If I’m Really a Christian, Why Do I Keep on Sinning?
Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear
J.D. Greear
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🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Do you ever feel stuck in your sin? Do you ever wish you were more able to kick old habits and overcome old temptations?
In this episode of “12 Truths & A Lie,” Pastor J.D. walks us through the temptation of Jesus, showing us how Satan brings his battle against Jesus-and against us. He doesn’t begin where we might expect, enticing Jesus to do sinful things. He begins, instead, with identity.
You’ll learn to spot the three traps Satan always uses, and you’ll hear about the one truth that enables you to withstand any attack.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to Ask Me Anything where Pastor J.D. Greer answers your questions. |
| 0:24.7 | I'm Matt Love, and we have got a bonus episode for you this week. So go ahead and check this out. |
| 0:33.1 | Awareness of God's acceptance, awareness of your identity is what gives you the ability to live the Christian life. |
| 0:39.2 | One of the best examples of this is John chapter 8 where Jesus, a woman comes and she's been caught in adultery. |
| 0:45.7 | You know, a story, famous story where Jesus says, let him who is without sin among you cast a first stone. |
| 0:50.7 | And everybody kind of stares at each other awkwardly, drops their rocks, |
| 0:54.4 | and goes home, and then Jesus looks at her and says, where are your accusers? And she says, |
| 0:57.4 | there are none Lord. Jesus says, these words, neither do I condemn you, go and send no more. |
| 1:03.6 | What's always kind of made me marvel at Jesus's statement there is the order he put the two |
| 1:08.8 | phrases in. You ever think about that? Neither do I condemn you. |
| 1:13.2 | Go and send no more. What's amazing is I would almost always instinctively reverse those. |
| 1:18.8 | I'd almost always say, if you go and send them more, then I won't condemn you. But watch this. |
| 1:24.7 | Jesus put acceptance before change because he knew she'd never have the ability to change |
| 1:32.1 | until she'd felt the strength of acceptance. He knew she could never break the cycle of sin |
| 1:37.1 | until she had the assurance of a stronger love that she's found in the father. I mean, we don't know |
| 1:42.3 | what drove this woman's sin. We don't know anything about her. But I know for a lot of people, what they're seeking in sexual intimacy, |
| 1:48.7 | what they seek in sexual immorality is because they're missing something that they can really |
| 1:53.2 | only find in God. I don't know, maybe she had multiple lovers. Maybe she'd been treated wrongly |
| 1:57.3 | throughout her life. Maybe she missed the love of her father. Who knows? |
| 2:06.4 | Jesus knows she's never going to have the ability to resist the sexual temptation until she's felt a love in the father stronger and better than anything she was looking |
| 2:11.4 | for in the arms of a man. |
| 2:12.6 | So he gives her the assurance of his love before he gives her the command to change |
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