What Is True Repentance That Leads Us to Receive the Holy Spirit? (Acts 2:38)
(Acts 2:38)
“Then
Peter said to them, ‘Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in
the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.’”
What is the true repentance needed to receive the Holy Spirit?
It is to return to the beautiful gospel of the water and the Spirit and to believe in Jesus’ baptism and His blood on the Cross.
The
Bible says in Acts 2 that Peter’s sermon moved people deeply and caused
them to repent for their sins. They were cut to the heart and said to
Peter and the rest of the apostles, “What shall we do?” (Acts 2:37) Then
Peter answered, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the
name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive
the gift of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:38).
Peter’s
sermon clearly shows us that faith in the beautiful gospel of the water
and the Spirit is indispensable to receiving the Holy Spirit and it
also shows us what true repentance is. We should know that we can
receive the Holy Spirit along with the remission of sins by looking
closely at the Scriptures and believing in the beautiful gospel of the
water and the Spirit.
The
first thing we need to have in order to receive the indwelling of the
Holy Spirit is the belief in biblical repentance. However, we should be
careful not to define this repentance as regret. Repentance here means
faith in Jesus Christ. We can see in the Bible that the people already
regretted crucifying the Lord. They regretted asking Peter what they
should do and admitted their sins even before Peter told them to repent.
We can see by this that the repentance Peter was talking about was not
regretting sin or admitting it, but taking Jesus Christ into one’s heart
as his Savior and having faith in the beautiful gospel He gave us. This
is the true nature of repentance.
The
love of Jesus Christ came to us before there was any self-regret for
the sins in our hearts. This means that Jesus took away our sins when He
was baptized in the Jordan River, died on the Cross, and then rose
again from the dead. In this way, He cleansed us of all our sins and
iniquities.
True
repentance means believing in this truth. Do you think our sins will be
gone forever, simply if we regret our sins and beg for pardon? This is
not true repentance. True repentance means receiving the remission of
our sins by believing in the beautiful gospel of Jesus’ baptism and His
blood. The Bible says that we should be forgiven for our sins by
repentance. Likewise, we have to believe in the gospel of Jesus’ baptism
and His blood in order to receive complete remission of our sins.
Peter
administered baptism “in the name of Jesus Christ” to those who
believed in Jesus. Jesus was baptized to take on the sins of all
mankind. His baptism and death on the Cross was the completion of the
beautiful gospel that enables believers to receive the indwelling of the
Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:15-17). Mankind can be sanctified by believing
in Jesus’ baptism and His blood on the Cross. In short, those who have
received the remission of sins by believing in the gospel have received
the Holy Spirit.
Can prayer bring the indwelling of the Holy Spirit?
People
can’t receive the forgiveness of sins and the indwelling of the Holy
Spirit no matter how hard they pray to receive it. In order to have the
indwelling of the Holy Spirit, it is necessary to believe in the
beautiful gospel accomplished by Jesus’ baptism and His blood on the
Cross. God’s Holy Spirit is granted only to those whose sins have been
completely washed away.
Faith
in the gospel means acknowledging Jesus Christ as the true Savior. Acts
2:38 says, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of
Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift
of the Holy Spirit.” The apostle Peter said that the indwelling of the
Holy Spirit is given to those who are forgiven for their sins through
faith by correct repentance. The forgiveness of sins and receiving the
indwelling of the Holy Spirit are intertwined.
The
Bible says, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name
of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the
gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children
and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call”
(Acts 2:38-39).
One
can receive the Holy Spirit only on condition that his heart is
sanctified and without sin. Therefore, we should believe in the gospel
that Jesus Christ gave us. We must become sanctified after obtaining
forgiveness for our sins by believing in the wonderful gospel that says
all the sins of the world were washed away when Jesus Christ was
baptized. Only then can we receive the Holy Spirit. It is the will of
God that the Holy Spirit dwells in humanity. “For this is the will of
God, your sanctification” (1 Thessalonians 4:3).
True
forgiveness is given not through people’s efforts, sacrifices or
inherent goodness, but only by believing in the beautiful gospel of what
God, the Holy Trinity, accomplished through John the Baptist. God, the
Holy Trinity, grants the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to those who are
forgiven by believing in the beautiful gospel.
