What or where is the book's "authority?" You are not showing God's authority and His gospel is not part of your story. Strange, when genuine repentance to God would only flow from a God-given acceptance of the true gospel and from a Spirit-led reliance on His guidance.
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Reading 282—M ethod of Christian Thinking
In Philippians 4:8-9 Paul gives the rule for the thinking life of the Christian.
Have we ever given our brains the task of concentrated thinking along this line?
“Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things.”
It is because we will not bring every thought into captivity to the obedience
of Christ that all the perplexities are produced regarding methods of thinking
that look like Christianity. Strands are taken out of Jesus Christ’s teaching,
the Bible is exploited to agree with certain principles, but the Truth, our
Lord. Jesus Christ is ignored.
If we base our thinking on principles instead of on a Person we shall
go wrong, no matter how devout or honest we are.
The one great truth to keep steadfastly before us is the Lord Jesus
Christ; He is the Truth. Only the whole truth is the truth; any part of the
truth may become an error. If you have a ray light on the truth, never call it
the whole truth; follow it up and it will lead you to the central Truth, the
Lord Jesus Christ." (BSG)’
Reading 295—The Bedrock of Christianity
1 Timothy 1 :13—15
"Because a man has altered his life it does not necessarily mean that he has
repented. A man may have lived a bad life and suddenly stopped being bad, bad,
not because he has repented, but because he is like an exhausted volcano. The
fact that he has become good is no sign of his having become a Christian.
The bedrock of Christianity is repentance. The apostle Paul never forgot what he
had been; when he speaks of ‘forgetting those things which are behind,'
he is referring to what he has attained to; the Holy Spirit never allowed him to
forget what he had been. (see 1 Cor. 15:9, Eph. 3:8, 1 Tim. 1:13-15).
Repentance means that I estimate exactly what I am in God’s sight and I am
sorry for it, and on the basis of the Redemption I become the opposite.
The only repentant man is the holy man, that is, the one who becomes 989
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40 Behold,~ I long for Y~5isi~recepts:;
Revive me in Your righteousness.