THE DOCTRINE OF REPENTANCE

SOME HOW IN THE REALM OF FUNDAMENTALISM THERE HAVE BEEN THOSE WHO WOULD RISE UP AND CLAIM THE DOCTRINE OF REPENTANCE HAS NO APPLICATION DURING THIS PRESENT DISPENSATION. THEY CLAIM THAT BECAUSE "GRACE" HAS "RAINED TO LIFE" THAT REPENTANCE HAS BECOME A "WORK" AND THEREFORE HAS NO PLACE IN THE SALVATION OF SINNERS. NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH! THE WORD REPENT MEANS TO "TURN AWAY" OR TO "FORSAKE "THE PATH THAT ONE IS ON. THE OPPOSERS OF THE BIBLICAL DOCTRINE OF REPENTANCE WOULD SAY THAT ALL ONE MUST DO IS "COME " TO CHRIST TO BE SAVED, BUT THE SAD REALITY IS THAT SINFUL MAN DOES NOT WANT TO COME NOR CAN HE COME UNTIL HE HAS TURNED HIS BACK ON SIN! THE FIRST MESSAGE CHRIST PREACHED WAS "REPENT", AND NOT JUST TO ISRAEL AS AN OFFER OF THE EARTHLY KINGDOM, BUT THAT MESSAGE CONTINUED THROUGHOUT HIS ENTIRE MINISTRY( REMEMBER THE RICH YOUNG RULER). THE APOSTLES PREACHED IT, THE EARLY CHURCH PREACHED IT AND I PREACH IT. " REPENTANCE TOWARD GOD AND FAITH TOWARD THE LORD JESUS CHRIST".