Sermons About Mortification
The Spirit Helps us Kill Sin
The key to killing sin isn't how hard we can grit our teeth. It's the fact that we have a superior pleasure so satisfying that temptations lose their power. So what is this superior pleasure -- and how can we use this so put sin to death?
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Death That Leads to Life (Romans 8:12-14)
As Christians, we are debtors; not to the flesh, for it has never been our friend, but to the Spirit, who has given us life. This joyful obligation, as those who have received a precious gift, calls us to put sin to death -- to kill, or "mortify" it. This is a real battle that we must fight continually, but we do it not in our own strength, but in the strength of the very Spirit who gives us life.
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Sin in the City
Sin destroys God's plan and purposes for the City. But Christ came to overturn the curse of sin into a blessing. He works in us to put our sin to death, and through us to stop the spread of sin in the church & City.
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Put Sin to Death
Paul pulls no punches. In this passage he lays out seven sins which will bring God’s wrath on those who continue in them without repentance or change. But he also lays out the good news of the Gospel, which will bring us increasing freedom from these sins.
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The Christian's Inward Conflicts
Every day the real Christian battles the old nature of the flesh to walk in order to walk in the Spirit, In Song of Solomon chapter 6 we see this conflict pictured in the dialogue between the Shulamite woman and her beloved,
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Real Faith Takes Responsibility for Sin
In James 1:13-18 we are commanded to stop blaming God for our temptations and sins and accept responsibility for them so that we can put sin to death.
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The Greatest of All (Mark 9:33-50)
Because Christ is lord over all things, following Christ requires change in every area of our lives. In particular, we see in this passage that Christ's lordship changes how we think of ourselves, how we think of and serve one another, and how we battle sin. And because of his sacrifice and the power of the Holy Spirit, we are able to grow in living out these changed lives.
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Romans 7:1-25 Living Free in Christ 3
Sin’s presence deeply indwells who we are, but it is our transformed nature that can “Mortify†our sin and battle against it motivated by God’s love for us, and empowered by His Holy Spirit to do it. Killing off sin has more to do with knowing who we are and what power exists in us and how imbedded sin is in the human condition than it does using behavioral modification techniques to change the things we do not like about ourselves. Romans 7 gives a picture of the human heart that the principles need to be applied to, while Romans 8 tells us how these principles are to be applied for transformation to be a reality.
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He Appeared to Take Away Sins (1 John 3:5)
Jesus appeared to take away sins. This brings us great hope not only in justification -- our being made right with God -- but also in sanctification, as he empowers us in the battle against indwelling sin.
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