Understanding Sin, Wrath, and Our Union with Christ
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"Firstly, it's important to understand that the complete eradication of sinful desires is not achievable in this life. If it were, Paul's exhortation to wage war against sin would be unnecessary. Instead, the Christian life involves a continuous process of renewal, where we strive to align our desires and actions with our new identity in Christ. This transformation is ongoing and will only be complete when we are with Christ in eternity." [00:02:55]
"Paul would not be writing to Christians to get on with their warfare against sin if that were the case. Colossians 3 is not written as if during your first week as a Christian, you put a sinful desire to death and then for the rest of your life you never deal with it. That's not the way the New Testament reads at all." [00:02:37]
"There is a new self, that's what it means to be born again, to become a new creation in Christ, to be united to Christ so that His life is our life. This is a done reality for all true Christians, and the rest of the Christian life is to become what we are, to become in desire and in practice what you are in union with Christ." [00:04:23]
"The wrath of God comes upon both behavioral sin and upon sinful desires that lie beneath those behaviors. And I say that simply because that's exactly what the text says in Colossians 3:5-6. It says put to death and then it names five things: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry." [00:06:39]
"Becoming a Christian means that God unites us to Christ by faith so that His death, Christ's death on the cross, becomes the payment for all of our sins and the ground of all our total forgiveness for all the sins we will ever do, whether desires or actions." [00:08:41]
"The first answer to the question why the wrath of God will not fall upon us for the sins of our remaining evil desires is that Jesus paid the penalty for them and secured complete forgiveness. Wrath comes upon unforgiven evil desire. Christ bore the wrath for forgiven evil desire; therefore, it won't come upon us because we are forgiven." [00:09:57]
"The wrath of God will not fall upon true believers because we confirm our union with Christ and our state of acceptance with God and our forgiveness by the war we make on our sinful desires. Many people do not understand this; they think that if they are secure in Christ, then the battle against sinful desires is not essential." [00:10:50]
"If the battle is forsaken and we make peace with sin in our lives, then we fail to confirm that we are united to Christ. We fail to confirm that we are a new creation because the new creation in Christ was created for good works, for holiness." [00:11:31]
"If you live according to the flesh, you'll die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. In other words, if the Holy Spirit dwells in you, you will make war on sin in your life, and the result will be the escape from wrath and the enjoyment of everlasting life." [00:12:10]
"Not because the warfare against sin provides forgiveness—it doesn't work like that—but because it shows that we are forgiven, we are in Christ, we are a new creation. So in summary, no, there is no eradication of all evil desire in this life." [00:12:37]
"Yes, wrath is coming upon both sinful behavior and sinful desire, but that wrath will only come upon unforgiven sinful behavior and desire. We confirm that we live in the safety of God's forgiveness by hating and making war on our sinful desires by the Holy Spirit." [00:13:04]
"Speaking of evil desires in the Christian experience, we need to address the big debate over Romans 7 and whether Paul is there talking about the struggles of a believer or the struggles of a pre-believer." [00:13:45]
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"Paul would not be writing to Christians to get on with their warfare against sin if that were the case. Colossians 3 is not written as if during your first week as a Christian, you put a sinful desire to death and then for the rest of your life you never deal with it. That's not the way the New Testament reads at all." [00:02:37]
"There is a new self, that's what it means to be born again, to become a new creation in Christ, to be united to Christ so that His life is our life. This is a done reality for all true Christians, and the rest of the Christian life is to become what we are, to become in desire and in practice what you are in union with Christ." [00:04:23]
"The wrath of God comes upon both behavioral sin and upon sinful desires that lie beneath those behaviors. And I say that simply because that's exactly what the text says in Colossians 3:5-6. It says put to death and then it names five things: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry." [00:06:39]
"Becoming a Christian means that God unites us to Christ by faith so that His death, Christ's death on the cross, becomes the payment for all of our sins and the ground of all our total forgiveness for all the sins we will ever do, whether desires or actions." [00:08:41]
"The first answer to the question why the wrath of God will not fall upon us for the sins of our remaining evil desires is that Jesus paid the penalty for them and secured complete forgiveness. Wrath comes upon unforgiven evil desire. Christ bore the wrath for forgiven evil desire; therefore, it won't come upon us because we are forgiven." [00:09:57]
"The wrath of God will not fall upon true believers because we confirm our union with Christ and our state of acceptance with God and our forgiveness by the war we make on our sinful desires. Many people do not understand this; they think that if they are secure in Christ, then the battle against sinful desires is not essential." [00:10:50]
"If the battle is forsaken and we make peace with sin in our lives, then we fail to confirm that we are united to Christ. We fail to confirm that we are a new creation because the new creation in Christ was created for good works, for holiness." [00:11:31]
"If you live according to the flesh, you'll die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. In other words, if the Holy Spirit dwells in you, you will make war on sin in your life, and the result will be the escape from wrath and the enjoyment of everlasting life." [00:12:10]
"Not because the warfare against sin provides forgiveness—it doesn't work like that—but because it shows that we are forgiven, we are in Christ, we are a new creation. So in summary, no, there is no eradication of all evil desire in this life." [00:12:37]
"Yes, wrath is coming upon both sinful behavior and sinful desire, but that wrath will only come upon unforgiven sinful behavior and desire. We confirm that we live in the safety of God's forgiveness by hating and making war on our sinful desires by the Holy Spirit." [00:13:04]
"Speaking of evil desires in the Christian experience, we need to address the big debate over Romans 7 and whether Paul is there talking about the struggles of a believer or the struggles of a pre-believer." [00:13:45]
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