How to Kill Sin - Romans 8:10-17

"Be killing sin, or sin will be killing you."
-John Owen

Do you long to be the kind of person who gets up when knocked down? And instead of planning revenge, plans fresh strategies of love; and instead of questioning God, submits to his wise and good sovereignty; and instead of whining, rejoices in tribulation and is refined like steel? People like that don't come out of nowhere. They come out of the fiery furnace of warfare with sin — fought mainly in their own souls.

Until you believe that life is war — that the stakes are your soul — you will probably just play at Christianity with no blood-earnestness and no vigilance and no passion and no wartime mindset.

If that is where you are when you read this, your position is very precarious. The enemy has lulled you into sleep or into a peacetime mentality, as if nothing serious is at stake. And God, in his mercy, may have appointed this sermon series — on how to kill sin in your life — to wake you up and put you on a wartime footing.

• How to Kill Sin (Part One), Romans 8:10-17
• How to Kill Sin (Part Two), Romans 8:10-17
• How to Kill Sin (Part Three), Romans 8:10-17