Set Free from Sin
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The gospel brings a double cure for sin: Jesus frees us from sin’s guilt and from sin’s reign. Today, Sinclair Ferguson considers how our union with Christ liberates us to embrace a new life of joyful obedience to the Lord.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
Sinclair Ferguson is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow, vice-chairman of Ligonier Ministries, and Chancellor’s Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | If we are not set free from the reign of sin, we have no choice but to sin. |
| 0:05.5 | But knowing that we've been set free from its reign, that that's who we are, liberates us. |
| 0:12.9 | We are on, as I remember being taught as a child, we are on the victory side. |
| 0:24.1 | The victory side. That's a great description. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to renewing your mind. I'm Nathan W. Bingham. |
| 0:33.1 | Because of what Jesus did for us, you and I are no longer under law, but under grace. |
| 0:39.3 | So the question is, why do we still struggle with sin? |
| 0:43.3 | How exactly has our relationship to sin changed now that we have Christ in us? |
| 0:48.9 | These are important questions, and we'll explore them today with Ligonier's vice chairman, |
| 0:54.1 | Sinclair Ferguson. |
| 0:55.0 | Before we do, we're featuring these messages from his series on our Union with Christ |
| 1:00.0 | to mark the release of his new book, a companion book to the series. |
| 1:05.0 | It's titled Union with Christ, The Blessings of Being in Him. |
| 1:10.0 | We'll send you a hardcover copy, along with unlocking |
| 1:13.3 | lifetime digital access to the series and study guide when you give a donation in support of |
| 1:19.2 | this daily outreach at Renewing Your Mind.org. I'll be sure to remind you at the end of today's |
| 1:25.0 | episode. Well, here's Dr. Ferguson in Romans chapter six. |
| 1:32.2 | Paul begins with a response that, in a sense, is pure emotion to the question, will we continue |
| 1:40.1 | in sin in order that grace may abound? And then he gives his explanation as to why he has responded |
| 1:47.2 | that way. He understands that he is a Christian believer who has been baptized into Jesus Christ. |
| 1:55.1 | He has a new identity. He has been given a new name. He belongs to a new family. And therefore, it follows logically |
| 2:04.8 | and ought to follow spiritually that he lives out the new family lifestyle. He's no longer in Adam, |
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