Jesus is (Always) Our Advocate

Grace & Truth with Owen Strachan

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Dr. Owen Strachan discusses how God sees believers in moments of sin. He emphasizes the need for a Christ-centered approach to sin and highlights four truths to help handle sin in a healthy and hopeful way.

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0:00.0	When you sin, does God start hating you?
0:13.8	This is a very live question.
0:15.6	We've talked about it before, but I sense that many Christians do not understand how God sees the believer in our moments of sin.
0:25.0	Welcome to Grace and Truth. My name is Owen Strand. I will be your host. Please subscribe to this
0:28.7	podcast on all platforms. It is a joy to think through this with you today. Here's the deal. I think
0:35.5	that a lot of believers have a slightly wrong understanding of how
0:39.7	God sees us in our normal moments of sin. Now, I want to make a quick disclaimer here. I'm not
0:45.3	talking about the most egregious sins that you and I commit. I'm not calling, I'm not talking
0:50.6	about what you could call, in other words, career destroyers. That is a real category of sin. We need to handle that. We need to understand such sin and work through it. And the grace of God still applies for those kind of sins. However, those have to be handled with a great deal of care and sensitivity. Where there is serious sin, there is going to be serious consequences. That is absolutely
1:12.6	my view, and that is what the New Testament teaches. There are some sins that can altogether
1:18.2	destroy things in a major irreversible way. But I want to talk to believers about more the ordinary
1:26.3	experience of sin. Sin is never good. We never
1:29.2	excuse sin, of course. However, we also have to absolutely, as New Testament, Christians
1:34.4	be realistic about sin. And I fear that a lot of times we are so idealistic with regard to the
1:41.0	holiness of God, which is a very good instinct that we don't rightly apply the gospel and gospel truth to our daily experience of sin.
1:51.0	How can we frame this?
1:52.8	How can we start talking about this entire reality in a healthy but honest and hopeful way.
2:01.8	Well, here is a great text, just two verses to go to, to frame this discussion.
2:06.6	It's 1 John 2, 1 and 2.
2:09.6	John writes this, my little children, I'm writing these things to you so that you may not sin,
2:16.6	but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
2:22.7	He is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
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