Trusting Christ Brings Authentic Change

Repentance is a change of mind, not behavior. When we change our mind, being broken over our sin, then Christ comes to clean us up, it is His work not ours. Our heart has to change first then the actions will follow.

The lack of proper understanding of the purpose of forgiveness and the effects of using it God's way has caused society as a whole to plunge deeper into wickedness.

Psychology asserts that man is basically good and there are no bad people, just hurting people. This is clearly wrong thinking, we know this because Adam and Eve had the perfect Father and still disobeyed, bringing sin into the world through that disobedience.

God said that the heart of man is wicked while the only solution to it was to trust Christ and be cleansed.

Ephesians 2:9-10 "…9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life. "

If we try to change ourselves from the outside first we will fail, it doesn't last and not only do we regress in our behavior we become worse as we get older.

That's why we see so many old people who seemed to be steady about morals when they were younger but are affirming of sin now in the younger generations because they have given up the fight, they were never changed, it was just easy to go with the flow in the culture, when that culture changed, then the behavior and thoughts of the old people change with it.

When we have been changed by Christ, we continue in His Word because He is the One Who did the changing in us.

I remember over the years meeting the "old timers" who are dead now, seeming to be so strong about morals, condemning shacking up, abortion and many other things that the culture as a whole were against. Even non-believers were against these things.

However, as the culture changed to accept these sins, so did the older folks, their belief system was rooted in the culture not in the Bible or by the Holy Spirit. Since they never read their Bibles, except rarely to gain comfort for their lives, they had no rock or "The Rock" for which to have a good footing.

It was more important to be accepted by their adult children and grandchildren than it was to stand firm for Christ.

There are many aging parents and Grandparents who are mystified by the lack of support, empathy and kindness on the part of children and grandchildren. Believers who understand the end times, know that this is prophesy being fulfilled, but those who do not know Christ don't understand or they believe what is happening is normal.