Daily Repentance Vs. One-time Repentance?

[seed_time_harvest]

Would you be 'unforgiven' if you simply acknowledged regret and determined to do better in the future.... OR is there some sort of officially sanctioned ritual to perform (like the Catholics do) to have your position of forgiven sonship or daughtership reinstated?

Do you think you are 'unforgiven' from the moment of doing something wrong, until by your own actions, you ask to have Him clear the slate again?

Well said,some believe they are not forgiven unless they perform a spiritual requirement every time they sin.

GOD looks at the heart,man looks at the outward man.

 

[LanceA]

I guess for me I confess my sin. I'm not saying we have to but it feels good to verbally confess something I have done. Now I don't do this with a priest but between me and the Lord. If my sin is against another individual I try to build the courage to tell them. I just think it is a good practice.

 

[Willie-T]

I guess for me I confess my sin. I'm not saying we have to but it feels good to verbally confess something I have done. Now I don't do this with a priest but between me and the Lord. If my sin is against another individual I try to build the courage to tell them. I just think it is a good practice.

And that, Sir, is the way the word of God is supposed to be taught. Quite a mature attitude.

 

[LanceA]

And that, Sir, is the way the word of God is supposed to be taught. Quite a mature attitude.

Thanks Willie. I think people make this entire Christian thing too difficult. Yes we need to live a certain way but it doesn't mean we are all going to go about living that way identical to the next person. Each of us has to be accountable to God and to ourselves in our own way.

 

[RickyZ]

Well said,some believe they are not forgiven unless they perform a spiritual requirement every time they sin.

And most need to see that it's not an issue of forgiveness, but of entanglement.

 

[blue_ladybug]

Could you please clarify this a little more, Ricky?

And most need to see that it's not an issue of forgiveness, but of entanglement.

 

[OwzK]

In my opinion daily repentance. Because when we sin, it isn't ok, it goes against God's law. Yes we are forgiven because of how Jesus died on the cross for our sins, but we can't take advantage of that and sin as we like. Besides, when we sin, wether intentional or not, it is a mistake. So in my opinion, from my morals I'd say pray to God to apologise for the sin we committed.

Maybe there are scriptures which show that one time repentance is ok, don't know, haven't finished reading the Bible yet. But in my opinion if we do mistakes (sin) wether intentional or not, they are sin. And for that, we must apologise and try to live God's way (even though it is impossible to be sinless for a human).

 

[Stunnedbygrace]

I sin on a weekly basis.. lol.. And I usually feel compelled to repent each time. But back to the title question: DO we need to continually repent, or are we "covered" by Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, with no need for further repentance?

Just because I know my husband will forgive me for snapping at him impatiently, does this make me not feel sorry for the impatience I had toward him? What IS impatience, exactly? Isn't it a type of...self-care and self-regard and self-love? I wanted him to shut up, so I rolled my eyes and snapped at him. I wanted him to shut up so I could say what I wanted to say. I was putting myself first and was acting arrogantly. Should I just say, oh, but we've been together 20 years and I know him, he will forgive me? Or should I go and say, I'm sorry for how I acted. I was feeling very impatient and annoyed and I was acting horribly?

So if I don't talk with my husband about how I acted and how I regret it, it's not right. Doesn't he deserve for me to treat him how I hope he would treat me if I was going on and on about something and being bothersome?

If I don't turn from my self regard and turn from myself back to God, it is doubtful that I will ask for help with my impatience. And if I don't ask for the help I need, how will I improve? I will just let the whole thing slide instead of asking for the help I need. Then the next time I become impatient, I will not even really think about it or about why it happens or what is going on in my heart because the last time, I ended up hardening my heart a little more in that matter by not dealing with it.

In my experience, to pray about the lack of love and the ugly self love I saw in myself at my impatience and arrogance, causes God to answer my prayer for help by sending a series of very annoying people before me. At the same time, He will show me very clearly my own annoying and bothersome ways. And He somehow teaches me patience and humility at the same time. He is amazing.

 

[MadebyHim]

have repented of one thing or another every day since this thread came up, not bragging just confessing. Help us all Father, in Christ Jesus name i ask. Thank You Father.

 

[Willie-T]

Thanks Willie. I think people make this entire Christian thing too difficult. Yes we need to live a certain way but it doesn't mean we are all going to go about living that way identical to the next person. Each of us has to be accountable to God and to ourselves in our own way.

So true. Each of the disciples was a different and distinct person with their own personalities. And they each responded and reacted differently to various things. Some were as different from others as night is from day. None of them was a "Cookie-Cutter Christian."

