When you repent and re-commit the same sin again...
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Stop it right now! Do that again and youve booked a one way ticket to Hell! ..............
no sorry cant help you..if its only masturbation dont beat yourself........up. unless you are doing it 10 times a day then yeah you need some prayers. i forgive you. hows that? there are worse sins...like lack of integrity.
no sorry cant help you..if its only masturbation dont beat yourself........up. unless you are doing it 10 times a day then yeah you need some prayers. i forgive you. hows that? there are worse sins...like lack of integrity.
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the simple solution is: just stop it. sounds easier said than done but its really easy just dont do it again. have self-control
few verses about it:
1Co 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1Pe 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
Col 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Col 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Col 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Col 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Gal 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
few verses about it:
1Co 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1Pe 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
Col 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Col 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Col 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Col 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Gal 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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This is a vicious cycle. But it has to stop. There is probably a number of reasons why a person is in this cycle.
1) They like the sin - so this person needs to bring themselves to hate it. To see it as God sees it.
2) Pray for the Fear of the Lord - many times someone decides to just let go and do the sin anyway, because they may think that judgement delayed is judgement denied. This is not the case. Judgement delayed is God's mercy, wanting you to judge yourself and come to a true repentance. God desires mercy and not sacrifice. But stubborn unrepentance will eventually lead to the worst outcome.
3) It matters not how many times you fall, so long as your repentance is sincere. This is not the case for insincere repentance.
4) Repentance means to change your mind on the topic. Think in a 180 degree opposite way to how you were thinking. You can Pray that God grants you repentance as this is biblical.
5) Sometimes deliverance is needed. Demonic forces can oppress a person, and a good deliverance minister can help a struggling Christian through counselling and prayer. In many instances these demonic forces leave the person and there is usually a moderate manifestation (usually minor for a Christian). However DO NOT GO FOR DELIVERANCE if you are not sincere about your repentance as this could cause bigger issues later on.
6) Get into the Word of God which washes us with Living waters. Hard to sin when you are stuck head first into the Scriptures. The Word of God is powerful, and you will not want to sin, because you will feel closer to God.
7) Pray daily.
God bless.
1) They like the sin - so this person needs to bring themselves to hate it. To see it as God sees it.
2) Pray for the Fear of the Lord - many times someone decides to just let go and do the sin anyway, because they may think that judgement delayed is judgement denied. This is not the case. Judgement delayed is God's mercy, wanting you to judge yourself and come to a true repentance. God desires mercy and not sacrifice. But stubborn unrepentance will eventually lead to the worst outcome.
3) It matters not how many times you fall, so long as your repentance is sincere. This is not the case for insincere repentance.
4) Repentance means to change your mind on the topic. Think in a 180 degree opposite way to how you were thinking. You can Pray that God grants you repentance as this is biblical.
5) Sometimes deliverance is needed. Demonic forces can oppress a person, and a good deliverance minister can help a struggling Christian through counselling and prayer. In many instances these demonic forces leave the person and there is usually a moderate manifestation (usually minor for a Christian). However DO NOT GO FOR DELIVERANCE if you are not sincere about your repentance as this could cause bigger issues later on.
6) Get into the Word of God which washes us with Living waters. Hard to sin when you are stuck head first into the Scriptures. The Word of God is powerful, and you will not want to sin, because you will feel closer to God.
7) Pray daily.
God bless.
That can be a bad situation if you do a sin, and then repent and then do it again, and repeat that for a while, for the person is not letting go of the sin but only repenting when they do it but do not let it go with the intention they will do it again.
And if they think they mean it that they let it go many times they are only trying to convince themselves of that but they really know that they do not want to let it go.
But even if you hold unto sin for 5 years it can still be forgiven.
But repenting means to turn away from the sin and not want it, not sin and then repent, and then sin and then repent, for that means you still want it and did not turn from it.
But all is not lost for a person can always come to the choice to not want it again, which probably has to be an extreme situation to where they finally made up their mind to not want to sin.
I am sure if a person was being persecuted and knew that death would be the result of that persecution that they would without a doubt say I want no sin in my life and really mean it, but will God say you are only saying that because you are threatened with death, and cannot sin anymore anyway, but it would still count as you are confessing to God that you know that you cannot have sin in your life to have fellowship with Him.
When the dividing between Christians and the world becomes more prevalent as the nations come together to try to establish peace on earth and stop the preaching of the Gospel worldwide in favor of evolution is religion and people are still evolving but this time to be spiritual which is why the world rebels against God that many will stop sinning, and being hypocritical because of that for they will not want to play around anymore for they know that Jesus will come soon.
The Bible does say that some have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof, and never come to the truth that sin affects their relationship with God but hold unto sin and believe they still have salvation, but you are confessing that you do not want the sin so there is hope.
