NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - How To Break The Cycle Of Sin
Aired: 2022-06-29
Duration: 04:40


=== Worldly Remorse vs True Repentance (04:40) ===

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[00:00:19]  Jesus said, Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
[00:00:25]  You're listening to Daily Truth.
[00:00:29]  We are surprised, so often surprised by our sin.
[00:00:32]  And what we're saying in essence is this this is worldly remorse, right?
[00:00:36]  We say, I can't believe I did that, remorse.
[00:00:38]  Now, resolve is, I'll never do it again.
[00:00:42]  In my own effort, right?
[00:00:43]  Sola bootstrappia, I'm going to pull myself up by my bootstraps.
[00:00:46]  I'm going to grit my teeth, the sweat of my brow, blood, sweat, and tears.
[00:00:49]  I'm going to make sure that I never do this again.
[00:00:50]  Now, in essence, what we're saying is this I can't believe I did this, aka this is a fluke.
[00:00:55]  This is a one off.
[00:00:56]  This is not a fair and accurate representation of who I am.
[00:01:00]  That's what we're saying.
[00:01:02]  And the resolve, I'll never do this again, is to say, and I'll prove by never doing it again.
[00:01:09]  Whereas that's remorse and resolve.
[00:01:11]  To realize and repent.
[00:01:13]  So, remorse and resolve marks false repentance.
[00:01:15]  True repentance is realize and repent.
[00:01:17]  To realize and repent is to say, what I've just done is ultimately not the problem.
[00:01:25]  What I've just done is an exact representation of who I am.
[00:01:31]  And I think of what the prophet Nathan said to David.
[00:01:34]  He tells him this parable of a man who had one little lamb, and his children, it was like a pet to them, it would eat at their table.
[00:01:42]  They loved this lamb.
[00:01:44]  And he had a neighbor who had tons of livestock.
[00:01:48]  And one day, a traveler, a sojourner, comes to stay with his neighbor and he wants to exercise.
[00:01:54]  His neighbor wants to exercise hospitality.
[00:01:56]  But rather than killing one of his own lambs, of which he had many, he was a rich, wealthy man.
[00:02:01]  He snuck in and stole that one little pet lamb from the poor man.
[00:02:07]  And he carved it up and served it to the stranger in order to appear hospitable.
[00:02:15]  And Nathan, he tells this parable to David and says, What should be done with this man?
[00:02:21]  David said, Surely this man should die.
[00:02:25]  And Nathan responds by saying, Not this is what you did.
[00:02:30]  You had several wives, you were the king, wealthy, so much, and you took Uriah's sweetheart, the love of his life, Bathsheba.
[00:02:39]  Rather than Nathan responding by saying, This is what you did.
[00:02:43]  No, he responds and says, You are the man.
[00:02:48]  This is who you are.
[00:02:50]  Response, church.
[00:02:52]  You are the man.
[00:02:55]  You are the woman.
[00:02:58]  I am the man.
[00:02:59]  Our problem is not just that we do bad things.
[00:03:02]  Our problem is that we are bad people.
[00:03:04]  Our problem is that we are corrupt in our inmost nature.
[00:03:09]  And to repent, to truly repent, is not remorse.
[00:03:13]  I can't believe I did that.
[00:03:14]  And resolve.
[00:03:15]  I'll never do it again.
[00:03:16]  No, it is to realize and repent.
[00:03:17]  It is to say, my problem is not just what I do.
[00:03:21]  Or say, My problem is that I have a wicked heart.
[00:03:23]  It is who I am.
[00:03:25]  It is intertwined in every fiber of my being, in my flesh.
[00:03:28]  And if God does not change me, I will do this again and again and again.
[00:03:35]  And very likely, I will do far worse.
[00:03:38]  To repent is to change, not in our own strength, not in our own efforts.
[00:03:43]  It is to realize the full weight of the problem.
[00:03:47]  And then to cry out to God and say, I don't just need resolve, I don't just need discipline.
[00:03:53]  Just need extra intentional thoughts about.
[00:03:57]  I need to be transformed.
[00:04:01]  I must be transformed.
[00:04:03]  And you must create in me a clean heart, oh God.
[00:04:06]  You must change me.
[00:04:08]  You must radically transform my identity because woe am I.
[00:04:12]  And sin did my mother conceive me.
[00:04:14]  In iniquity I was brought forth.
[00:04:16]  The problem is not just what I've done, the problem is who I am.
[00:04:19]  I am the man.
[00:04:21]  God, change me.
[00:04:23]  That's what it is to repent.
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