Hacking Sin to Pieces

Two weeks ago at our Men's Freedom Ministry meeting Dana Jensen talked to us about killing sin. He had in mind primarily sexual sin, but the following Biblical principles apply to killing sin of all kinds. Thanks Dana.

Thoughts on applying Romans 8:13:

1. We kill sin by hacking to pieces old sinful habits and cultivating new righteous habits.
2. The instrument of killing old sinful habits and cultivating new God-glorifying habits is the heart.
3. We kill sin by abstaining from fleshly lust (1 Peter 2:11 and 1 Corinthians 6:18).
4. We abstain from fleshly lust by making no provision for the flesh (Romans 13:14).
5. We abstain from fleshly lust by fixing our heart of Christ (1 John 3:3).
6. Sin is not killed when it is merely covered up (Proverbs 28:13).
7. Sin is not killed when it is only internalized.
8. Sin is not killed until the conscience is quiet.
9. Having a quiet conscience is a large part of effective evangelism.
10. Loud consciences are God's trumpet calling us to battle against sin.

I pray that you, with the guys in the Men's Freedom Ministry, will be challenged by these observations to put to death the deads of the body and LIVE!