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KJV Dictionary Definition: repentance

1) To change the mind in consequence of the inconvenience or injury done by past conduct.

2) To express sorrow for something past.

3. A change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God.

Acts 20:21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
(MY NOTE: The key to this verse is found in the article "TOWARD". Repentance TOWARD God & faith TOWARD Christ)

Repentance is not a work that earns salvation. Repentance is a change of mind "TOWARD" God. For the Jew of the time repent meant turn back to the Lord your God. For the gentile that had NO relationship with God (Eph 2:12). It meant acknowledge that God IS, that you've sinned against a sovereign creator & deserve sins reqiured wage/payment, DEATH (Rom 6:23) & that you're in need of rescue & that God sent Christ to rescue humanity.

Repent from unbelief in God, to, belief in God & faith/toward Christ. When this change is mixed with faith in Christ's sin payment & resurrection. The result will be a change in/of actions.

Water baptism DOESN'T remove sin, law keeping DOESN'T remove sin, obedience DOESN'T remove sin, repentance DOESN'T remove sin.

Only faith, placed in the sin redemptive WORK of CHRIST can forgive/remove/wash/cleanse the sin stained soul!

Faith result:
Rom 1:5 "Through him we received grace" & apostleship "to call all the Gentiles to the obedience" "that comes from faith" for his name’s sake
(MY NOTE: A Gentiles Faith leads to their obedience)

Rom 16:26 Now revealed & made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, "so that all the Gentiles might come to the obedience," "that comes from faith"
(MY NOTE: A Gentiles obedience is a direct result of their Faith)

When Faith is the root repentance, obedience & good works will be the fruit.

KJV Dictionary Definition: remission
Forgiveness; pardon; that is, the giving up of the punishment due to a crime; as the remission of sins. Matt. 26. Heb. 9.

Matt 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
(NOTE: The REMISSION/pardon of sin comes thru/from the shed blood of Christ.)

Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
(NOTE: Without the shedding of Christ's blood. We would have NO remission/pardon/forgiveness of sins.)

Rom 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
(NOTE: God sent Christ to be a propitiation/reconciliation, thru faith placed in his Christ's blood. ""Declaring Christ's righteousness"" for the remission/pardon/forgiveness of sins.)
 
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