05/20/2026
Why Sin Often Happens Over and Over Again
You know the feeling, you did it again! Same mistake, same consequence, same results. You repented, you asked God to forgive you, you KNOW you are forgiven, and yet here you are again, in the same place as before. What gives?
You are not getting to the root cause. My mentor, Bill Prince, also a successful businessman before he went into full-time ministry, would always say, " Let’s get to the root cause… " It is called “root cause analysis”. It looks beyond what happened to the real cause of what happened. The Bible tells us to open ourselves up to the light and let the Holy Spirit’s light convict and lead us higher. Nowhere is that more important than with our consistent sin patterns.
If you keep making bad decisions that hurt your relationships, keep making bad choices in a relationship partner, bad friend choices, and bad financial decisions, you are sabotaging your life. These decisions are hurting your life. We must ask, why do I keep making them? In my experience, the root cause is that deep down, you are clinging to false beliefs about who you are and what you deserve, and you have not really identified
yourself with what God says about you. As a believer, you are a new creation in Christ; the old is passed away-that means it is gone!!!! But we often still cling to the old. You had a hurt when you were young-bullied, abused, whatever-and somewhere down deep, a negative self-worth was formed. Because it has been with you your entire life, because you so closely identified with it, even though you embrace what Jesus says in your head,
you still cling to the old in your heart. It must go from head knowledge to heart knowledge! And when you leave old sins, old wounds buried deep, and do not take them into the light of Jesus’s healing and walk as a new creation, you allow the devil room to keep messing with you, keep sabotaging you, until you are back where you feel, deep down, you belong. That mountaintop experience you had with God ceases being real in
the midst of the day-to-day, and you slip back into old patterns, old habits, and allow the devil to trip you up…yet again.
You are actually blaspheming, putting what you say about you above what God says about you-that is blasphemy, exalting yourself over God. This Sunday, we will dive deep into what Jesus says about blasphemy of God and the Holy Spirit. It will be a heavy-duty but hopefully fun and eye-opening sermon. You don’t want to miss it. This Sunday,
10:30-yes, it is Memorial Day weekend, but it might be raining, so come and get blessed with a critical message. Time to believe what God says about you, not what your past says about you, and walk in the light as He is in the light. See you Sunday!
Pastor Brian
P.S. The purpose of the Great Awareness Church is to get Christians ready for Jesus’s coming. We preach Scripture and challenge our congregation to grow that relationship with Jesus. Join us! It is a real “coffee house” type feel. Please join us this Sunday at 10:30…we will have coffee and donuts for you! Get to know each other better as we walk through this thing called life. 900 Cripple Creek Drive, Lawrenceville. Or stream it live on our YouTube channel . See you then!!!!!
P.P.S. My book, “The Last Instructions of Jesus (Before He Comes Again)," is a deep dive into Revelation 2 and 3, Jesus' last words, and it is a game-changing book. You can click on this link to order or go online to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. Click the link below and get yours today!
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