Waging War on SIn

Romans 1:28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge

God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do

what ought not to be done.

Jer 17:9 The heart is more

deceitful than all else And is desperately

sick; Who can understand it?

It’s one thing for sin to live in us; it’s another for us to live in sin.

- John Murray

1 Cor 6:19-20 do you not know that your body

is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your

own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your

body.

1 Cor. 2:2 For I decided to know

nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

James 1:14-15 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed

by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives

birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

James 4:1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among

you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war

within you?

Mark 14:3-9 While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in

the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head. Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume? It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages and the money

given to the poor.” And they rebuked her harshly. “Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are

you bothering her?

She has done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, and

you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. Truly I

tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done

will also be told, in memory of her.”

Matt. 6:24 Do not love the world or the things in the world.

If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Matt 13:44 The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a

field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy

he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Find the things that stir your affections for Christ and saturate your life in them. Find the things that rob you of that affection and walk away from them. That’s the Christian life as easy as I can explain it for you.”

- Matt Chandler

Labor, therefore, to fill your hearts with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.

- John Owen