And this is how most of their doctrine is. And it was very confusing for me trying to grow up and understand this stuff, especially being unsaved.