IS TRUE REPENTANCE EQUIVALENT TO SAYING WE MUST BE BORN AGAIN TO BE SAVED?

TRUE REPENTANCE IS A CONTINUAL LIFE OF REPENTANCE AND COMES WITH THE PACKAGE OF NEW CREATION. OUR STONY UNREPENTANT HEART MUST BE TRANSPLANTED WITH A TENDER REPENTANT HEART OF FLESH AND IF THIS HAS NOT HAPPENED OUR SALVATION IS NOT COMPLETE. MARTIN LUTHER THE KING OF THE REFORMATION PUT 95 COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE CATHOLIC CHIRCH UPON THE WITTENBERG DOOR ON OCT. 31, 1517, THE FIRST 4 COMPLAINTS WERE ABOUT REPENTANCE: 1. Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, in saying, "Repent ye, etc.," intended that the whole life of his believers on earth should be a constant penance. 2. And the word "penance" neither can, nor may, be understood as referring to the Sacrament of Penance, that is, to confession and atonement as exercised under the priest's ministry. 3. Nevertheless He does not think of inward penance only: rather is inward penance worthless unless it produces various outward mortifications of the flesh. 4. Therefore mortification continues as long as hatred of oneself continues, that is to say, true inward penance lasts until entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven. GEORGE WHITEFIELD ALSO MAKES IT ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT THE NEW NATURE LIVES A LIFE OF REPENTANCE.