What True Repentance Really Looks Like by DON BRITTON for Charisma News
For if we willfully continue to sin after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation, which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who despised Moses’ law died without mercy in the presence of two or three witnesses. How much more severe a punishment do you suppose he deserves, who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded the blood of the covenant that sanctified him to be a common thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine,” says the Lord, “I will repay.” And again He says, “The Lord will judge His people” (Heb. 10:26-30).
He is obviously not talking about an unsaved person, but someone who was once saved, who once had received the sacrifice for sins, who once was sanctified by the blood of Jesus and who once belonged to God. He said that He would judge His people.
The way anyone tramples underfoot the Son of God, regards as unclean His blood and insults the spirit of grace is to willfully continue in sin after being saved. This person will be destroyed in the same fire as all the other enemies of God, unless he repents before it is too late. God will judge His people!
“Little children, let no one deceive you. The one who does righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous. Whoever practices sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed, that He might destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:7-8).
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Just for clarity, to practice is to do something repeatedly. If you used to get drunk every day and now you only get drunk once per week, or even just once per year, you are still practicing drunkenness.
It doesn’t matter how often or how few times you do it repeatedly; it is still your practice if you do it even occasionally. If you repent, you stop doing it at all.
