Decide to believe G-D. If you confessed and repent...which is a change of mind..a turning to G-D and deciding to drop the old ways.G -d's grace is mightier than your sins.

DCjam12 Paul persecuted Christian but God Grace healed his hart and preach the word every were . 1 Corinthians 15:9-11 9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. @1But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. @1Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed. so read his story and see his transformation .

Good points. I also like to read the story of King David. He had trusted in God since he was a young man. He knew how to lean on and be led by God, yet he committed a series of horrible sins. He lusted (desiring something to which you have no right.....letting the mind dwell on it and allowing the desire to grow unchecked) He committed adultery and premeditated murder. He didn't just apologize to God and try to be better. He BROKE down and grieved for his sins. Not for the idea of being caught out, but because he had sinned against God. We must do the same. We must understand how wicked we are, and be broken by that knowledge. Then we have to trust and lean on him. You can't do this on your own. You have to get to know him. Faith isn't a mental trick or an energy force...it is the result of understanding who God is. You learn who he is by reading his word. When you know him, trust is automatic. It is a gift from God. You trust because you know what you are trusting in. THEN, you give your sinful nature over to God's control. When you want to do wrong, recite scriptures. Out loud. Pray...let God defeat the temptation. He can do it. My dog has no moral code. She has no understanding of house rules, cleanliness, how to stay safe in a busy city or where her food comes from. She just knows that I am always there and whether she understands or not she obeys, because she has watched me constantly and knows I can be trusted with her safety and comfort. So she just follows. That's what we must do...just follow.

DCjam12 you never will be good enough, your flesh will always sin, moment by moment, sin dwells in the flesh, and there is no such thing as a "good person"...none are good, no not one...NONE

alizarin alexander DCjam12 I know what you're point is alizarin but i'll add some things to make it more clear so that DCjam12 doesn't read your comment the wrong way...lol. DCjam12 We are all wicked sinners DCjam12. We will NEVER stop sinning while we live in this "foreign land" as the bible calls it (the foreign land would be this earth, and we are sojourners, ambassadors for God). We will continue to sin until Christ's second coming when Christ defeats sin and death completely and throws sin, death, and Satan (along with all his "children") into the eternal lake of fire. The good news though, is that if you have placed your faith in Christ and His work on the cross, then Christ's life, death, burial, and resurrection is applied to you and that is the most wonderful news that a sinner could EVER hear. Christ's perfect and sinless life is applied to you so God now see's YOU as living a perfect life and see's Christ, as if He lived your sinful life.(Hence, Christ suffering on the cross for His sheep [sheep being all who believe on Christ]). Christ's death is applied to you so now every single sin you commit from the day you were born till the die Christ returns, is paid for on the cross and God has, "forgotten your sins". He has, "cast your sins as far as the east is from the west" (which is eternal in distance). Christs' burial and resurrection is applied to you and now God has made you "a new creation". He has given you "a new heart of flesh" that now desires God and desires to obey God's law in faith and loving submission. The difference in our sinning as Christians, compared to our sinning before we were saved, will be that now that we have true faith in Christ we do not take joy in our sin any longer without either simultaneously or directly after, feeling disgusted with the sin you have committed. We grieve the Holy spirit who lives in us and we feel it on our souls. We will see ourselves and our sinful actions as evil, as disobeying God. We will begin to hate our sin and our wicked flesh and fallen self just as God does. We will begin to love God and His law and seek to please God in obeying His law and in seeking to know Him by reading His word. Just as a side not, remember that this is all after a true conversion takes place, this is not something done _in order_ to be saved. Our life will slowly start to change direction toward obedience and love for God and His law. And our lives will turn from delighting in our own sinful desires and ways that God hates, to God and His word. We will be living a life of continual repentance of sin. One of the ways we know we are truly saved is if we continue in repentance and endure till the end (which is the same thing). I encourage you to read 1 John. It's only 5 chapter and it talks about assurance of our faith in Christ. About how we can know for sure that we are in Christ and truly are covered by Christs blood. My church is going through 1 John right now. The pastors (1 lead pastor and 2 associate pastors) are expositional preachers. They go chapter by chapter, verse by verse through each book of the bible and extract the meaning of each verse, the way that God meant it when it was written. You should listen to these sermons. They will GREATLY help you to understand this topic of continual sin in a believer and the contrast between the lifestyle Christians live and the lifestyle non Christians live, in relation to our sin. Here is the link. I'll will be praying for you man. God bless you. www.bakersfieldchurch.org/Welcome/Media.aspx Remember, it's 1 John. The sermons on 1 John start on May 17th. Just click the date, or the title of the sermon and a play button will show up.

"If you love me keep my commandments"

What are His commandments? Do you go to heaven by selling all your stuff or plucking out your eye? He was trying to bury these religious folk under there law to demonstrate how grace works

"The entirety of the commandments is this: That you love your G-D with all our heart mind and soul and that you love your neighbor as yourself."

Stephen Szucs the entirety of the commandments is love...AND YOU"RE NOT DOING THAT EITHER...you don't love God with all your heart and you don't love your neighbor as yourself....you fail at that....you don't keep ANY of the commandments and you're jewish anyway it seems by how you spell God and obviously deny christ and his finished work....do you're not forgiven so all the "lawpreaching" and imaginary lawkeeping you're doing isn't gonna be able to keep you from eternal damnation....you're rejecting christ and salvation.

you seem to be having trouble reading. Re-read what I have posted. All of it. Then you may apologize. We all make mistakes. If re-reading does not show you that you have understood the polar opposite of everything I wrote.............well......I don't know what to say. .....................AN

Couldn't agree more

dylan mcphee repentance is repentance. From unbelief to believing into Jesus Christ, don't matter if you are saved or not. So in order to repent, you do not have to quit your sinning, but believing in Jesus Christ which produces quit sinning. If you quit sinning without turning from unbelief into believing there is no difference compared with these drunkards, dope heads and fornicators who repented their sin and never believe in Jesus Christ.

***** Read Romans 6:1-22 Only unsaved person can ask that question. If you are born again, the question is not how close you can go to sinning not getting caught, but how far off we can go from sinning into righteousness. But this question is not about our salvation or righteousness but our every day walk. God declares things what does not yet exists. God declared Jesus to be sinner, when He was not, same way God declares us to be righteous, when we were not.

AMEN!

either way you still have to turn away from sin