 forgive your brother when he trespasses and repents. When I tell people that nowhere in the Bible does it say repent of your sins to be saved, they might take me to Luke 17 to try and refute me by pointing out where Jesus commanded his disciples to forgive a brother that trespasses against them if he repents. And quite reasonably so, most Christians would agree that this teaching applies to us as well, not just the disciples. So let's take a look at the passage. In Luke 17 verses 3 to 4 it says, Take heed to yourselves, if your brother trespass against you, rebuke him, and if he repent, forgive him, and if he trespass against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to you saying, I repent, you shall forgive him. So the context of repentance is very obvious here. Although this passage is about repenting of sin, we could argue that strictly speaking, it's not really about salvation. Having said that, some people will elevate this to be about salvation based on another passage. It says in Matthew 6, 14 to 15, for if you forgive men their trespassers, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you forgive not men their trespassers, neither will your Father forgive your trespassers. So that forgiveness there in Matthew 6 is interpreted to mean heavenly forgiveness that is required to be saved. They will make it interchangeable with forgiveness and remission of sins that accompanies repentance in the book of Acts a couple of times, for example. But even if we made that connection, let's just say for the sake of argument, we join those two together. It's still not teaching repent of your sins for salvation in any case. Supposing that Luke 17 was a salvific requirement, it doesn't teach repent of your sins to be saved because it is not about you repenting. It is about forgiving a brother who has repented. Now when it comes to various Bible passages about forgiveness, most people make the mistake of thinking that that only ever refers to forgiveness of all of your sins for the sake of salvation and everlasting life. But forgiveness can apply in other ways as well that aren't necessarily anything to do with salvation. Now the King James Bible differs from other translations such as the ESV and so on, in that some verses actually use the word remission of sins rather than forgiveness of sins. And it does that whenever those passages refer to an all-encompassing one-time forgiveness of sins such as repent and be baptized as Peter said in Acts, even though it's the same Greek word that underpins those two words, whether it's forgiveness or remission. Now we could debate until judgment day whether it's accurate for the King James Bible to translate the same Greek word into two different English words like that. But contextually it is quite helpful that when it's an obvious salvific kind of forgiveness it translates it as remission. And in other more obscure verses it just translates it as forgiveness. Because forgiveness isn't always a one-time forgiveness of all sins for salvation. It can apply to just one-off instances of certain sins and earthly specific circumstances as well. So for example when Jesus was crucified and he prayed, Father forgive them, they know not what they do. I don't think that anybody would take that verse and argue that everybody who crucified Jesus suddenly got saved because Jesus prayed that prayer over him. Obviously it was a forgiveness only applying to a very, very specific sin which was crucifying the Christ out of ignorance, but that doesn't address any other sins that they've ever committed. And there were also examples in the Old Testament such as what's outlined in 2 Chronicles 7 in that Solomon's prayer where God would forgive sin and heal the land that was cursed by sin. But again it wasn't evident that that's got anything to do with their eternal life, but it did apply to the earthly blessing of the nation of Israel. So forgiveness was specifically in that in that particular application. So we can't use Matthew 6 to indisputably assert that forgiving a brother in Luke 17 is a specific requirement for one's own salvation. Returning to the issue of repenting of sins, yes this passage in Luke 17 is about repenting of sins. However this passage does not support the repent of your sins so-called gospel message. Actually it completely utterly refutes it. Now as kind of a small disclaimer I should point out that this does depend on how exactly you define repent of your sins because different people define it in different ways. And that is another video for another day. But there are some people who just say well it just means to be sorry for your sins or well it's not enough to confess your sins you actually have to turn from your sins so you have to have a changed lifestyle. Well Luke 17 completely refutes this idea especially if we cross reference it with Matthew 6. So in the Matthew 6 passage we might assume that God is placing an expectation on us to forgive men and he will likewise forgive us. The logical understanding and conclusion here is that God is holding us to the same standard of forgiveness that he holds himself. God is not somehow holding us to a different standard to himself here. God is holding us to the same standard of forgiveness that he applies to himself. It stands to reason then based on Matthew 6 that