A
crowd of people were pierced to the heart when they heard what Peter
said on the Day of Pentecost. They cried out, “What shall we do?” (Acts
2:37) This indicates that they had changed their minds and now believed
in Jesus as their Savior. They were also saved from their sins by
believing in the true repentance preached by Peter. The forgiveness of
sins was given to all of humanity depending on their faith in the
beautiful Gospel of Jesus’ baptism and His blood on the Cross.
The
purpose of Jesus’ baptism was to permit Him to bear the sins of the
world. Belief in this is the essential condition for receiving the Holy
Spirit. God grants the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to those who
believe in the gospel of the truth based on Jesus’ baptism. “Then He had
been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold,
the havens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending
like a dove and alighting upon Him” (Matthew 3:16). The coming of the
Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost has a special relationship with the
apostles’ faith in the beautiful gospel: Jesus’ baptism, His death on
the Cross and resurrection.
Acts
says that people were baptized in the name of Jesus and received the
Holy Spirit. We should believe that receiving the indwelling of the Holy
Spirit is a special gift from God. In order to receive the gift of the
Holy Spirit, all our sins have to be washed away through faith in Jesus’
baptism and death on the Cross.
According
to Acts, all those who heard Peter’s sermon, in which he said, “Be
saved from this perverse generation” (Acts 2:40), heeded his advice and
were baptized. What we learn from the Bible is that the apostles in the
days of the early church received the Holy Spirit on the basis of their
faith in Jesus Christ’s baptism and His blood on the Cross. This is the
essential condition for receiving the Holy Spirit. Belief in the baptism
of Jesus and His blood on the Cross are indispensable if one seeks the
forgiveness of sin.
The belief that leads us to receive the Holy Spirit through true repentance
Let’s
look at Acts 3:19. “Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins
may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the
presence of the Lord.” How should we define repentance? Let’s think
about it again.
In
the Bible, repentance means returning to a belief in redemption. In
those days, people behaved as they wished and worshipped things that God
had created. But after they realized that Jesus Christ saved them from
their sins with the water and His blood, they were converted. This is
biblical repentance. True repentance is to return to the beautiful
gospel of the water and the Spirit.
What
is the true repentance needed to receive the Holy Spirit? It is to
believe in Jesus’ baptism and His blood on the Cross. “Times of
refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.” If people have this
belief, they are forgiven for their sins and receive the Holy Spirit.
Because Jesus sanctified all the sinners in the world through His
baptism and blood on the Cross, we must believe in this beautiful
Gospel, obtain redemption and receive the Holy Spirit.
In
order to believe in Jesus and receive the indwelling of the Holy
Spirit, one’s sin must be passed on to Jesus through faith in His
baptism and death on the Cross. We should believe that Jesus took away
all our sins and died on the Cross in order to be judged for our sins.
This is correct faith and true repentance, which enables us to have the
indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
The
Holy Spirit comes upon those who have the forgiveness of all their
sins. Why does God give the Holy Spirit as a gift to those who have
redemption? Because the Holy Spirit, being holy, wants to dwell within
them and to seal them as His children.
The
Holy Spirit is God. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one
God. They are three Persons, but they are the same God to those who
believe in Jesus. The Father had a plan to save us from our sins and so
Jesus the Son came into this world, was baptized by John in order to
take away the sins of the world, died on the Cross, rose again from the
dead on the third day and was taken up to heaven. The Holy Spirit leads
us to believe in this beautiful gospel by testifying to Jesus’ baptism
and His blood on the Cross.
God
seals those who have been saved through the Holy Spirit. The Lord
grants the Holy Spirit to those who believe in the gospel that Jesus
took away the sins of the world. God gives them the Holy Spirit as a
pledge to seal them as His children. The Holy Spirit is the final
evidence of salvation from sin to those who believe in the beautiful
gospel.
Those
who have the Holy Spirit are children of the Lord. Those who have the
indwelling of the Holy Spirit always feel refreshed. They have a firm
belief in the words of God, in Jesus’ baptism and the blood on the
Cross. They are truly happy. Those who repent in the proper way have no
sin in their hearts and have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
The
Bible says that there is repentance which brings the forgiveness of
sins. Have you gone through such repentance? If you repent and adopt the
true beliefs, you too can receive the beautiful gospel. I advise you to
repent for your sins and receive the Holy Spirit. Are you ready to
repent and believe in the beautiful gospel that leads to the indwelling
of the Holy Spirit?
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