Repent, Repenting and Repentance

Created Date: 3-Mar-2019
 

Last updated: 19-Aug-2025

Sections
 

1 What is Repenting
2 Benefits from Repenting
3 Secret Sins are often the Last Sins to Repent

What is Repenting

Repenting is the act, according to the Scriptures, as the step of turning away from activities that are against God that are known as sin.  The turning away is stopping the action that is sin.

The scripture have given us the Ten Commandments, as part of the Law of God, and Jesus Christ summarized the entirety of the Law with two commandments of

The following is an excerpt from the Sin topic:

 

Benefits from Repenting

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Secret Sins are often the Last Sins to Repent

The following is an excerpt from the topic on Secret Sins

All Christians, that are growing in our Faith and maturity, will realize that we are not perfect.  We also realize that we can do better in our relationship with God and others. 

The Holy Spirit that indwells us, which we can unfortunately suppress His influence because of our sins and also thoughts.  The Holy Spirit is there always for us to recognize sins and conquer the desires to continue in them.  See Matthew 15:9-20 for knowledge that our "our heart", which is our inner being's desires, is the place that must change in our life to stop Secret Sins and all sins.

Matthew 15:5-9 5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given to God; 6 he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition. 7 Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, 8 This people honoreth me with their lips; But their heart is far from me. 9 But in vain do they worship me,
Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.
Matthew 15:13-20 13 But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up. 14 Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit. 15 And Peter answered and said unto him, Declare unto us the parable. 16 And he said, Are ye also even yet without understanding? 17 Perceive ye not, that whatsoever goeth into the mouth passeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? 18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings: 20 these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.

The revelation, that comes with Christian maturity, is Secret Sins are stopping all of us to obtain greater outcomes in our lives and Rewards in Heaven.  When we are sinning then we can simply ask God for assistance and a starting point to stop.  

All sins are known and there is a great motivator in our life to persevere and conquer.  We are constantly encouraged, strengthened and rewarded by God when we are acting as we should. 

Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Mark 4:22 For there is nothing hid, save that it should be manifested; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.

When we realize that for God, there is knowing done in secret that will come to light, then the

  • Embarrassment,
  • Self awareness of not living righteously as an Ambassador of God, and
  • The potential loss of Rewards in Heaven and our life on Earth

should motivate us to stop all forms of Secret Sinning.   God will bless us for stopping, which will replace the selfish and temporary benefit of any sin with God's rewards.  Do not be deceived that a Secret Sin will give you any type of benefit, as all Secret Sins will bring negative consequences that are greater than any enjoyment out of sinning. 

Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

 

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