Responding to Sin - Part 2

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[upbeat music] Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley. What should you do after you've given into sin and disobeyed God? Find biblical guidance today in part two of the message, Responding to Sin.

Charles Stanley· Guest0:13

Now, what do we do with our sin? When we have yielded to temptation, how do we respond to that? We can respond by having ourselves a big pity party and just saying, "Shame on me. God, I promise I'm not gonna do it again," and turn right around and respond the same way. I believe there's some very specific things that God would have us to do once we've failed, once we've yielded, once we know we have sinned against God. And the first step is this, and that is to repent of your sin before God. If you'll notice in this passage in Psalm 51, David puts it this way. He says in verse 4, "Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned." Now, that does not mean that he did not recognize that he'd sinned against Bathsheba and against Uriah, her husband, but that primarily, most of all, that he had sinned against the living God. Recognition that his sin is against God. Recognition that that sin is against the backdrop of the goodness and love and mercy of God that He'd been bestowing upon him all the days of his life. And we need to recognize that, that our sin is against Almighty