What is involved in genuine repentance or conversion?
Two things: the dying-away of the old self, and the rising-to-life of the new.
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What is the dying-away of the old self?
To be genuinely sorry for sin and more and more to hate and run away from it.
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What is the rising-to-life of the new self?
Wholehearted joy in God through Christ and a love and delight to live according to the will of God by doing every kind of good work.
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What are good works?
Only those which are done out of true faith, conform to God’s law, and are done for God’s glory; and not those based on our own opinion or human tradition.