Don't Expect a Perfect Repentance - Paul Washer

Don't put your faith in faith, put your faith in Jesus. -Adrian Rogers

One way of discerning true repentance is that it is ongoing.

Please help me lord. I want to feel convicted more about my sin

I needed this! Sanctification can slowly put us back into thinking that it’s our doing. It’s all His! Praise God! Thank you Jesus! Free me again from myself!

My conversion was drastic. Massive loads of practiced sin dropped off day one. But not as much as i wanted. Residual sin remains. Habit, accidental, lustful. I came to christ scared of him and in my growth i have found him and he is mighty and full of generous grace. If it were not for the grace given for my wicked sin i would have lost my gift long ago.

I was crying out to God yesterday and told him I'm sorry but it just doesn't feel like I'm truly repenting but I'm doing it because I know it's the right thing to do but I'm praying to be able to truly repent

We can get so caught up in repentance and faith wr put our faith in repentance and faith.

This video is 13 years old and still blessing people... I know it blessed me.

Paul Washers sermons are so straight to the heart... & very sensitive & so honest... what a wonderful pastor🙏🏻

I REALLY needed to hear this. The doubt of salvation comes from this feeling of “non perfect” repentance. Thank you Jesus!

Father I need you! Please help me I’m lost without you and I need a savior. Walk me through true repentance and forgiveness for all.

Biggest revelation about repentance... IT IS A GIFT, NOT A GIVEN. We do not get to decide when we will quit something. I have tried. I never saw change, until I got this revelation. We cannot even bring ourselves to repentance until GOD GRANTS IT!

Paul Washer is such a gift. Truly a Godly man whom I have nothing but respect for.

Thank you LORD for convicting me of my sins. You are holy

Amen! Repentance is not a one time work, but a continual work of grace, towards eternity.

Oh, Paul, in my case, I always felt guilty that I was doing it good enough, repenting that is. Not until I found Reformed theology and understood the doctrines of grace did I test in Christ. I was always looking at myself and despairing. It wasn’t arrogance, it was fear. I’m grateful for you. This video helped immensely.

I use to superficially pray to the LORD for humility. I knew there was something wrong with my heart but I assumed everyone does so I'd pray but shrug it off. Little did I know the LORD would take me up on that offer. He allowed everything that I was so secure in that I used as modes to build my pride at once to come crashing down. It brought me down to my knees for days praying that God would make himself known to me. He did. I thought I was saved at 9 but I was on the floor begging him to save me at 27 and the truth is I don't know what I was at 9 but I can say right now without a shadow of doubt that God is my Father and I am His child and He loves me. "Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered" and "but let those who boast boast in this, that they understand and know me, that I am the LORD" Praise God for hearing my cries.

There is a dangerous thing about learning about the word from other people and that it is because of too much knowledge. Hear me out when I first repented I was saved I felt amazing and I was holy I literally didn’t sin for 2 months I wanna say. Then the first time I fell back into sin I wondered if I would ever be forgiven which I found out I would be, but I feel the thing that leads me back into sin is knowing God will forgive me which is why I don’t like it when people say we will always sin even after repentance. LIKE YES WE ARE SINNERS BUT DONT BLAME SINS ON THE FACT THAT WE ARE SINNERS BECAUSE WE SHOULD TRY EVERYTHING NOT TO SIN. Now ofc some people are genuine and they do try hard but the reality is they think they can get away with anything but they cannot. So I ask that those who accepted Christ and have sinned to try this with me. Have your mind go blank and focus on everything you did when you first repented, allow the Holy Spirit within you take over and make all knowledge and thought go away, and enter a complete silence and just sit and listen to what the Spirit of God says to you and then speak of it out load, and start fresh from where you left off after you repent and keep the consequences and thought that God knows your heart and that you should not lie to yourself be scared of it that you don’t do it. Fear the magnificence of God’s mercy and follow that fear and don’t take it for granted. Amen❤️🙏

The realization I finally came to about true repentance is, though we may never achieve sinless perfection, we have to constantly strive for it.

It is ONE major thing I see missing in this, that when you are converted it is the Holy Spirit that keeps you from sinning. You dont grow in repentence, you grow from glory to glory faith to faith. Jesus says if anyone come after him, deny self, pick up the cross daily, and follow. You just have to give up trying to be righteous and believe that HE will keep you if you abide in his Word( walking in obedience to the Word).