Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host Felicia Masonheimer and I am here to teach you how to know what you believe to live it boldly and to communicate it graciously to the world around you.

I believe that women are ready to go deeper in their faith than ever before,

and they don't have to go to seminary to do it.

I am so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because

every woman is a theologian. Hello friends and welcome back to Verity Podcast. We are in the fourth episode of the

beginner believer series and this week we're going to talk about a question I

think all of us have asked after we came to faith in Christ. Why have I not stopped sinning? What do I do when I'm

struggling with sin after salvation? I think a lot of us come to Christ maybe thinking that by coming to Christ becoming a Christian

we're just never going to struggle with sin ever again. And while Christ does call us to holiness and he does expect us to grow in holiness, that process is not overnight.

But what's really crazy is that in some cases you might hear a testimony where someone says

I was delivered out of this sin overnight swearing or drinking or pornography or something like that

and yet you're over here and you haven't been immediately delivered

from whatever your besetting sin struggle is.

And so that can lead to a lot of questions and second guessing

and doubt about your salvation and hopefully this episode can help clear some of

that up as we go to scripture and find out what it says about sin. So first let's define what sin is. The word for

sin in the Bible literally means to miss the mark. To miss the mark. Well what is the mark? What's the mark we're aiming for?

Well the thing that we're trying to hit, the target is God's holiness. And when we try to achieve God's holiness on our own, we can't do it because we are born into broken flawed bodies in a broken and flawed world. We can go back to Genesis 3 to see where this all began.

Now there are different views on what Adam and Eve's sin in Genesis 3 did to the rest of humanity. Some theological

perspectives take the view that we inherited the guilt of Adam and Eve.

So Adam's sin is our sin.

We inherited his guilt and we need to be reconnected to God and have that sin removed from us.

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