“that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds appropriate to repentance.” Acts 26:20b
This will be my last posting about Acts, so please continue to indulge me. Here Paul is before King Agrippa, rehearsing before him the story of his conversion and the beginning of his Ministry. Once again, his Gospel has Repentance in the forefront! But notice what it includes; “performing deeds appropriate to repentance”, or as John the Baptist said many years earlier, “fruit worthy of repentance”.
Repentance Has Fruit!!! What kind of fruit? Well, what are you repenting of? Sin against God and His Law! Obviously then, that Fruit would be turning from a life of Breaking God’s Law, to a life of Keeping it! But isn’t that Legalism? NO! It’s Fruit!!! And “Fruit” grows “naturally”. Our Nature has been changed from wanting to “break God’s Law” to wanting to “keep it”.
That’s why being Born Again is so Radical!!!