How do you know when you've overcome a sin on this edition of Truth in Love?

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified

Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the

problems that people face. At times we'll get questions here at Truth and Love about the topics

that we've addressed or the topics from an ACBC conference or a book that someone has written.

And one of those questions that's come in to us in recent days has been,

how do you know when you've overcome a sin?

This is a crucial issue.

People can wonder, how do I know if I've achieved victory?

How do I know if I'm out of the woods?

And so to help us process this a little bit is Amy Evanson, who's the producer of truth and love.

And Amy, what are the

questions that folks are asking about this topic? Well, Heath, people often talk about

struggling with sin. So what's the difference between struggling with sin and being enslaved

to sin? Okay, so I think that the difference is whether or not you were engaged in a fight.

So someone is enslaved to sin when they are totally given over to it, when sin is their master.

This is what Romans 6 talks about, that we are enslaved to sin

when we live our lives apart from Jesus Christ. Sin is our master and we have to do what it says.

And so we're completely given over to it. We don't have freedom and it's just the way we live

our life is by sin. Someone is struggling to it. We don't have freedom, and it's just the way we live our life is by sin. Someone is

struggling against sin when they are actively trying to fight. We wouldn't say they're

given over. In fact, we'd say that anyone who has come to trust in Jesus Christ is by definition

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