Kind of like the 12 step program, admitting your sin is the first step to recovery.
We're not told to remain complacent with our sin continuing as a sinner.
Jesus expected more of us after accepting him.
After what John said, admitting one is a sinner.
May I now direct your attention to what Jesus said and kept telling people over and over and over and over and over and over. the message not being you're a sinner admit it but instead
John 5
7“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
8Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
9At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,
10and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”
11But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”
12So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”
13The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
14Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him,
“See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”
Repent...and Go and sin no more being the order and command and directive of our High priest and commander.