I am not perfect, I sin at times but am instantly remorseful and take it to the Lord. The point is I never stop trying. Anyone who says they have reached perfection is lying - fact!
Joh 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
Joh 8:35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
Joh 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
You admit to committing sin yet don't perceive yourself as being a servant of sin? What are you trying to say?
The Bible speaks of a sorrow which leads to death and of a sorrow which leads to repentance. Two different kinds of sorrow, which one do you have?
2Co 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
2Co 7:11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Does your sorrow work a carefulness, indignation over sin, a fear of God, a vehement desire to do what is right, a zeal in regards to the truth. Does your sorrow produce a clearing which in the Greek is "Hagnos" which means "Purity" ? Has that happened?
If it hasn't then all you have is worldly sorrow that works death, ie. the sin/repent/sin/repent/sin/repnt/sin/repent life with no victory because the repentance is not real.
Was Paul lying?
Php 3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Php 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Php 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Php 3:15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Php 3:16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Php 3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
Php 3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
Php 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Php 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Php 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
The use of the word "Perfect" in verse 15 is from the Greek word "Teleious" which means "moral perfection" and that is what Paul claims to possess (ie. the condition of his heart). The word "Perfect" in verse 12 is from the Greek word "Teleioō" which means "complete" and Paul is using it in the context of having a glorified body.
Anyone who says they have reached perfection is lying - fact!
Mat 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Was Jesus joking?