Charles Spurgeon once said, "Genuine, spiritual mourning for sin is the work of the Spirit of God. Repentance is too choice a flower to grow in nature's garden. Pearls grow naturally in oysters, but penitence never shows itself except divine grace works it in them. If thou hast one particle of real hatred for sin, God must have given it to thee, for human nature's thorns never produced a single fig."
John the Baptist is preaching that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. But how are people received into it? Repentance and the confession of sin.
But there is a false repentance as demonstrated by the Pharisees and Sadducees.
#1 Repentance is not meritorious. #2 Repentance is not self-serving. #3 Repentance is not self-induced.
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