the standard by which we must forgive others is the same standard by which God will forgive us. It would be utterly absurd to expect God to hold flawed sinful human beings to a higher standard of forgiveness than his perfect self. Why does that matter you ask? Well it's because of how repentance of the trespassing brother is defined in Luke 17 and the measuring line by which you are commanded to forgive your brother according to the specific standard of repenting of sins that he is accountable for. In Luke 17 verse 3 we are only commanded to forgive a brother if he repents and this is assuming that you have rebuked him. But we are not told in this verse how his repentance must be made evident, i.e. does he just need to apologize or does he actually need to make restitution? We don't have such context here. Even after forgiveness is applied according to verse 3 verse 4 then explains forgiveness for a brother that keeps sinning against you and it clarifies how your brother must evidence his repentance. He only has to say he repents even seven times in a day. Now this is where it gets interesting because a lot of these repent of your sins so-called gospel messengers usually say things like well it's not enough to feel sorry for your sins you can't just confess your sins that's not repentance there needs to be a change there needs to be evidence that you have correctly repented. But all it says here is that the brother just needs to turn towards me or in our modern vernacular he just approaches me and say I repent that's all he has to do just say I repent even if it happens seven times in the same single day and so long as he says I repent I am commanded to forgive him all the same. So this is amazing because there's so many things that we learn from just these two short verses to completely and utterly demolish the repent of your sins false gospel just these two little verses are so powerful and profound. The first lesson that we learn here is that repentance by which I mean of sins only requires verbal confirmation my brother does not have to get on his knees in sackcloth and ashes weeping and appealing to me my brother does not have to make restitution by agreeing a list of demands to make up for his sins against me my brother does not have to make a vow that he will resolve to never do it again he can't even sin against me multiple times in a single day and I have to forgive him this teaches us that he does not even need to prove that his repentance is genuine with a changed lifestyle by not sinning against me any further all he has to do is say that he repents this is literally the only evidence I have that he repents he just turns to me and tells me I repent in our modern vernacular this might be like a simple verbal apology the second lesson that we learn is that your brother may sin against you multiple times in a single day now most Christians would agree that brother means brother in the faith not particularly a blood relative repentance preachers tell you that you have to turn from sins to be safe so logically you have to turn from sin to be adopted into the family of God and countered among the brethren but if both my brother and I turned from our sins to be saved hence why we are now brothers in the first place then he should not be sinning against me seven times in one day he should have repented of his sins and showed his repentance with a changed life if he keeps sinning against me and his repentance is not genuine how is he then my brother notice that Jesus said day not week or year a brother in Christ who is justified sanctified saved and sealed in the name of the Lord Jesus might sin against you seven times in a single day let that sink in the third lesson that we learn is that I am commanded to forgive my brother just because he said I repent my brother does not have to prove that his repentance is genuine and bring forth works meet for repentance he doesn't have to demonstrate a change lifestyle or attitude towards me he doesn't evidently have to make any restitution necessarily all he has to do is say he repents that's it that is the standard on requirement to obtain my forgiveness so these three lessons teaches just how absurd and how ridiculous the repent of your sins gospel message really is think about this if it is not enough to say sorry for our sins why does my brother only have to say that he repents why doesn't he have to prove his repentance is genuine before I forgive him if we had to repent of sins to become brothers in Christ why is he sinning against me seven times in one day and here is the big question why does God expect me to forgive my brother seven times in a single day just because he says he repents but I must genuinely repent of my sins for God to forgive me if it is not enough to confess sins or apologize for sinning for God's forgiveness why would God have higher expectations of a fallen sinful man than for his own holy self well the answer is simple it's because the whole repent of your sins gospel is a fraud it's the whole thing is complete nonsense and it's so nonsensical that even two small verses that are actually about repenting of sin completely demolish this doctrine it's completely and utterly false this is no nonsense Christianity reminding you that nowhere in the bible does it say repent of your sins to be saved