Now I'm not talking about backsliding. But if you are sinning and don't feel bad about your sins then you haven't received the Holy Spirit, and you have to repent(say you're sorry and stop sinning) and ask God to reveal your sins. And if you're sinning and not in battle with your sins then you are not regenerated by the Holy Spirit. Once you hear the gospel and believe it, the Holy Spirit will come and rest in you(Acts 19:5).
Don't worry! Just because you feel more wretched than you did before you surrendered your life to Jesus it doesn't mean that you are backsliding from faith. You just have an awareness of your sins now and God is revealing them to you. This is what is called sanctification. You see one part of yourself you might not have seen before or have not hated. You're growing in holiness and understanding about your sinfulness and you want to get rid of it from your life. And don't just believe it but apply the Word to your life.
James 1:22-27 (ESV)Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, othe law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless. Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you. (Romans 12:2)
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