AMA Live, Part 2: How Much Should You Dwell On Your Sin?
Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear
J.D. Greear
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🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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How much should you dwell on your sin?
* From a pastoral perspective, most of us don't hate sins enough.
* One of the main things to do is to pray for God to give us a hatred for sin.
* Having said that, the Puritans used to say, "For every one look at yourself, you should take 10 looks at Jesus Christ." In fact, where you learn to hate sin is by looking at the purity of Christ.
* The Bible says that the righteous man falls seven times and gets back up — can you imagine walking behind somebody who fell seven times? The point is, even the righteous man falls all the time. But he shows his righteousness not by never falling, but by looking to Christ when he falls.
* Growth in grace is not growing in how much you actually need grace, growth in grace is growing in your awareness of how much you actually need it.
How do you go about addressing friends who are clearly in sin?
* Practically speaking, you have to say something.
* Some of us struggle with not wanting to confront anyone. Some of us struggle with wanting to say too much.
* Ultimately, you have to say that you can't see the fruits of the gospel in their lives. And I've seen God use conversations like that in people's lives before.
* But some of you will want to say that too many times. And the key is to find balance in speaking the truth into someone's life while not trying to force them to change. You have to let the Holy Spirit do that.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to Ask Me Anything with Pastor J.D. Greer. I am Matt Love. And as we mentioned last time, Pastor J.D. recently sat down with some college students from Hardin Baptist Church in Kentucky. |
| 0:32.6 | And that group was visiting Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, |
| 0:41.6 | and they were able to have kind of an impromptu live, ask me anything, |
| 0:44.0 | with questions from that group in the audience. |
| 0:46.8 | So if you miss part one, go back and take a listen. |
| 0:48.7 | Pastor J.D. answered the question, |
| 0:52.2 | how do you have faith in something that you can't prove exists with a follow-up question about how to share your faith with others. |
| 0:56.1 | And all that's so good and just a cool environment to be able to ask questions and get them answered. |
| 1:01.8 | So today we're going to hop back in. |
| 1:04.2 | We're going to join J.D. and Josh Dickens from Southeastern for more honest questions and more quick, helpful answers. |
| 1:18.6 | Where do you find balance of hating sin that you fall into, for those habitual sins, |
| 1:23.9 | hating sin that you fall into, but not dwelling on it to the point where it waters down the cross that Christ is paid for. |
| 1:29.5 | So you're not going to dwell on it to belittle the gospel, but you need to hate this sin. |
| 1:34.8 | Yeah, well, I feel like I have a right answer and then a pastoral answer. |
| 1:40.1 | The pastoral answer is most of you probably don't hate sin enough. |
| 1:44.2 | So the right answer is we need to get your focus onto Christ, but let's just be honest. |
| 1:48.2 | Most of us, you know, there was a great article that just came out on the Gospel Coalition |
| 1:53.2 | about repentance. It was by Greenberg. I actually tweeted it out two days ago. |
| 1:59.3 | If you find me on Twitter, you can link to the |
| 2:01.1 | article. And she just talked about the signs of repentance. And one of them is that you genuinely, |
| 2:06.5 | you're not just frustrated that you did it. You're not embarrassed by it. I mean, you may be, |
| 2:10.4 | but the main thing is you've learned to dislike it. And you've got to ask God, God, |
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