Sorry, i was a bit premature in my comments. In reading some of the comments my questions were answered.
Thank you!

I’m sorry but this was not helpful in a sense of explanation of scripture, Hebrews 6 and 10. Is there any expansion on these verses. At face value, they imply there is no hope.

Remember that God loves you and wants you to overcome sin. He is on your side. Go to Him instead of running away from Him when you sin. Keep trying and never give up. You will eventually win.

Sometimes there are underlying reasons (you mentioned you are more apt to sin when you are bored).

Read Psalm 81:13-16. Is there any way you can obey Him even in little ways? It is the devil (and demons) you are fighting. God can subdue them and satisfy you if you do your part.

You can even thank God for this temptation because it can keep your relying on Him and wanting to know His ways so you can overcome sin.

We do experience the consequences of sin. If it is a sin that we are trying to overcome, we feel guilty and depressed. If we think we are without sin and just keep doing it, we will be disciplined more harshly. He disciplines His children because He loves them.

So much of the bible is encouraging. Pray this for yourself and others:

"I pray that our of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with the all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge–that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen!" Ephesians 3:16-21

We can overcome and experience more joy than we imagined.

God bless! Jerri

My questions:

I am a believer of Christ and raised in devout Christian home.

I struggle with keeping myself from committing specific sins. I know that they are very wrong. In fact I will go to church, or pray, or do something holy, then next you know Im committing a bad sin, that I know is wrong. At first it was an unintentional sin, but I soon learned it is actually a serious sin. My sin is lust, through acts of impurity. I was so used to committing this sin that it took a while to break the habit. Everyday I go without committing this sin is a good day. But sometimes when I’m bored, I get tempted very easily, or when Im very disappointed in myself I fall to temptation easily. How can I become a stronger Christian? Where can I draw strength?

Also is it inevitable that I get punished or disciplined? I know that very few people break a sinful habit and stay away from it for live? So what will I tell God if this happens again?

And thank you so much for reading and answering this. Feel free to be blunt and honest, I do not like God’s word soothed to make it sound less harsh. God Bless You

I agree with you. If we believe that Jesus died to pay the debt we owe for our sins, and if we agree that sin is sin and want to do what is right, than our sins are paid for and we will go to heaven. It is not a matter of the good we do “…all our righteous acts are like filthy rags…” Isaiah 64:6.

We should do what is good because we want to please Jesus and not hurt others or ourselves, but as long as we live on earth there will be a constant struggle against sin.

Paul explains it well in Romans chapters 5-8 “…if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it…Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!” Romans 7:20-25

God bless! Jerri

I tend to disagree. I have read that once saved we set aside the sin nature and choose to follow Christ. For if the sin nature is dead ALL sin would be intentional and would lead to the "am I really saved" doubt. Sin is sin. God sees no sin in us cor we are in Christ and that is what he sees. So no one can remove us from His hand, reguardless of sin intentionally or otherwise. Example, a believer who is homosexual will be with the father in heaven. obviously, I do not have a great deal of education but when I hear thing and test them in liht of scripture and see co

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