Hey guys, real quick, before we get started, I have a small request. If you've been blessed by our

content and you like this show, would you take just a brief moment and leave us a five-star review?

This is quite possibly the most effective thing that you can do to ensure that this content

gets out to as many people as possible. Thanks.

If you actually are saved, then you've repented of sin. And if you've repented of sin, then you are going to, that the evidence of that, the fruit of that is that

you're going to do good works in keeping with repentance. Now, a couple of things to say here.

There is a fine line and we've got to be

careful with this, because I've seen it crossed. There's a fine line in doing good works in

keeping with repentance versus doing penance. Now again, we are Protestant Christians. We are not

Roman Catholics. We are not Roman Catholics.

We do not prescribe penance to people, but we do command people to do good works in keeping

with repentance.

Or as Jesus would say to people, go and sin no more.

Your sins are forgiven.

Go and sin no more, right? Go not just with

forgiveness, but go with a new life, right? A new life that manifests the reality that you are a

forgiven person. Live differently, right? You've been forgiven freely, but let's now see some fruit. There's a fine line between

prescribing penance and encouraging people to go and send no more, to do good works in keeping,

to bear good fruit in keeping with repentance, right? So let me give you an example. Okay. So if,

if you're a pastor and somebody commits a sin, whether it be a fellow elder or a deacon or a member

in the church, and you've determined that they've committed a sin and even you think that

they've made a habit out of it, that it's become kind of

...