 

[RickyZ]

Could you please clarify this a little more, Ricky?

Repentance and forgiveness of sin to God is a once for lifetime thing. So sin has no consequence as far as salvation goes.

But when you submit to the flesh or a spiritual entity in sin, you entangle yourself with the flesh or that spirit. Confession and repentance of that sin is how you break that hold and disentangle yourself from it.

 

[royalscot]

1 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose Galatians 2

8 For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor.

9 For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.

And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.


i could ask you to read acts 10 and ask you to under line the part , ware oral repentance was used.
then i could ask you to reread acts 15, and ask you ,what law did you repent from, if your a gentile converted to christian teaching, but that would be to easy for you to understand. \0/
happy easter all

 

[oldethennew]

Repent = turn from, right?

So, how often we repent is measured in how often we stayed "turn from."

I turned from getting high twice, because I turned back once.

I turn from holding a grudge more often, because I keep noticing, even when I don't mean to, or forget, that I end up turning back to the grudge again. By nature, I'm very good at keeping a grudge, so it is more of a habit to keep it, than repent from it. The day I don't turn back to the grudge is a day I don't have to repent.

Being raised a good Catholic girl, I'm still stuck with some of the imagery I was taught as a kid. Sometimes it serves me well. Back then I was told to "lay my sins at the foot of the cross/at Jesus' feet and leave them for him." So all these decades later, when I'm turning from a sin, I still picture myself giving a broken down old box of junk onto the ground right in front of that cross. (Actually, I tend to see his bloody, nailed feet right above the box.) And then somewhere along the line, I notice I've taken it back. Then I have to put it back where it belongs, and repeat as necessary.

A few of the boxes I laid down long ago, they've gotten soggy, and disintegrated for so long, I barely remember what was in those boxes. Many of them need to be returned there often, so at least I still see what's in them. The plan is to let them rot there, instead of feeling like I'm a hoarder. Depends on when you catch me to ask me how I'm doing. Most the time I feel like a hoarder, but occasionally I notice something I'm no longer hoarding.

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feeling like a 'hoarder', and actually 'being-one' are (2) very different things - - -
it's simple, a feeling like a 'hoarder' and knowing what their 'few-options-are', as they do,
then, that will 'keep them from being a 'true-hoarder'... -

a 'True Hoarder, simple doesn't give a damn!?!?!?!
about Jesus, Husband, Kids, Family, Friends, animals...

 

[MadebyHim]

If a thought is going in wrong direction as the thought when i was cut off. Its my place to repent and turn that thought in the right direction of forgiveness.

 

[MadebyHim]

So to those that have no need of repentance, good for you and your blessing of having the perfect upright mind in need of no repentance, wow what a blessing, and i hope to share in that blessing here on earth.

 

[blue_ladybug]

So if we don't change our minds (repent) about sin, but still feel compelled to say I'm sorry to God, will we still receive His forgiveness? And is that compulsion, God working on our hearts to change us into wanting to repent?

 

[MadebyHim]

God knows our hearts and thoughts more than us. We can't fool God and He knows when we are sincere.

 

[AbigailZeke]

So if we don't change our minds (repent) about sin, but still feel compelled to say I'm sorry to God, will we still receive His forgiveness?

If we don't metanoia about sin, honestly, that means we'd still be loving sin and would never be compelled to say "I'm sorry." I mean, we'd say "I'm sorry, God" but what for? If we don't think sin is wrong (unrepentant), we'd have nothing to be sorry for, right?

And is that compulsion, God working on our hearts to change us into wanting to repent?

Based on your first question, the compulsion was to say "I'm sorry" without repentance. So no, that's not coming from God.

 

[AbigailZeke]

Daily Repentance Vs. One-time Repentance?

When you understand that sin is wrong (with the help of the law) and realise the need of a Saviour, there is your repentance. The question, then, doesn't apply anymore.

I think what you're trying to ask is if we're forgiven after every repentance or if we're forgiven after just one repentance (salvation). There's a good illustration in the bible (Hebrews 10:11-12 NKJV):

BEFORE CHRIST "And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins."

AFTER CHRIST "But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,"

You will see then that God's forgiveness does not depend on our repentance but by the perfect sacrifice of Jesus.

 

[Willie-T]

So to those that have no need of repentance, good for you and your blessing of having the perfect upright mind in need of no repentance, wow what a blessing, and i hope to share in that blessing here on earth.

You already have, but perhaps you just can't accept it.