Nintentacle said:
So for a new believer, Satan would say something like:
"Jesus will still forgive you, because you believe in him." or "Just do it this one last time."
If so, I have definitely fallen into the latter one before.
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Yep, but, not to worry, even the apostles sinned, just repent, get up and keep walking. Each day you are going to get better and better, more and more humble, and getting away from sin will get easier and easier:
¶ What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
¶ For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.
For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, [^1] that we should no longer be slaves to sin —
because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
¶ Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
¶ In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
Romans 6:1-12
The more you get cleaned by the Spirit, the less Sin will have power over you, just be sincere and do your best.
When you get desesperate about the evil inclinations, remember even the apostles suffered this. It also makes us humble, which is an amazing gift of the Spirit, I mean, being humble:
For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. [^3] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do —this I keep on doing.
Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
¶ So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
For in my inner being I delight in God's law;
Romans 7:18-22
but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?
Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! ¶ So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in my sinful nature [^4] a slave to the law of sin
Romans 7:23-25