The Necessity of Continual Repentance, Pt 3

We ought to be people of God who seek a "clean slate."  Is your Christian life clean from sin?  That is, do you actively engage in faithful and continual repentance against your great sin?  We see in the Book of Acts that converted people brought their occultic literature and books and burned them.  Total repentance is totally breaking from sin.  To repent we must agree with God that sin is wrongdoing.  How do we know what the thoughts of God are?  Look and search His matchless written Word!  We ought to have godly sorrow over our sin.  This can only come from the Spirit and the Word working in our hearts and minds. 

They openly confessed their sins to the local church.  The heathen broke the satanic power of their magic spells through contrite confession of sin through the crucified Savior.   It was a widespread practice of the occult in Ephesus.  Nothing should stop sincere Christians from complete repentance.  The cost of burning the books according to total repentance was over four million dollars in our understanding in these days.   Nothing should stop us from utter repentance even if there is a cost to ourselves.  The Ephesians did not keep the books to sell them but burned them instead in accord with complete repentance.  It was a repentance unto obedience.  Do you repent and bear fruits of repentance?  The Valley of Vision says,

Lord Jesus, I sin. Grant that I may never cease grieving because of it, never be content with myself, never think I can reach a point of perfection. Kill my envy, command my tongue, trample down self. Give me grace to be holy, kind, gentle, pure, peaceable, to live for Thee and not for self, to copy Thy words, acts, spirit, to be transformed into Thy likeness, to be consecrated wholly to Thee, to live entirely to Thy glory.
 
Deliver me from attachment to things unclean, from wrong associations, from the predominance of evil passions, from the sugar of sin as well as its gap; that with self-loathing, deep contrition, earnest heart searching I may come to Thee, cast myself on Thee, trust in Thee, cry to Thee, be delivered by Thee.
 
O God, the Eternal All, help me to know that all things are shadows, but Thou art substance, all things are quicksands, but Thou art mountain, all things are shifting, but Thou art anchor, all things are ignorance, but Thou art wisdom.
 
If my life is to be a crucible amid burning heat, so be it, but do Thou sit at the furnace mouth to watch the ore that nothing be lost. If I sin wilfully, grievously, tormentedly, in grace take away my mourning and give me music; remove my sackcloth and clothe me with beauty; still my sighs and fill my mouth with song, then give me summer weather as a Christian.