Topics: True Meaning of Repent, Repentance and Forgiveness Are Instant, Behavior Repentance Versus Faith Repentance, Jesus Chastised Legalistic Jerks (Matthew 7:15−23), Repentance Has Been Contorted, Repent Has Two Meanings, Change of Belief, Change of Actions, John the Baptist Preached Law-based Repentance, John's Ministry Was under the Law, Died to the Law to Live for Christ (Romans 6:14,7:4,10:4, Galatians 2:19), Water Baptism Did Not Forgive, Sins Banished Far as East from West, Christ Accomplished the Law's Purpose (Romans 10:4), Christians Are Branches Not Trees (John 15:5), Hidden inside of God with Christ (Colossians 3:3), John's Ministry of Law Had to Decrease (John 1:15−17, 3:30), Christ Preached Repentance of Unbelief, Law Exposed the Need for Grace (Romans 5:20), The Greek Words for Repent (Metanoeo and Metanoia), Metanoeo Means Change of Belief, Metanoia Means Change of Actions, Only Metanoeo Can Save, Repentance and Faith Is One Coin, Not by Works so That No One Can Boast (Ephesians 2:8−9), If by Grace It Cannot Be Based on Works (Romans 11:6), Forgiveness Doesn’t Requires Sorrow, Sin Doesn’t Causes God to Turn Away, Unrepentant Sin Isn’t Judged on Judgment Day

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Topics: Death, No Need to Fear Death If You've Trusted Jesus, Eternal Realm Revealed upon Death, No Christian Will Go to Hell, Instantly in the Presence of God (2 Corinthians 5:8), No Heavenly Reward Ceremony, Jesus Has Complete Power over Death, Jesus Is God, Jesus Broke Power of Death (Hebrews 2:14-15), Jesus No Longer Holds Your Sins Against You (2 Corinthians 5:19), God Remembers Your Sins No More (Hebrews 8:12), Without the Shedding of Blood There Is No Forgiveness (Hebrews 9:22), Already Seated in Heavenly Realms in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:6), God Has Placed Eternity in the Heart of Every Human (Ecclesiastes 3:11), All Things Were Created by Jesus and for Jesus (Colossians 1:16-17), Fix Your Thoughts on Heavenly Things (Colossians 3:2), To Be Absent from the Body Is to Be Present with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8), Purgatory Is Not Biblical, Mortal Sins Will Not Send Christians to Hell or Purgatory, Every Sin Is Mortal (Romans 6:23), We Must All Stand and Give an Account (2 Corinthians 5:10), Unbelievers Will Give an Account for Rejecting Christ (Romans 14:12), Teachers of the Law Will Be Judged More Strictly (James 3:1), The Parable of the Vineyard Workers (Matthew 20), The Reward of the Inheritance (Colossians 3:23-24, Jesus Lays Down His Life Only to Take It Up Again (John 10:17-18), It Was Impossible for Death to Keep Its Hold on Him (Acts 2:24), I Am the Resurrection and the Life (John 11:25-26), I Am the Way the Truth and the Life (John 14:6), To Live Is Christ and to Die Is Gain (Philippians 2:21), Jesus Destroyed Death and Brought Life and Immortality (2 Timothy 1:10), He Is Able to Save Completely because He Always Lives (Hebrews 7:25), See What Great Love the Father Has Lavished on Us (1 John 3:1), The Deepest Truth about Death

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Topics: Biblical Backsliding, You're Not a Backslider If You Don't "Fully Commit" to God, You're Not a Backslider If You're Sinning, The Word Backslide Is Not in the New Testament for a Reason, The Law Was Brought in so That Sin Would Increase (Romans 5:20), The Law is a Ministry of Death and Condemnation (2 Corinthians 3), You Are Now the Temple of God (1 Corinthians 6:11), You Are Now the House of God (Hebrews 3 and Hebrews 10), You Search the Scriptures because You Think that in Them You Have Life (John 5), The Law is Not of Faith (Galatians 3), Even when We are Faithless He Remains Faithful (2 Timothy 2:13), A Fearful Exception for the Unbelievers Who Insult Grace (Hebrews 10), It Is Good for Your Heart to Be Strengthened by Grace, Jesus is Grace, Jesus Is Grace, The Law Was Meant to Increase Sin, The Old Covenant is Now Obsolete (Hebrews 8), The New Covenant Is a New and Living Way, You Are Not Under the Law but Under Grace (Romans 6:14), If It's Based on Works It Cannot Be Based on Grace (Romans 11:6), If You Are Led by the Spirit You Are Not Under the Law (Galatians 5:18), God Found Fault with Israel, The New Covenant Is Based on Better Promises, The New Covenant Came through the Blood of Jesus, You Are a Beneficiary to the New Covenant, The Old Testament Uses the Word Backslide, The Context of Backsliding Was the Hebrews Sliding Away from Faith in the Old Covenant, Jesus Is the Gospel of Grace (Acts 20:24), Your Sins Are Not More Powerful than What He's Done, The Promises Made at the Cross Keeps This from Being Undone, Confession and Repentance Don't Maintain Your Salvation, You Are One Spirit with the Lord (1 Corinthians 6:17), Our Perfection Comes by Way of Trusting in What Jesus Has Done with His Blood, God Was Still Married to the "Backslider" in the Old Testament

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