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Zac Poonen Illustrations - The True Mark Of Repentance Zac Poonen · March 31, 2020 · 4m 4s
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Summary True repentance is not ceasing to sin, as that will not happen until Christ returns. Instead, it is a fundamental change in one's attitude toward sin, where the believer actively rejects it. To strengthen the 'new man' and resist temptation, one must actively engage in spiritual disciplines like reading scripture, confessing sins, and seeking the Holy Spirit's guidance.
Transcript 0:01 [Music] see one mark of a person was repented is not that he stopped sinning no but his attitude to sin has changed by that you can make out whether you've really 0:19 repented all of you please examine yourself it's not that you've stopped sinning that will not happen till Christ comes but your attitude to every sin has changed even the smallest little thing you get convicted it may take you many years to overcome 0:37 something it doesn't matter but your attitude to it is I will never tolerate that in my life if you have that attitude you've really repented but don't condemn yourself because we live in a flesh in which dwells nothing good and God in His 0:57 great wisdom when we got converted did not remove the flesh I've sometimes thought about that when we were converted that desire for sinning which we had before is gone we still sin but the desire for it is gone it's one mark 1:15 of being born again let's call the old man the old man is this desire to sin all the time that's gone the old man is killed there's a new man that's come inside us when we are born again that does not want to say it may sin but that's 1:31 because it's not strong enough like I you often use the illustration of this the less in the flesh are like a gang of robbers well coming to the door of your heart saying let me in let me in I want to steal your joy I want to steal your 1:45 peace I want to steal your purity I want to steal everything that's good everything that's godly I want to steal it and the old man in the olden days when we were unconverted see ya come right in and the old man was like a servant will 1:57 just open the door and say come in and all these lusts come in and make us come in all types of sins but then one day God killed the old man when we were born again and now we are a new man the old man is the one who wanted to say no and 2:12 now we don't want to sit see when people come to me for baptism the question I ask is do you want to sin again not will you sin that nobody can see I'll never say do you want to want to that's the question 2:28 do you want to sin again do you want to live a holy life that want to is the new man not I will not sin but I don't want to say I hope you understand the difference you understand that there's no condemnation I don't want to sin 2:46 that's a new man so even though the new man doesn't want to sin when these lusts come in how do they come in then they come in because the new man is not strong enough to keep the door shut he wants to keep it shut but he's weak why is he weak he doesn't 3:02 eat he doesn't exercise he doesn't read the Bible he's not quick to acknowledge whenever the Holy Spirit convicts him so he's weak if you don't read the scriptures and you're not quick to set right a sin that you've committed by 3:22 confessing it to God or asking forgiveness from someone you will never become strong see that's the way we get muscles you need to think you need to eat food and you need to do exercise to be strong so the new man doesn't keep 3:35 the door shut and so the lust still come in so that's how believers said but there's a difference because believer doesn't want to sin but he's so since then he condemns himself so the thing we need to do is say Lord I want to 3:50 strengthen this new man I want to read God's Word be strong that's how we will make progress and then there is no condemnation
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