Anybody that believes that they have to get rid of their sins to be right with God will probably get rid of the sins eventually and mean it that they do not want sin for they are on the right track.
People that are new to Christianity may still want to sin for a while before they finally give it up which the Bible says we grow in Christ.
All sin can be forgiven so there is hope and some have held unto sin and then got rid of it and meant it, so keep a positive outlook for one day you might not want it anymore as your love for Jesus grows more.
The more our love for God grows the more we do not want sin, and the only solution is to allow the Spirit to lead us and ask God to give us the power to overcome sin.
The only deadly part is people that hold unto sins and believe they still have salvation.
But those with the attitude that they cannot have sin in their life and have a relationship with God will most likely get rid of their sins for they are the type of people that the Spirit will work with them.
Also no person says Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost, and no person comes to the Son unless the Father draws them, so God would of had to of called you if you confess those things so He will keep working with you for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance on His part.
And if they think they mean it that they let it go many times they are only trying to convince themselves of that but they really know that they do not want to let it go.
But even if you hold unto sin for 5 years it can still be forgiven.
But repenting means to turn away from the sin and not want it, not sin and then repent, and then sin and then repent, for that means you still want it and did not turn from it.
But all is not lost for a person can always come to the choice to not want it again, which probably has to be an extreme situation to where they finally made up their mind to not want to sin.
I am sure if a person was being persecuted and knew that death would be the result of that persecution that they would without a doubt say I want no sin in my life and really mean it, but will God say you are only saying that because you are threatened with death, and cannot sin anymore anyway, but it would still count as you are confessing to God that you know that you cannot have sin in your life to have fellowship with Him.
When the dividing between Christians and the world becomes more prevalent as the nations come together to try to establish peace on earth and stop the preaching of the Gospel worldwide in favor of evolution is religion and people are still evolving but this time to be spiritual which is why the world rebels against God that many will stop sinning, and being hypocritical because of that for they will not want to play around anymore for they know that Jesus will come soon.
The Bible does say that some have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof, and never come to the truth that sin affects their relationship with God but hold unto sin and believe they still have salvation, but you are confessing that you do not want the sin so there is hope.
Anybody that believes that they have to get rid of their sins to be right with God will probably get rid of the sins eventually and mean it that they do not want sin for they are on the right track.
People that are new to Christianity may still want to sin for a while before they finally give it up which the Bible says we grow in Christ.
All sin can be forgiven so there is hope and some have held unto sin and then got rid of it and meant it, so keep a positive outlook for one day you might not want it anymore as your love for Jesus grows more.
The more our love for God grows the more we do not want sin, and the only solution is to allow the Spirit to lead us and ask God to give us the power to overcome sin.
The only deadly part is people that hold unto sins and believe they still have salvation.
But those with the attitude that they cannot have sin in their life and have a relationship with God will most likely get rid of their sins for they are the type of people that the Spirit will work with them.
Also no person says Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost, and no person comes to the Son unless the Father draws them, so God would of had to of called you if you confess those things so He will keep working with you for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance on His part.
The sin cycle is akin to.. commit sin, feel condemned, guilty for the sin.. and then go back to the sin behaviour to alleviate the bad feeling. For eg.. drugs and alcohol have the intoxicating feeling that people may go back to to alleviate feeling bad.
The Christian way is akin to.. commit sin.. be CONVICTED for it by God .. feel the conviction and know you are not condemned but forgiven by God. This leads to focusing on God and His ways rather than the sin.
The Christian way is akin to.. commit sin.. be CONVICTED for it by God .. feel the conviction and know you are not condemned but forgiven by God. This leads to focusing on God and His ways rather than the sin.
GOD looks at the heart/motivation.If you keep committing the same sin over an over GOD will not cross you out,HE knows everything and HE knows If you are trying with ulterior motives or not.Once JESUS paid the penalty of sin for us to GOD who loves righteousness,sin Is not the Issue but Faith Is the Issue.
Romans 12:1-2
King James Version
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Romans 12:1-2
King James Version
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Those who walk in the spirit will always have shortcomings (acts of sin) until the trump sounds. We must rejoice in whatever Glory we are in. God is the potter and we are the clay. He moves us from glory to glory and faith to faith. No man or woman can change their life without the Holy Spirit. Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard take away its spots? Neither can you start doing good, for you have always done evil (Jeremiah 13:23). The scripture says before He formed me in my mothers womb He approved me.
This is why we must understand what justification is and why it is the first subject in the book of Romans. It lays down the foundation as I go through sanctification.
