There are Christians who have in their past committed heinous sins, and they have grabbed onto hyper-grace to cover their sins, but have not repented from their sin.
Jesus is waiting with such great patience for us to repent. 2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack
concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is
longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that
all should come to repentance.
When John the Baptist preached repentance, the people confessed their sins as part of that repentance. And God forgave them. John was the fore-runner for Christ. He produced a repentant people ready to receive their Messiah. When Jesus came, He preached, "Repent and believe the Gospel."
We must own up to our sin before God and if possible, to those we've sinned against, and turn from it. We must break clean from the power of darkness, and turn from it, and turn to God, to live for Him.
A young Jewish man grew up in a Jewish neighborhood. He went through schools that were Jewish. Everything he knew was Jewish. One day he received the Jewish Messiah Jesus (Yeshua). Then came the big day of his baptism in front of his Jewish neighbors. This was death to self big time, but he got baptized in the name of Jesus Christ despite the pressure by his Jewish neighbors and culture.
Whatever death we must face in total repentance from our sin we must do it.
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