Law & Gospel (with Chad Bird)

Hey guys, this is Justin.

Maybe you know that you are forgiven because of Jesus Christ, but you're wondering: what does Jesus have to do with my Christian life?

How is he involved in my sanctification, even?

Or is he concerned at all with the ways that I struggle and the way that my life goes up and down?

Is there any comfort for me in Jesus when it comes to all of that?

Well, I've written a book called More Than Forgiven: How Being in Christ Changes Everything, that deals with this topic from Romans chapter 6.

You can find this book at theocast.org.

This morning, we're going to do what we're calling as a live podcast recording, which is what it is.

We want this is to be a pretty free-flowing conversation between the three of us, and we're going to go here, there, and everywhere a little bit and hope that it's an encouragement to you.

If there is time, I think we've got this space until noon.

If there's time, we might open it up for QA, and those questions would be of a law and gospel nature.

And if we are just rolling up here and we don't get to the QA, then that's going to be okay.

All right, so we're going to kick this live podcast off, speaking a little bit autobiographically.

A lot of times it's helpful for all of us when we hear other people's stories, we connect with that.

And we're not going to give the entire story for each of us of how we got to where we are now.

We've talked about that a little bit more.

What we're going to try to do is talk about where we came from and what that meant for us.

Here's what life was like for us before we understood the law and the gospel, and what that meant in terms of how we thought about God, how we felt about God, and how He looked at us, what we

thought about Christianity, what we thought about the church, anything like that.

And maybe some of these things will resonate with you.