Hi Randy Kluth,
I'm so sorry to hear that you are suffering the same thing, hardship of repentance.
I think I'm feeling better about repenting now but now I know another sin I should totally repent from as well. I will do my best.
So I also think there's a sin in which the Holy Spirit prompts you not to do, but you don't trust in God and believe the "worldly" Satanic lie and then sin, but if you repent of this then there's no condemnation of those who are in Christ sin who walketh not in the flesh but by the Spirit.
Then there's the sin in which you're under pressure so you accidentally sin but then you repent right away so you're redirected so you're covered, there's no condemnation for you in Christ Jesus...
Then there's the sin that you can't help but 'feel', but you don't 'act' on it, then you're covered, there's no condemnation for you in Christ Jesus, etc (the whole verse).
Then there's a sin that's tempting but it seems like God can provide a way out of it, meaning it becomes not that tempting (you can pray about it), then you can probably stop it, then there's no condemnation for you in Christ Jesus... if you stop it.
In conclusion, I still think repentance is a constant struggle but it says in the Bible, All things are possible with God. I hope this helps.
Oh I feel bad for you. I think you have some confusions and…are wearing yourself out needlessly. You seem to me to be trying to finish in your own strength what was begun by the Spirit.
I think Galatians 3 might help you some.
It has helped me to think of some words very succinctly. Like “faith” =trust .
And repent = turn back to trust when you find yourself in anxious worries rather than trust.
The Law and Faith in Christ
3 Oh, foolish Galatians! Who has cast an evil spell on you? For the meaning of Jesus Christ’s death was made as clear to you as if you had seen a picture of his death on the cross. 2 Let me ask you this one question: Did you receive the Holy Spirit by obeying the law of Moses? Of course not! You received the Spirit because you believed the message you heard about Christ. 3 How foolish can you be? After starting your new lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort? 4 Have you experienced[
a]so much for nothing? Surely it was not in vain, was it?
5 I ask you again, does God give you the Holy Spirit and work miracles among you because you obey the law? Of course not! It is because you believe the message you heard about Christ.
6 In the same way, “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.”[
b] 7 The real children of Abraham, then, are those who put their faith in God.
8 What’s more, the Scriptures looked forward to this time when God would make the Gentiles right in his sight because of their faith. God proclaimed this good news to Abraham long ago when he said, “All nations will be blessed through you.”[
c] 9 So all who put their faith in Christ share the same blessing Abraham received because of his faith.
10 But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in God’s Book of the Law.”[
d]11 So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”[
e] 12 This way of faith is very different from the way of law, which says, “It is through obeying the law that a person has life.”[
f]
13 But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”[
g] 14 Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham, so that we who are believers might receive the promised[
h] Holy Spirit through faith.
The Law and God’s Promise
15 Dear brothers and sisters,[
i] here’s an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or amend an irrevocable agreement, so it is in this case. 16 God gave the promises to Abraham and his child.[
j] And notice that the Scripture doesn’t say “to his children,[
k]” as if it meant many descendants. Rather, it says “to his child”—and that, of course, means Christ. 17 This is what I am trying to say: The agreement God made with Abraham could not be canceled 430 years later when God gave the law to Moses. God would be breaking his promise. 18 For if the inheritance could be received by keeping the law, then it would not be the result of accepting God’s promise. But God graciously gave it to Abraham as a promise.
19 Why, then, was the law given? It was given alongside the promise to show people their sins. But the law was designed to last only until the coming of the child who was promised. God gave his law through angels to Moses, who was the mediator between God and the people. 20 Now a mediator is helpful if more than one party must reach an agreement. But God, who is one, did not use a mediator when he gave his promise to Abraham.
21 Is there a conflict, then, between God’s law and God’s promises?[
l] Absolutely not! If the law could give us new life, we could be made right with God by obeying it. 22 But the Scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, so we receive God’s promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ.
God’s Children through Faith
23 Before the way of faith in Christ was available to us, we were placed under guard by the law. We were kept in protective custody, so to speak, until the way of faith was revealed.
24 Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could be made right with God through faith. 25 And now that the way of faith has come, we no longer need the law as our guardian.
26 For you are all children[
m] of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes.[
n]28 There is no longer Jew or Gentile,[
o] slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children[
p] of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you.
