Call sin, a sin, that's the first thing. Call sin, a sin, you can't afford not to do it, because there is a cure for sin and a remedy for it. You only have to pretend if there is no remedy. You will never be cured from sin as long you cover it up or hide from it. You must call sin, a sin, that's the first thing. Be real about the things in your life that are sin. Now if there was no remedy for sin, then the whole gospel is just a big joke and is totally worthless.The second thing you must do, is see that sin cannot be justified. You can never justify sin. You must always call sin, sin. You must stop looking at things that you do wrong, or feelings that you have that are wrong and then excuse them as shortcomings, or as little weakness in your humanity, or as little characteristics that occur because of your background, stop that. Stop saying Oh! Well I am real sweet person you know, I maybe just a bit incommunicative, not unloving, just incommunicative, stop saying that. Stop saying I just have a tendency toward a fiery kind of temperament you know, I maybe a little a fiery at times, but I am not really angry. You might say, well no one is perfect you know and basically I am a good person deep down, sure I may mess up a little here and there, but I am no criminal. Stop that and call your sin, as sin, say "I am angry, that's sin". Say "I have unlovingness, and that's sin." Never think that anger is okay, or you can't really help it. Never think of any gossip, slander, jealously or any other sin as just human. Never accept any sin as normal human feelings. Don't ever think that you can't help sin, or that sin is just normal part of being human. and you will always have sin until the day you die. Do not excuse anger, gossip, or sarcasm or jealously, because when you do, you gradually reduce the whole life in Christ and it becomes less and less to you. Never justify sin! Don't call it by any other name, always keep calling it sin. The reason for this is because the door to full consecration is continual repentance. If you are living in known sin and your attitude is well, I know I need a miracle for God to set me free from this sin, so I will wait for the miracle. NO, NO, that is not the way into the miracle. The way into the place of full consecration where the Holy Spirit can cleanse your heart by faith, is by continual honest repentance day, by day, by day. If you are unwilling to call sin, sin then you can become Impenitent. Impenitence, that is lack of penitence, impenitence, un-repentance, impenitence is more than just repeated sinning. You may think that because you are sinning all the time, that there is no hope for you. This is NOT true. Impenitence is the growing tolerance of that sinning as a necessity. Its not just that you are sinning repeatedly, but impenitence is the time when your conscience becomes seared, and when you get to the point where you can no longer come to the place of full consecration. Impenitence happens when you regard your sinning as a necessity in your life, and you begin to tolerate it. Impenitence is the acceptance of the idea that you can't stop sinning, You are in great danger when you regard your sin as normal rather than abnormal, or as natural rather than alien. However often you may sin, you must set your heart against it, with all your being, and regard it as something that you must get rid of completely. God is more than willing to forgive you but He will also lead you to ask the all important question, which is the key to deliverance, why can't I stop sinning? There is no point, you know by crying out and saying, there is no hope for me, because I have sinned. It isn't just the sinning, its not just the falling, that is the real problem but it's the refusal to get up and go every time you fall and to believe that there comes the time when you do not need to fall. That is what true repentance is. The reason why many of you are sinning is because you have unclean heart. With an unclean heart, repentance is not, never sinning at this point in your life, but it is a refusal to accept sinning as normal in your life. It is a refusal to accept the word of God for freedom from sin. It is a constant belief that the normal Christian life is one that is free from unclean hearts, and free from unclean life, and that is the way into the place of full consecration. It is the desperate crying out to God. It isn't the crying out to man, why, why can I not stop sinning? While you are crying out to man, while maybe having little achievements and accomplishments, while you are reading the books, while you are talking to other people, saying why can't I stop sinning, even though I am a Christian? While you are doing that, you are just pretending. While you are trying to justify your situation, you are not even serious, but when you are desperate enough to cry out to the Holy Spirit, "Holy Spirit, why can I not stop this, why?" Then you are coming into the place of full consecration, where the dear Holy Spirit Himself can begin to deal with you, and can explain to you in what ways your heart is not clean for Him to dwell. He will explain it to you all this, because He wants to dwell in your heart, your heart was made for His indwelling, that's why your heart is there. You were made for the Holy Spirit of the God to stay and dwell and live within you day after day, night after night, moment by moment, and the Holy Spirit's dearest desire is to come there, and make that His home.
