In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month to 50,000

downloads. What made the difference? You leaving us a five-star review. The more positive reviews,

the more the algorithm picks us up. And more people are confronted by the law and gospel of Jesus

Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a five-star

review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. We're not called by God to wallow in our sin.

It is an objective fact that if you are in Christ, you are a saint.

You have a new heart.

Even in regards to the doctrine of total depravity within the reformed tradition, yes, we uphold the doctrine of total depravity.

But total depravity does not apply for the Christian. It doesn't. The Christian

is a new creature in Christ Jesus. He has been born again. His heart of stone has been removed and has

been replaced now with a heart of flesh, a heart that by its very nature is soft and

and malleable and receptive to the voice of God. They are now sheep, in a sense always were,

but now sheep that have been found and are in the fold of the shepherd, responding to the

shepherd, not only hearing his voice,

but loving his voice. Now those who are born again, those who have been saved are still

sinners, but not in the same way. The sin nature has been done away with.

Now the flesh still remains,

and I believe this is precisely what the Apostle Paul addresses in Romans chapter 7.

The sin still resides within the members of my being.

He says, and I believe this is not pre-conversion,

but this is Paul speaking as a Christian. He says, so I believe this is not pre-conversion, but this is Paul speaking as a Christian.

He says, so I find this law at work, that when I want to do good, evil is right there present

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