The Life-Long Struggle, Part 2

Summit Life with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Ever feel like you’re living a double life? There’s one side of you that wants to do the right thing and another that doesn’t want to do it at all—and that can’t be right, because you’re a Christian, and you think you shouldn’t struggle with sin anymore. In today’s message from Romans 7, Pastor J.D. looks at the battle within every Christian and how knowing you have ultimate victory should change your outlook in the fight.

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0:00.0	Today on Summit Life with JD Greer, you died to the law as a means of elevating your status
0:06.0	before God and others. You died to the law as a means of saving yourself. You died to the law
0:11.1	as a means of guaranteeing secure into the future. And you said my only hope is the grace of Jesus
0:15.4	Christ. And when you understand that and when you receive His love in the gospel, that's what
0:20.3	begins to change your heart to make you start to love God again.
0:30.9	Thanks for joining us for another great week of biblical teaching here on Summit Life with
0:36.7	Pastor JD Greer. As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitavitch. Can you relate to the Apostle Paul?
0:42.8	He was so torn between his desire to do good and the ongoing sin in his life and his
0:48.2	solution was to cling desperately to the mercy of God. In our teaching today, Pastor JD continues
0:54.9	in Romans 7, where Paul outlines his personal struggle with sin. We'll see how acknowledging the
1:01.4	battle with sin and our ultimate victory over it doesn't just change how we view the fight.
1:06.5	It also changes how we view God's grace and mercy. Pastor JD continues his message titled
1:12.8	the Life Long Struggle. Colossians 3 verse 9, he says, put off the old self with his practices and
1:21.3	put on the new self. What's interesting is that he calls them both selves. They're both us.
1:26.5	They're both me. I got two knees in there in one sense, even the one who's dead. The two selves are
1:32.0	both in you. They're both working against each other. Listen, this is what most people don't
1:36.7	understand about the Christian life. When you become a Christian, the old self doesn't go away.
1:44.0	He doesn't even lose his strength. You kind of think like you just sort of like become a better
1:48.3	virgin. That's not true. Then the old bad you is in there with all of his or her old strength.
1:53.9	Many people, many Christians think of the Christian life like they think of it like your heart is
1:58.4	this pot of water. And before you become a Christian, it's ice cold. And so becoming a Christian is
2:04.0	like Jesus, the stove, turning on under you and all of a sudden your heart starts to boil up
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