Justification gives me the ability to get back up from every failure no matter how many times and stand up and go through this process and learn it. Justification gives us a legal standing with God that is not cancelled because of the acts of sin. So if I fail (and we will) at this same thing a thousand times - God forbid! We are a work in progress. Remember Jesus said I did not come to condemn (John 3:17).
Justification is not what we do, and not what I am, and not what I worked for. It is what Jesus did and my faith in it that gives me the standing with God that I need to carry on my Christian experience. Sometime I do it well, and sometimes I do it not so well, but his justifying Grace will not fail unless my faith fails. It is just if I have never sinned and just if I have always obeyed.
Pastor Loren Larson - JSM
This is why we must understand what justification is and why it is the first subject in the book of Romans. It lays down the foundation as I go through sanctification.
Justification gives me the ability to get back up from every failure no matter how many times and stand up and go through this process and learn it. Justification gives us a legal standing with God that is not cancelled because of the acts of sin. So if I fail (and we will) at this same thing a thousand times - God forbid! We are a work in progress. Remember Jesus said I did not come to condemn (John 3:17).
Justification is not what we do, and not what I am, and not what I worked for. It is what Jesus did and my faith in it that gives me the standing with God that I need to carry on my Christian experience. Sometime I do it well, and sometimes I do it not so well, but his justifying Grace will not fail unless my faith fails. It is just if I have never sinned and just if I have always obeyed.
Pastor Loren Larson - JSM
Most Christians don't give Satan control on purpose who are being oppressed (2 Timothy 2:24-26). Sin gives Satan the legal right to hold man captive. Yet, considering that Jesus atoned for all sin at the Cross, past, present, and future, at least for those who will believe, how can Satan hold Christians in bondage? How can a born-again Christian be freed from the bondage of Satan?
If it's not faith in Christ and what He did for us at the Cross, then it's faith that God will not recognize. The Apostle says, "Christ shall profit you nothing" (Gal. 5:2). He says, "Christ is become of no effect unto you" (Gal. 5:4). That's the terrible problem that affixes itself to most Christians. They are trusting in things other than the Cross, making Christ of no effect. This guarantees spiritual failure. In fact, when the believer do this, they fall from Grace. In other words, the goodness of God, which, in effect, is the Grace of God, can no longer be extended to such Christians. The end result of such a position is bleak indeed!
Justification delivers us from the penalty of sin, while sanctification delivers us from the power of sin.
Our battle is not against acts of sin, but the fight is to keep our faith in who Christ is and what He did on the Cross, so we stay in His death, burial, and resurrection and are, therefore, victorious. That is the only way we are triumphant in Christ (II Cor. 2:14). And that is the only way He can work in us both to will (change our desires), and to do (give us the power of the Holy Spirit) (Phil. 2:13), so we can overcome sin. This is the only way believers can yield themselves as God’s servants (slaves) of obedience instead of being slaves to sin unto death (Rom. 6:16).
...and have no confidence in the flesh (in things other than the Cross, which alone is the guarantee of Salvation and Victory.) Philippians 3:3
JSM
If it's not faith in Christ and what He did for us at the Cross, then it's faith that God will not recognize. The Apostle says, "Christ shall profit you nothing" (Gal. 5:2). He says, "Christ is become of no effect unto you" (Gal. 5:4). That's the terrible problem that affixes itself to most Christians. They are trusting in things other than the Cross, making Christ of no effect. This guarantees spiritual failure. In fact, when the believer do this, they fall from Grace. In other words, the goodness of God, which, in effect, is the Grace of God, can no longer be extended to such Christians. The end result of such a position is bleak indeed!
Justification delivers us from the penalty of sin, while sanctification delivers us from the power of sin.
Our battle is not against acts of sin, but the fight is to keep our faith in who Christ is and what He did on the Cross, so we stay in His death, burial, and resurrection and are, therefore, victorious. That is the only way we are triumphant in Christ (II Cor. 2:14). And that is the only way He can work in us both to will (change our desires), and to do (give us the power of the Holy Spirit) (Phil. 2:13), so we can overcome sin. This is the only way believers can yield themselves as God’s servants (slaves) of obedience instead of being slaves to sin unto death (Rom. 6:16).
...and have no confidence in the flesh (in things other than the Cross, which alone is the guarantee of Salvation and Victory.) Philippians 3:3
JSM
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2 Cor. 12:8-9
“8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. (The Apostle knew it was the Lord allowing this, but he didn’t understand why.)
9 And He said unto me (the Lord responded, but did not agree), My Grace is sufficient for you (speaks of enabling Grace, which is really the Goodness of God carried out by the Holy Spirit): for My Strength is made perfect in weakness. (All Believers are weak, but the Lord tends to make us weaker, with the intention being that we then depend solely upon Him, thereby, obtaining His Strength.) Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities (because of the end result), that the Power of Christ may rest upon me. (If Paul needed so humbling and painful an experience of what the carnal nature is, it is evident that all Christians need it. Whatever weakens, belittles, and humiliates that proud and willful nature should be regarded by the Believer as most worthwhile.)”
