How Do I Learn to HATE My Sin?

Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This week on Ask the Pastor, Pastor J.D. answers a question submitted by Tyler who asked, "“I know in my head that my sin is sinful, but I can't seem to 'metabolize' it and get that truth into my heart. How can I do that?”

A glimpse inside this episode:

* The goal of salvation is a new kind of righteousness.
* Understanding sin requires both head knowledge and heart transformation.
* Living by faith means choosing what is right despite feelings.
* Growth in grace involves recognizing our ongoing need for grace.
* Sowing seeds of righteousness leads to spiritual growth.
* Habits shape our desires and affections.
* Choosing against fleshly desires is a step of faith.
* Reckoning ourselves dead to sin empowers us to resist temptation.
* Prayer and belief in the gospel are essential for spiritual life.
* Continuous reliance on God's grace is crucial in the Christian walk.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Ask the Pastor.
0:09.1	I am Matt Love.
0:10.1	I am here with J.D. Greer.
0:11.7	And J.D., I mentioned this to you, but I wanted the listeners to know.
0:15.8	It's just so I get credit that I did move your books to the background of my screen.
0:20.5	So if you're on YouTube and you've
0:22.2	just kind of forgotten which books J.D. has written, just check out. Go ahead and subscribe j.d.d.
0:27.2	Greer and you can look at the shelf behind me. You moved him from the doorstop place that kept your
0:32.6	You were fully out of the screen. So I moved you from a place of dishonor to the place of honor.
0:39.5	So you're right up my head. It was keeping your coffee table from rocking back and forth.
0:43.5	One of those books was right underneath the leg. I mean, stop asking Jesus into your heart.
0:47.2	It's very small. It's a perfect size for that. Well, Jay, do you really glad to be back doing
0:52.3	listener questions. These first few that we've gotten are really good.
0:55.7	And so I just hope if you're a listener out there and you have a question for Pastor J.D., that you'll send it in to us.
1:02.3	But this week, we have a question from a listener named Tyler. And he says, I know in my head that my sin is sinful.
1:10.5	It's good. But I can't seem to metabolize it and get that
1:14.1	truth into my heart. How can I do that? And again, maybe just a simple way of asking it,
1:19.8	J.D., is how do we learn to hate our sin? Yeah, I was thinking, stops to take moment to look up
1:26.0	precise definition of metabolize to make sure I got it. Yeah, I was thinking, stops to take moment to look up precise definition of metabolize
1:27.8	to make sure I got it.
1:30.2	Yeah, so let me just say, Tyler, first of all, that is, you've asked what is the goal of
1:36.0	salvation, is that, is that we're not just, we're not just looking at right behavior,
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