Today's episode should be called I disagree with Paul Tripp. Paul, it's fun to put these in front of you,

and almost always these critiques or disagreements come from a place of love and gratitude

with an encouraging note alongside. But here's the disagreement. You've written in multiple

places that we're both a sinner and a saint,

that these are two key parts of our identity.

And without fail, every time you do, someone disagrees.

So here are two of them.

Denny writes, I'm a bit confused.

Am I a saint or a sinner?

When I trusted Christ as my Savior, didn't I become a saint?

Wouldn't it be accurate to say I'm a saint who

sometimes struggles with sin? But I don't continue to sin. And then he references 1st John 3-6.

No one who abides in him keeps on sinning. No one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known

him. Then Scott writes, the Apostle Paul would have addressed all of his letters to the sinners in Corinth, the sinners in Philippi, the sinners in Ephesus, but he never did.

He rebukes them for their very sinner-like behavior, but he never got the two confused.

He always wanted them to be very clear about who they now were in Christ Jesus, new creations.

See 2 Corinthians 5, 16, and 17. He continues,

I used to be a sinner, estranged from God, and at various times in the week, day, or even hour,

I become a walking contradiction, a saint who sins. But I can't be a sinner because according to

Galatians 220, Roman 6 and the first part of Roman 7,

among other places in the New Testament, that sinner is now dead.

So how do you respond?

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