Rependence is not a pre-salvation attempt to get your life cleaned up.

It is not a call to stop sinning so you can get saved.

Not at all.

It is the thing which God produces in you when He saves you.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

It's been wisely said, he does not really believe who does not also live according to his

belief.

Well, you know, for each of us, there may be things we say we believe in, things like

getting proper rest or exercising regularly.

But our actions don't always tell the same story.

That should make us wonder whether we really do believe what we say we do.

Because again, behavior follows belief.

That is certainly true where believing on the Lord Jesus Christ is concerned.

Today on Grace to You, John MacArthur helps you see what it looks like when someone

lives out a genuine belief in Christ.

It's part of John's continuing study called the Gospel according to Jesus.

And with a lesson now, here's John.

We are studying together a series on the Lordship of Jesus Christ in reference to salvation.

The nature of this series is that it is from selected scriptures rather than the normal

approach that I take from one given passage.

It is also the nature of this series that it is polemic, that is to say it is issue-oriented,

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