Hey so its been a long time since a blogged so I figured I should write something to try and keep this page somewhat relevant. Anyways I have really enjoyed reading this book recently called "The Mortification of Sin" by John Owen. Honestly this book is a MUST read in my mind for all Christians. Never have I been struck with the how serious the battle against sin is and how crucial it is not only to fight sin but to kill sin!
John Owen addresses how to kill sin and what it means, and how it is carried out. I love how he emphasizes how it is done ONLY with the power of Jesus Christ. Any killing of sin outside of the power of God and Christ is only pompous self-righteousness that will never last, so in reality its not killing the sin but temporarily wounding it. Owen emphasizes that we must have a violent mindsight in putting sin to death WITHOUT MERCY. We can not ever tolerate sin for one moment for that is when sin takes its foothold in our lives and erodes away the foundation that we are attempting to build.
Here are a few quotes that I love from this book:
"If you are not daily killing sin, it is daily killing sin"
What an amazing quote! How easily we forget how ongoing our battle is, this quote made me realize that each day is an individual battle and that day i either conquered sin and or it conquered me. This has forced me to really look at each day and wake up with the mindset that I am going to seek out and murder the sin in my life!
"It is a love for Chirst and a hatred for the sin that put Him on the Cross that should drive out Christian living"
Yet again what a great quote!! This is really what so much of our Christian life comes down to. Do we love Christ? Do we love him enough to hate the things that our flesh enjoys? Do we love him enough to act upon what are commanded to do? I pray that we may all love our Lord and Savior in a way that can only be describe as fanatical. We should truly be Jesus CRAZY! Our love for Him needs to overflow into every area of life and then such a love will call us to HATE the sin in our life and seek it out and crucify that sin so that it may never come between our relationship with God ever again!
So what you do you guys think, are you ready to live RADICAL lives for Christ that daily seeks out to kill sin and preach His Gospel? We have a great calling and it requires a fervor that is not of this world so lets pray for each other and keep each other accountable in this area!
P.S. If you want to borrow the book let me know
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Dude Matt.....
Let me just say that I am ready to live a radical life!!! This blog has pumped me up to put all my sin to death. Oh and I have a question,
If you don't mind, can you be my blog partner? This summer I wanna get deep in writing blogs, at least one a week, but in order for this to be done I need someone to push me, and maybe even I can push you if you want, so would that be cool?
And if you want to check out my blog site just click on my name on SOTD, by the way AWESOME BLOG BRO!!!!
Matt, legit blog!! I find this such a running theme in True North and your expression of the seriousness of fighting our sin is inspiring! Let's kill our sin and live with love for Christ!
I do believe the quote is "if you are not daily killing sin it is daily killing YOU". Awesome blog. I think im going to read that book now
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