MATTHEW 3:8
"Prove by the way that you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God!
How can you be sure that you have repented of your sins and that you are a child of God? How can you know if someone else has repented of their sins and turned to God? This scripture tells us that we can prove repentance by the way that we live. This also applies to others and the way they act is LIVING PROOF of their repenting and turning to God. We must all let our lives prove our change of heart. How we live must be consistent with repentance and bear fruit.
Sometimes it is very confusing to believer's when someone they know has turned from God. We may call it backslidden. We only know that once you have tasted the sweetness of Jesus where can you go to find life? It may be that those celebrities that have put on a great show for Jesus, never really had repented themselves and they had never turned to God. What they have proved by leaving the Lord and turning away from God is that they are lost and separated from their only Salvation.
Your life is the real story of what you believe. What you say, how you act and what you believe is evident in your lives. Yes there is a secret inner self that can be in conflict with your outer appearance, such as the Pharisees and Sadducee's that God warned. You will not escape the wrath and indignation of God and you will never escape or flee from judgement if you have not truly repented and turned to the Lord. Some may fool us for a time, but the real person will be revealed in this lifetime or at the time of judgement. Is your life LIVING PROOF or your heart and Godly repentance?
