The question is not, "Do you know you are a sinner?" the question is this, "As you have heard me preach the Gospel, has God so worked in your life that the sin you once loved you now hate?"
Interpretation
This quote challenges individuals to reflect on their transformation regarding sin in their lives.
Paul Washer's quote emphasizes the importance of inner change in one's spiritual journey. It asserts that mere acknowledgment of one's sinful nature is insufficient; the true measure of growth is whether a person has developed a genuine hatred for the sin they once embraced, indicating a profound transformation and alignment with the teachings of the Gospel.
In practice
In a sermon about personal change and redemption, you might use this quote to emphasize the importance of spiritual growth.
We deal five minutes with a person and their conversion and then we spend the next fifty years trying to disciple a goat into a sheep. I'm not saying this because I'm angry. I'm saying this because countless people are being deceived.
Pray for the field. If God calls, then prepare for the field. When it is time, go to the field. A life lost for Christ is a life well spent.
There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.
Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize that ten thousand unanimous opinions of carnal men do not carry the authority of one jot or tittle of God's Word.
The evidence of conversion is not a decision card filled out, it's a life being lived out.
Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.
Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it, one discovers without difficulty that a more immense judicial power has never been constituted in any people.
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.
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