(Clip) Do You Just Casually Confess Your Sin

A friend of mine who's a pastor told me, he had a beautiful life, I mean, his character was so Christ-like, and as we began to know each other more and more, he told me, he said, Brother Don, I don't just casually confess my sin. He said, what I do is I take the time that when God points out something in my life, it's like I put it on the table before me, and I look at it, and then I pray, God, enable me to see that sin the way you see it, and to feel about that sin the way you feel about it. And he said, the more I meditate on it in the process of confession, the more I find glorious help in legitimately repenting of that sin. I don't easily go back to it. Here's the interesting thing about the Puritans and the Reformers. You rarely, in their writings or sermons, see where they tell people, inform their congregations of people they preach to of what their sin was doing to them. But aboundingly so, they inform people of what their sin is doing to God. Ever think about it? Deprives God of His glory and praise, robs the kingdom of God, and grieves the heart of God. Think about this. How would you feel if you were married, and maybe you are married, and you come in unexpectedly one day, and you find your mate in the bed with another person? Wouldn't that grieve you? That's microscopic compared to what your sin does in grieving the heart of God. And I love what the French Bible says. It's translated, Ephesians chapter 4, when it says, Grieve not the Holy Spirit, it literally means, do not make to cry the Holy Spirit. You ever think about what your sin does to God? These excerpts were taken from Don Curran's full sermon, The Discipline of Grace, that is on Titus 2, 11 to 13, in which he speaks of how the grace that saves is a grace that sustains and motivates the believer and teaches them to be godly in this present world. This message can be found on illbehonest.com.