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True repentance is ALWAYS followed by the fruit of obedience. Acts 2:38 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." 1 John 1:7 "But if we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin." If you refuse to forgive others, then He will not forgive you. No mercy shall be measured to you. His authority, His forgiveness, His rules. Matthew 6:12-15 "And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." God gives us space to repent. But if we waste that opportunity, we prove we are not His. Matthew 18:15-17 "Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican." God is not mocked. God will not always be longsuffering. Psalm 78:34-42 "When He slew them, then they sought Him: and they returned and inquired early after God. And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the high God their Redeemer. Nevertheless they did flatter Him with their mouth, and they lied unto Him with their tongues. For their heart was not right with Him, neither were they stedfast in His Covenant. But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned He His anger away, and did not stir up all His wrath. (Notice the LORD accepted their confession of sin, and forgave them accordingly, even though He divinely foreknew them to be insincere. They were sorry they were being punished. They were not sorry that they hurt Him with their sin.) For He remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. How oft did they provoke Him in the wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert! Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. They remembered not His hand, nor the day when He delivered them from the enemy." Psalm 78:56-64 "Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not His Testimonies: But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images. When God heard this, He was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: So that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which He placed among men; And delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the enemy's hand. He gave His people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with His inheritance. The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation." Jeremiah 18:23 "Yet, LORD, Thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from Thy sight, but let them be overthrown before Thee; deal thus with them in the time of Thine anger." Isaiah 2:8-9 "Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself [to their idols]: therefore forgive them not." When man sins, and then refuses the convicting power of the Holy Spirit to repent of it, this sin is the sin of blasphemy, thus making it unforgivable. At this point in a person's life, should breathe fail to fill their lungs, or their heart fail to beat, their eternal soul would plummet to its punishment. Luke 12:10 "And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven." Mark 3:29 "But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation."
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