#killing sin

John Owen

If you want to kill your selfishness, focus on more than your selfishness. Fill your soul to overflowing with Christ.

If Christians are born again and have therefore died to sin, why do we need to fight so hard to put sin to death?

Remember your corruption enough to humble yourself, but forget whatever keeps you back from pressing on toward Christ.

The fight, the striving, the narrow, the hard, the work, the warfare is not a striving to get Christ. It is a striving precisely to rest.

At the cross, Christ canceled all our sins through his blood. Now, by the Spirit, we work to conquer every canceled sin.

Addressing sin and repentance may sound harsh to some, but genuine biblical preaching names and denounces specific sins.

When we obey sin, we obey a liar, a deceiver, a murderer. Sin is a slave master who tricks his subjects into eternal death.