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You have been a Christian for years, and you are more aware of your sin today than the day you were saved. That is not a sign that something has gone wrong. It may be the clearest sign that something has gone profoundly right.
Opening in Romans 5:20–21, Michael Durham takes up one of the most disorienting questions in the Christian life: why would a God who justifies us in a moment not sanctify us in the same breath? The question is not academic — it lives in every believer who has failed again, doubted again, and wondered whether their ongoing struggle is evidence that grace has not fully taken hold. Durham's answer is neither a comfort nor an excuse. It is something richer: God's purpose in leaving us imperfect is not a concession to our weakness but a deliberate display of His grace, one that could not be seen any other way.
From the mirror of the law that exposes without cleansing, to the ocean of grace that swallows sin without being diminished by it, this message moves the listener toward a reckoning — with the depth of their corruption and the even greater depth of what has been given to cover it. The Christian who feels more sinful at forty years of walking with Christ than at the beginning is not losing ground. He is gaining sight. And the grace that met him at the start has not been rationed out. It super-abounds still — not in spite of what we are, but precisely through it.
In This Episode
- Why God's glory is magnified more through a believer's ongoing struggle than through instant perfection
- What the law was designed to do — and why it cannot do what only grace can
- Why growing awareness of sin after conversion is a mark of spiritual health, not spiritual failure
- How the failures of this week are not evidence that grace has run out, but that we need more of it than we thought
- What it means that God loves us not merely in spite of our imperfections, but through them — as a father loves a child, not as a judge tolerates a defendant
- Why losing fascination with Christ is always cured the same way: seeing yourself as you are, and seeing Him as He is
Your remaining corruption is not proof that grace has fallen short — it is the very stage upon which grace continues to shine, and the deeper you see your need, the more precious He becomes.
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You have been a Christian for years, and you are more aware of your sin today than the day you were saved. That is not a sign that something has gone wrong. It may be the clearest sign that something has gone profoundly right.
Opening in Romans 5:20–21, Michael Durham takes up one of the most disorienting questions in the Christian life: why would a God who justifies us in a moment not sanctify us in the same breath? The question is not academic — it lives in every believer who has failed again, doubted again, and wondered whether their ongoing struggle is evidence that grace has not fully taken hold. Durham's answer is neither a comfort nor an excuse. It is something richer: God's purpose in leaving us imperfect is not a concession to our weakness but a deliberate display of His grace, one that could not be seen any other way.
From the mirror of the law that exposes without cleansing, to the ocean of grace that swallows sin without being diminished by it, this message moves the listener toward a reckoning — with the depth of their corruption and the even greater depth of what has been given to cover it. The Christian who feels more sinful at forty years of walking with Christ than at the beginning is not losing ground. He is gaining sight. And the grace that met him at the start has not been rationed out. It super-abounds still — not in spite of what we are, but precisely through it.
In This Episode
- Why God's glory is magnified more through a believer's ongoing struggle than through instant perfection
- What the law was designed to do — and why it cannot do what only grace can
- Why growing awareness of sin after conversion is a mark of spiritual health, not spiritual failure
- How the failures of this week are not evidence that grace has run out, but that we need more of it than we thought
- What it means that God loves us not merely in spite of our imperfections, but through them — as a father loves a child, not as a judge tolerates a defendant
- Why losing fascination with Christ is always cured the same way: seeing yourself as you are, and seeing Him as He is
Your remaining corruption is not proof that grace has fallen short — it is the very stage upon which grace continues to shine, and the deeper you see your need, the more precious He becomes.