God’s Diagnosis (1 Timothy 1:15)

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🗓️ 19 February 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The third word (1 Timothy 1:15) diagnoses our human condition, revealing not just the subjective feeling of burden but also the objective consequences of violating God’s law. So how is this a “Comfortable Word”? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, and Bob Hiller consider the doctrine of sin and the concept and comfort of simul justus et peccator—“simultaneously justified and sinner.”

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0:00.0	It just acknowledges the reality that every single day I am still waging war with the
0:08.7	sin in my flesh, and the spirit is at war, as Galatians says, with the flesh.
0:14.4	But the spirits at war with the flesh, because Christ has claimed me as his own, and both
0:18.4	are 100% true at the same time.
0:20.8	Yeah.
0:21.8	I'm regenerate, and yet Paul can say, I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
0:28.8	Hence, he's talking about, look, on one hand, I'm talking about what's objectively
0:33.3	true here, I am a new man.
0:35.8	Not part of me as new, as you're saying, but I am genuinely new.
0:40.0	Genuinely new.
0:41.0	Not completely new.
0:42.0	That's right.
0:43.0	Genuinely new.
0:44.0	Keep going.
0:45.0	I got excited.
0:46.0	I am 100% justified, and I am 100% alive in Christ.
0:58.8	Applying the riches of the Reformation to the Modern Church.
1:06.9	This is White Horse Sin, a weekly roundtable discussion about theology and culture.
1:23.7	Flying Paul writes, this saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance.
1:28.8	That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
1:34.4	This idea of being a sinner is not quite as popular as it once was in our culture.
1:39.0	I recently saw a tweet from theologian Diane Butler Bass, in which she said this,
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