God requires that we change our minds about sin, hate it and want to be free from it.
Those who refuse to change their mind about their sin cannot be born again. God will not save those who are not sorry for their sin.
God only saves those who are sorry and want to be changed into a new creation by Him. Those who will not confess their sorrow and will not ask God to change them, will not be saved.
This is also true in human relationships.
“If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him”. Luke 17:3-4
Sadly our wrong teaching about how to restore a relationship has been skewed by psychology, making forgiveness superficial and ineffective in restoring anything.
When we have a wrong view of repentance, that is a change of mind toward sin then we will operate in human relationships in a way that prevents a change of heart in those we superficially forgive. We remove the sting of sin that God intended to be there so that the sinner will want to be restored to God first and then to other human beings.
How we think about repentance determines how we honor or dishonor God. If we trust Him we don't look at results we look at obedience to God's way and just do what He commanded. The results belong to God, we are not responsible for someones reaction to truth.
1 Corinthians 3:6-7 " 6 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.…"
When we demonstrate a wrong view of repentance and relationship restoration we prevent people from coming to Christ the right way with the right attitude. Sadly far too many people think they know better than God, after all they were educated in psychology......oh wait a minute.....God never uses manipulation He uses truth, He commands and then He responds based on our obedience or lack of it.
Stop looking to man for the psychological answers and begin trusting Christ.
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