Continue To Sin After Repentance

Tissue123 said:

Hi,
I've been struggling a lot with habits such as masturbation and porn, I asked for God to help me stop this habit and to help me resist temptations for it, I always ask for repentance everyday(morning and night) but I always ended up watching porn everyday. From what I heard ''When you repent you stop doing the sin that you did and start a new life". The problem is after I've repent I keep on sinning and sinning, Will God still forgive me even though I repented and continued to keep on sinning?

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Hey Tissue,

Repent means you have changed your mind about a particular sin and now are agreeing with God that sin is disgusting. It means to change our inner man to conform to be more and more like Christ. It means we think differently after a true repentance and we actually begin to hate the sin to the point where we refuse to do that sin again.

We have free will to chose to do the sin or not, however because God is so awesome and faithful, He promises to give us a way out of temptation every time we are tempted, we just have to take the way out:

1 Cor 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

We have to be willing to participate with God and to follow Him and not our natural instincts. Paul talks about us avoiding these things, God isn't going to take your free will away, you have a choice and it really is up to you if you fall prey or not.

I want you to know I will be praying for you brother, He does give us the strength and courage to overcome these things.

You can pm me if you want.