Deuteronomy 7:1-2, 22
“1 When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you (the Lord could easily have destroyed these nations, exactly as He did Sodom and Gomorrah, etc., but He deemed it desirable that Israel dispel them in order that Israel might learn trust and faith; faith comes by hearing the Word; however, faith put to practice can only come about by experience; it is the same with us presently; the Holy Spirit “helps us,” which means that we have a part to play ourselves; that part is Faith in Christ and the Cross [Rom. 8:26]);
2 And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall smite them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them (the wickedness of these Tribes had reached such a state that there was nothing left but extermination; but God made that decision, not man, even though man was the instrument in carrying it out; likewise, anything and everything in our lives which isn’t Christlike must be “smitten” and “destroyed”):”
“22 And the LORD your God will put out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you (likewise, Sanctification is of the same process; little by little, the works of the flesh fall by the wayside, or at least that’s the way it ought to be).”
Excerpt From
The Expositor's Study Bible
Jimmy Swaggart
https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-expositors-study-bible/id399697870
This material may be protected by copyright.
“8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. (The Apostle knew it was the Lord allowing this, but he didn’t understand why.)
9 And He said unto me (the Lord responded, but did not agree), My Grace is sufficient for you (speaks of enabling Grace, which is really the Goodness of God carried out by the Holy Spirit): for My Strength is made perfect in weakness. (All Believers are weak, but the Lord tends to make us weaker, with the intention being that we then depend solely upon Him, thereby, obtaining His Strength.) Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities (because of the end result), that the Power of Christ may rest upon me. (If Paul needed so humbling and painful an experience of what the carnal nature is, it is evident that all Christians need it. Whatever weakens, belittles, and humiliates that proud and willful nature should be regarded by the Believer as most worthwhile.)”
Deuteronomy 7:1-2, 22
“1 When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you (the Lord could easily have destroyed these nations, exactly as He did Sodom and Gomorrah, etc., but He deemed it desirable that Israel dispel them in order that Israel might learn trust and faith; faith comes by hearing the Word; however, faith put to practice can only come about by experience; it is the same with us presently; the Holy Spirit “helps us,” which means that we have a part to play ourselves; that part is Faith in Christ and the Cross [Rom. 8:26]);
2 And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall smite them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them (the wickedness of these Tribes had reached such a state that there was nothing left but extermination; but God made that decision, not man, even though man was the instrument in carrying it out; likewise, anything and everything in our lives which isn’t Christlike must be “smitten” and “destroyed”):”
“22 And the LORD your God will put out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you (likewise, Sanctification is of the same process; little by little, the works of the flesh fall by the wayside, or at least that’s the way it ought to be).”
Excerpt From
The Expositor's Study Bible
Jimmy Swaggart
https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-expositors-study-bible/id399697870
This material may be protected by copyright.
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The only way to God is through Jesus Christ (John 14:6)...the only way to Jesus Christ is by the Means of the Cross (Luke 14:27). The only way to the Cross is a denial of self (Luke 9:23). If any person tries to come any other way, Jesus says, "they are a thief and a robber" (John 10:1).
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I'll tell you what has helped me Court; staying in fellowship, regular bread & wine, honesty/ being real with God about where I am at, and asking Him to help me...asking Him to fill me with His Spirit....
It says apart from Him we can do nothing...
It also says, through Him all things are possible...
We have an advocate with the Father, praying on our behalf; He remembers that we are but dust, He understands us better than we know ourselves....
Whatever the sin is, Jesus is able to make all grace abound towards you...
though the righteous stumble he will get up again... God is allowing us to be refined, He let's bad stuff in us come to the surface so that we can get rid of it ...
Keep searching the scriptures and asking Him to help you and He will.
A verse that is helping me right now is:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength...
Remember: when we repent and trust in the precious blood of Christ, this is powerful. Also the Word of God is powerful. And He is faithful.
It says apart from Him we can do nothing...
It also says, through Him all things are possible...
We have an advocate with the Father, praying on our behalf; He remembers that we are but dust, He understands us better than we know ourselves....
Whatever the sin is, Jesus is able to make all grace abound towards you...
though the righteous stumble he will get up again... God is allowing us to be refined, He let's bad stuff in us come to the surface so that we can get rid of it ...
Keep searching the scriptures and asking Him to help you and He will.
A verse that is helping me right now is:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength...
Remember: when we repent and trust in the precious blood of Christ, this is powerful. Also the Word of God is powerful. And He is faithful.
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