Real Truth Matters Podcast Michael Durham

Send us a Text Message.Sanctification is the work of God conforming Christians to the image of Christ, meaning it is the process the Lord uses to make us more like Jesus. But what role does our sanctification play in our having confidence we have been genuinely saved? In this episode, we continue our study of the assurance of salvation by looking at this question. Should we get assurance from our progress in sanctification or not? Listen as Michael Durham explains.

Send us a Text Message.Continuing our theme on assurance of salvation, today, RTM speaker Michael Durham explains the relationship between confession of sin and assurance. The two are related and confession plays a vital role in your experience of assurance. Many express confusion on why the Bible requires confession of sin when all our sin is already forgiven in Christ. It is very true that we are forever justified, but sin must still be confessed in real-time. The benefit is enor...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, Michael Durham continues to show how a biblically informed mind needs to think for doctrine to become experiential, meaning real and felt. Too many Christians think that learning doctrine is the goal. The more information they learn about God, the more they assume they know God. But that is only half of the process of knowing God personally and spiritually. Please listen and learn that you can have a real, intimate relationship with the Lord, which will...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, we resume our examination of the assurance of salvation. The lack of assurance is from a lack of knowing God on a personal level. Assurance is based, in large measure, on how accurate one's knowledge of God is, and how the doctrine of God is translated into a felt conviction. In this episode, Michael Durham begins to show the mental work commanded in Scripture that converts the truth in the brain to the truth that the heart knows and feels. This will be...

Send us a Text Message.In this final episode, guest associate evangelist Nathan Freeman and Michael Durham discuss the ongoing work of the Spirit in the believer's life. Is there more of the Spirit for each believer to experience? Please listen and discover that you can have more of His gracious influence in your life.

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, join RTM evangelist and director Michael Durham alongside RTM associate evangelist Nate Freeman as they discuss the sealing work of the Holy Spirit as distinct from the baptism with the Holy Spirit.This is the third installment of a discussion between the evangelists on the work of the Spirit, which started as a review of Martin Lloyd-Jones' position on the sealing of the Spirit being the same thing as the baptism of the Spirit.While the two works of th...