HOW DO WE PUT SIN TO DEATH?
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I. ACKNOWLEDGE: SIN IS DECEITFUL
I. ACKNOWLEDGE: SIN IS DECEITFUL
22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
II. FOUNDATION: THE CROSS OF CHRIST
II. FOUNDATION: THE CROSS OF CHRIST
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
“So the death of Christ in our place is always foundational for our defeat of sin. The basis for our conquering sin is always Christ’s canceling sin.: John Piper
“So now we find ourselves loved by God, accepted, adopted into his family, forgiven for all our sins, and justified—all because of Christ. In this condition of profound security and assurance, the Bible says to us, Pursue “the holiness without which no one will see the Lord” (Heb. 12:14). “Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able” (Luke 13:24). “Whoever says ‘I know him’ but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him” (1 John 2:4). In other words, conquering canceled sin is essential if we are to be finally saved. Not because sins can be uncanceled, but because the will to kill canceled sin is the necessary sign that it is canceled” Piper, John. Acting the Miracle (p. 127). Crossway. Kindle Edition.
11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
7 For one who has died has been set free from sin.
III. SOURCE OF POWER: THE HOLY SPIRIT
III. SOURCE OF POWER: THE HOLY SPIRIT
13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
IV. EMPOWERED TO CHOOSE: THE WILL
IV. EMPOWERED TO CHOOSE: THE WILL
12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
The Epistle to the Philippians a. Work out Your Salvation, for God Is at Work in You (2:12–13)
It involves continually living in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ (Phil. 1:27) or ‘the continual translating into action of the principles of the gospel that they had believed’.30 Paul has in mind a ‘continuous, sustained, strenuous effort’, which is elsewhere described under the imagery of a pursuit, a following after, a pressing on, a contest, a fight, or a race (Phil. 3:12; cf. Rom. 14:19; 1 Cor. 9:24–27; 1 Tim. 6:12).
ACTION: PUT TO DEATH
ACTION: PUT TO DEATH
5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.