Why Do I Still Struggle with My Pre-Conversion Sins?

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Every believer is already new in Christ, and yet vestiges of our old selves remain. We must fight every day to become who we already are.

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0:00.0	Why do my pre-conversion sins still haunt me?
0:08.7	That's the question today.
0:09.9	Here's the email.
0:10.9	Hello, Pastor John.
0:12.1	My name is Rico, and I have a question about past sins resurfacing.
0:16.6	Before I was saved a little over a year and a half ago, I was pretty badly addicted to
0:20.2	drugs.
0:21.2	I'm at the Lord Jesus, and literally all the desires to pursue drugs went away until about
0:27.1	April of this year.
0:29.0	I've fallen a few times, but God has been very gracious and merciful to me in carrying
0:33.6	me through these rough times.
0:36.0	So I guess what I'm asking is, how does this come about?
0:38.5	I thought I was done with that part of my life for good.
0:42.2	Why are my pre-conversion sin patterns coming back now?
0:46.8	Rico, let me give a short description of what the Bible teaches about what has already
0:56.0	happened to you.
0:58.5	Has a born again, believer in Jesus, and what has not yet happened to you.
1:06.0	And this will give you some biblical ways of thinking about what you are actually experiencing.
1:14.3	Let's put this description of the already of your life and the not yet of your life
1:20.5	into the larger biblical description of what Christ has already done in the world and
1:27.1	what he has not yet done in the world.
1:30.5	When Christ came into the world, you know this, he preached the kingdom of God.
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