Is there a scripture which says one "repents" into Christ? The key is "in me" and the question is how do I get into Christ to be in that "vine" wherein are "all spiritual blessings in heavenly places IN CHRIST", Eph.1:3 (emp. mine)
The answer to how someone gets to be "in Christ" is believe, which means
obey the Gospel.
in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those
who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
and again
8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written:
“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,
Who bring glad tidings of good things!”
16
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?” 17 So then faith
comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:8-16
Believing the Gospel, means obeying the Gospel.
The way we obey the Gospel, which says,
Repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand, is to confess Jesus as Lord.
Repent is the command of the Gospel.
Repent means to
turn to God.
If you are called to
turn to God, then by default you are
called to turn from Satan as your lord.
- The way that your express this obedience of faith, concerning the Gospel is to confess Jesus as Lord.
This is what grants the
believer/obeyer of the Gospel, the forgiveness of sins.
Peter replied, “
Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:38
Peter did not say "repent of your sins".
A person can not "stop sinning" without the born again new Nature empowered by the Holy Spirit.
The way we are granted this, is by repenting, which means
turning away from Satan and his kingdom, and turning to God, and confessing Jesus as Lord.
This is plainly what the Lord Jesus Christ taught to and commissioned Paul to do.
15 So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. 16 But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will yet reveal to you. 17 I will deliver you from the
Jewish people, as well as
from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you, 18 to open their eyes,
in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.’
Acts 26:15-18
Repent is about being transferred from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of God.
It's about changing who you serve, as your Lord.
The Gospel of the kingdom is about changing the kingdom your are in, by changing the lord you serve.
This is done by obeying the Gospel.
JLB
