Something that I wish Christianity would speak more of is the normal battle with sin, or I would put it this way, temptation.

Temptation is a normal experience.

That word normal, that's the key.

We think that as you grow in Christ, temptation gets less, and that is not what Paul says about our experience.

It's a very important conversation to understand that you

will not only struggle with sin, meaning that you're not going to be giving into it, but the temptation

of sin will probably increase throughout your life. And Paul tells us some very important ways

to think about it and how to endure it. Really important conversation today. If you're struggling,

you feel the weight of temptation, just beating you down, this episode's for you.

Hey, guys, this is Justin. Maybe you know that you are forgiven because of Jesus Christ,

but you're wondering, what does Jesus have to do with my Christian life? How is he involved

in my sanctification even? Or is he

concerned at all with the ways that I struggle and the way that my life goes up and down? Is there any

comfort for me in Jesus when it comes to all of that? Well, I've written a book called More

Than Forgiven, how being in Christ changes everything that deals with this topic from Romans

chapter 6. You can find this book at Theocast.org.

Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ. We have conversations here

about the Christian life from a confessional reformed and we hope pastoral perspective. We try to

take the clutter off of the gospel. We want Jesus to be really clear. We want to extol and exalt

him as much as possible so that we might find our rest and are all in him. If you are tuning in right now, you just missed like the Theocast gag reel that was going on before we started recording this episode. Only our back-in production guys got to hear that fun stuff. So anyway, maybe one day we'll air some of these things and nobody will ever listen to us again. You mean can you give them the potential title we're going to use? No, we can't. We can't. We've got to keep something secret, John. Secrets. Your hosts today in all seriousness, or at least semi-serristen, so John Moffat, pastor of Grace Reformed Church in Spring Hill, Tennessee, and I am Justin Purdue, pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina. We're going to try to say some encouraging things to those of you

out there, but a few announcements before we get rolling, we know this is everybody's favorite

segment of the pod, because everybody skips through them. The Theocast community, just want you to be

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