In every case of conversion there are these signs following. There is always a sense of sin. No man, rest assured, ever found peace with God without first repenting of sin, and knowing it to be an evil thing. The horrors which some have felt are not essential, but a full confession of sin before God, and an acknowledgment of our guilt, is absolutely required. “The healthy,” says Christ, “have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” Christ does not heal those who are not sick, he never clothes those who are not naked, nor enriches those who are not poor. True conversion always has in it a humbling sense of the need of divine grace.
Charles Spurgeon discusses the essential points of a genuine conversion.
A Sermon Delivered On Sunday Morning, July 19, 1874, By C. H. Spurgeon At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
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