If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, says Paul, and second Corinthians 517, it's

an amazing statement.

In Christ, we participate in the new creation now.

We are new creatures.

We are regenerated.

We have been born a second time.

My inner man is raised from the dead by the spirit of Christ himself.

My sins are forgiven.

I have been crucified with Christ.

It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives within me.

As Galatians 2.20, there are so many glorious pictures of the victorious Christian life.

And yet, despite all these glorious new life realities, we still sin.

We are still duped by the world, by the devil, and by our own remaining evil within.

Some of the very same false promises that captured our attention as unbelievers continue

to catch our eyes as believers.

This is one of the great disappointments of the Christian life, to be so deeply different,

and yet so easily suckered into the same sins.

On Friday, we looked at whether our repentance is genuine, if we keep confessing the same sin,

that was APJ 1623.

Today, we address how do we reckon with our sin failures as redeemed Christians?

This is the key theme taken up in the following clip from a 2001 sermon by John Piper.

The clip was sent into us from a listener named Lucy in Woking, England.

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