Hello everyone, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with the wonderful

John by the way we are the co-host of a podcast called Follow Him. This year our Follow Him Favorites

is taking on a specific question given to us from youth, the YSA, someone younger who's

just has a question about the gospel and we're going to answer that specific question. And the question

we received this week, John, is this idea of if I repent of something and then and then do it again,

can I repent of the same sin basically over and over? Is that allowed? Right? What does God think

about that? I've received that question before from students who feel like or young people who feel

like, man, I'm no good at repenting, right? Because here I'm repenting, but I'm repenting for

the same thing. What would you say? Oh man, that's a good question. I think I had it as a kid, but I

think one of my favorite synonyms for repent is to turn one of the things that I find fascinating.

Stephen Covey talked about it once is that an airplane is off course about 90% of the time. You

fly across the Pacific Ocean, New York to London or something. You are off course 90% of the time,

but the airplane just keeps turning, turning back. The autopilot just keeps, it just keeps turning

back to on course, finally lands on the numbers, pulls up to the gate and you walk out the jetway,

exactly where you're supposed to be, which is incredible. You can be off course 90% of the time

and get where you're going. Yeah, because you keep on turning. And that's why I like that synonym of

repent is to turn. I like that. And that's a daily process. It's just like a journey, like a flight

is a journey. Yeah. There's a scripture in the doctrine governance that confuses people,

sometimes John, it's Section 82 verse 7, where the Lord says, but under the soul that the soul

who sineth shall the former sins return, say at the Lord your God. And we've taken that to mean,

oh well, if you repent of a sin and then do it again, it's like you've been, that's like you never

repented and now you're guilty of all those sins, which that's not really what the Lord says in

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