But also I think people often confuse the difference between confession and repentance. Religion focuses on your sin. Relationship focuses on your faith. Confession is a sin issue. Repentance is a faith issue. I think it’s unrepentance that opens the doors to the demonic.
Have you ever noticed that there’s a conversation that ensues in your head right after you’ve done something you believe is wrong like after you’ve sinned?? It’s a conversation about the sin. And it doesn't matter whether you overcame the temptation or fell to it. Imo what matters is if you believe the lie that follows the sin.
Let’s say for example…that you believe gambling is a sin and now a demon is tempting you to go gamble. The demon will tempt you to go gamble and if you fall to the sin and go gamble the demon will be in your head saying “too bad you fell to that sin cause now you're condemned because you are of course…condemned by your sin”. That’s the biggest lie the enemy wants you to believe!! The Bible says there's now therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ. Paul said wherever sin abounds…grace abounds that much more. Jesus told the woman “I do not condemn you." Paul said all things are now permissible. But after that statement, there's always a second statement. All things are permissible…but not all things are beneficial. Wherever sin abounds grace abounds that much more. But should you sin that grace abound… by no means….you are not condemned but go and sin no more. You have to be able to accept that your sin is not the issue in order to step into faith because you can't go and sin no more if you think you're already condemned by sin. And so it’s like ironically…once you realize that you're free to sin you'll be free from sin. I’m not condoning sin. This is just how I’m processing these scriptures so that I can work on overcoming the sin.
But see for the people that resisted and overcame the temptation to go gamble and did not sin the same utility still exists. The demon can still sell them on the same lie. And this lie slips in much easier in this situation cause it bolsters up pride. The demon can say “Hey great job! Good thing you didn't sin because you would have been condemned because of course you're condemned by sin”. In both cases the lie is told and believed. And so…in both cases unrepentance is achieved. It becomes a faith issue…like the rock in the field in the parable of the sower. In the first case the person fell to sin and now they should confess that they sinned but they still have an unrepentant issue. In the second case the person didn't fall to sin so they don't need to confess but they still did accept the faith issue and now have to repent. In both cases, repentance means to change your mind. Change your mind about sin. It's not about sinning or not sinning. It's about what you believe about the sin. If you keep going further and further down this road of overcoming moral dilemmas but believing the lie about the sin you just end up a Catholic.
You end up more concerned with your morality in this life more than with your salvation in the next. You’re focusing on the waves more than on Jesus. This is what Jesus is telling Peter. And this is because of course there are two ways to get into heaven. You could live a completely perfect moral life as Jesus alone accomplished and you could get into heaven on your own perfection. But since this is absolutely impossible because every single one of us has fallen short of the glory of God…this route is barred for all of us. And so the only option is to hide inside of the one who did satisfy this requirement. And that of course is Jesus Christ. Jesus is the only way. He's like the VPN that we're encrypted inside to transfer to the server of heaven.
It’s not like no one’s really gonna read this far. So Idk why I just wasted all of that time typing all of that….all of y’all can just kiss my ass lol
