True Repentance Will Lead to Salvation Part 3

The Goodness of God Will Lead to RepentanceThe very first verse mentioned above tells us that a “godly sorrow” will help produce the actual repentance that is needed to lead us into being able to get saved with the Lord. This next verse then goes one step further and tells us that the “goodness of God” will actually lead to this repentance. the goodness of God leads you to repentance.” (Romans 2:4) On one end, God is causing a godly sorrow to set in on us so we can see what sinners we really are. However, at the same time that He is producing this sorrow to help show us what sinners we really are, He is also showing us His goodness. He is showing us that there is a way of escape out of our sinful states and natures – and that way of escape is through the Blood that His Son Jesus has personally shed on the cross for each one of us. Once a person really realizes how good, loving and merciful God and Jesus really are in making a way for them to be able to be rescued out of this predicament – they are then more than willing to accept Jesus and what His death on the cross means for them. That is why this verse specifically states that it is the “goodness of God” that will lead one to actually want to repent and then accept Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior. Again, when you combine the godly sorrow that God will produce to help start the conviction and repentance process to occur within each individual, and then top it off with the revelation that it is the goodness of God that will actually save them – there is simply no way one can walk away from such a powerful encounter with the Lord within the first year or two after they had initially been saved. This fact is telling me that some of these people may not be going through a proper repentance and conviction process with the Holy Spirit, and thus their salvation experiences may be a big suspect. All of the above Scripture verses are tying in the word “repentance” with getting saved and converted. I believe God is giving us a major clue in the way that He has all of these Scripture verses worded in that a repentant heart is really needed before one can really get saved through the Blood of His Son Jesus. I really have to wonder if this lack of a repentant heart may be one of the missing ingredients in some of these people’s salvation experiences and this is why they are so easily able to walk away from it after the first year or two after initially getting saved. food for thought.