Title: Believer, What Happens When You Sin?
Meta: What makes you doubt your salvation? Many will say, "When I sin I doubt my salvation." 

"When I sin there is the worst grief that comes in my heart. I have a heavy grief that I have grieved my Father and that I have grieved the Holy Spirit. But listen to me, my salvation does not depend on whether I sin or didn't sin. My salvation depends on what Jesus Christ did with my sins on Calvary's cross." - Mike Morrow
Tags: assurance,sin,struggle

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I had this discussion not too long ago,

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back last year or a year or so ago.

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Little house church, folks

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sitting around talking about their testimony.

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And every one of them, I'm going to be honest with you,

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there wasn't much of a testimony there.

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And then the question was asked,

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"What makes you doubt your salvation?"

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And just almost to the man, it was:

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"When I sin, when I sin I doubt that I'm saved."

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And they came to me, and they said,

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"Brother Mike, what makes you doubt your salvation?"

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And I said, "I don't."

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And they said, "You don't doubt your salvation?"

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And I said, "No, there are times when I go back and I make sure,

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I look at things again, I pray again, I seek the Lord's face,

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but I know what happened to me."

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And they say, "Well, what about when you sin?"

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I said, "Here's what happens when I sin:

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there is the worst grief that comes in my heart...

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I have a heavy grief that I have grieved my Father

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and that I've grieved the Holy Spirit,

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but listen to me, my salvation

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doesn't depend on whether I sinned or didn't sin,

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my salvation depends on what

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Jesus Christ did with my sins on Calvary's cross."

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And not just my salvation, you listen to me.

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When I was saved I was made accepted with God.

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We are accepted in the Beloved.

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We are accepted in the Beloved.

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I'm trying to get you to see that something happens

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on the inside of you when God saves you,

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that changes you so that when you sin,

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you grieve the Holy Spirit of God,

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and because your spirit

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is joined with the Spirit of the Living God,

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when the Spirit of God is grieved,

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you are grieved on the inside.

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Your heart hurts!

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And you're not satisfied

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until you find yourself in a place of repentance somewhere

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seeking the Lord's face and crying out to Him.

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Not, "Oh, God, save me again!"

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Or, "Lord, please accept me again!"

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But it's, "Oh, God, I've sinned against You.

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How can I sin against such love?

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How can I do that, O God? Have mercy on me."

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What did David say?

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Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation.

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Peace and joy in believing.