Continued Repentance

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 25, 1877

Continued Repentance

The promises in the Bible are not made to one act, but to the continued habit of prayer. It evinces more depravity not to repent of a sin than it does to commit it at first. A good man may be hurried away by temptation to commit a sin; but he will invariably repent of it afterward. To deny, as Peter did, is bad; but not to weep bitterly, as he did, when we have denied, is worse. One mark of a true convert is that he continues to repent of his sins after he hopes that they are pardoned. The true Christian desires to be saved from sin. And his hatred of sin, and repentance for it, increase in proportion as his assurance of heaven increases.