illustration, the dynamic of repenting and believing works like a pendulum. The further it goes in one direction; the further it can go in the other. The more you believe the gospel (God is good; he has united himself to me; I am accepted as I am; he is worth it), the more you will repent (my sin runs even deeper than I thought, but I don’t want to stay as I am; I want to trust him; I want to live for him who loved me and gave himself for me). The more you obey God, the more you will believe God. And the more you believe God, the more you will want to obey him. Back and forth it goes, swinging
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