CONVERSION vs. PERVERSION

IN ACTS 3:19 WHEN PETER DECLARES TO SINFUL MEN THAT THEY SHOULD "REPENT AND BE CONVERTED", HE HAD A CONCEPT OF WHAT TRUE REPENTANCE PRODUCES IN THE LIVES OF SINNERS. THE IDEA OF ONE HAVING BEEN SAVED AND YET REMAINING A REBEL TO GOD WAS UTTERLY FOREIGN TO PETER AND TO ALL THE OTHER APOSTLES. IN II COR 5:17 PAUL DECLARED EMPHATICALLY THAT SALVATION PRODUCES A NEW CREATION! THE MODERN DAY RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGY SAYS THAT SINNERS CAN "DECIDE" THAT THEY WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN AND CONDUCT THEMSELVES LIKE THEY LIVE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF HELL! NOTHING COULD BE MORE ANTI-BIBLE, ANTI-GOD AND ANTI-CONVERSION! THE JACK HYLES WAY OF "SOUL WINNING" HAS PRODUCED A GENERATION OF BAPTIST BASTARDS THAT HAVE NO REAL LIFE IN THEIR SOUL! WE CAN APOLOGIZE FOR THEM AND SAY "THEY JUST DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER" ALL WE WANT TO, BUT THE TRUTH IS THEY DO KNOW BETTER! THEY HAVE A BIBLE THAT TEACHES BETTER! IF THEY ARE SAVED THEMSELVES THEY HAVE A HOLY GHOST THAT TEACHES THEM BETTER! THE TRUTH IS THAT YOU MUST FORSAKE SIN IN ORDER FOR GOD TO SAVE YOU. WELL THAT IS LEGALISM THEY SAY, NOT SO! IT IS GRACE THAT GIVE US STRENGTH TO REPENT! IT IS A WORK OF GRACE, FROM THE FIRST TO THE LAST! THAT'S CALVINISM THEY SAY, NO IT IS THE SALVATION OF THE BIBLE! IT IS THE SALVATION THAT I HAVE, THAT I PREACH, THAT CHRIST PREACHED! WHAT OF THE COUNTLESS MULTITUDES THAT CLAIM THE NAME OF JESUS AND LIVE IN HABITUAL INIQUITY........MY FRIEND THEY ARE LOST. THAT IS NOT JUDGMENT, BUT DISCERNMENT. GOD HELP US TO REALLY EVANGELIZE THE LOST! NOT TO PAD STATISTICS, BUT TO SEE THEIR LIVE CHANGED FOR THE GLORY OF OUR LORD!