There's some research on positive self-affirmations and there's an article I love to teach about this. People who suffered low self-esteem, it spiked their self-esteem really well for a moment and then it plummeted them down deep into donuts. If you feel like you're defiled and encumbered with shame and repulsive and rejected and unwanted because you're in Christ, you are declared pure, perfect, righteous and holy. That's what can undo negative self-talk or these identity things. You are called what Jesus actually is and that's the scandal.
Most Christians know about the forgiveness of sins, but not the doctrine of active obedience. But how do we become righteous if not through imputation? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland explain what is meant by the active obedience of Christ and why there’s no hope without it.