Embracing Holiness: The Journey of Sanctification

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"Therefore, put to death or mortify your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Because of these things, the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which you yourselves once walked." [00:13:03]

"Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all." [00:14:15]

"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him." [00:15:15]

"Put to death your earthly desires, your earthly members. Put it to death, he says. The word that he uses here in the Greek, it means literally to slay utterly. It means to kill, mortify. You might see if you, I believe it's in the King James Version, it uses the word to mortify the deeds." [00:26:02]

"The Christian mortifies sin because he is at peace with God. You hear what he's saying? The Christian kills sin because he is at peace with God. The legalist mortifies to try to be at peace with God. You see the difference? We're not trying to be at peace with God." [00:31:18]

"Put to death, mortify. The verb put to death or mortify is used now. I'm gonna, again, I hate getting technical with you, but it helps to understand. It's used here in an aorist tense, which means, which means do it. The aorist tense means do it, do it effectively, producing a definite result." [00:32:42]

"Sin will not die on its own inside of you. It must be killed. The price has already been paid. Jesus has conquered sin. Now there is a war inside of you as a believer that is raging, the spirit and the flesh, and which one will get control, which one will have the power." [00:34:14]

"If we do not put sin to death in a practical sense, it will corrupt and overcome. Let me take you back to the story of Agag and the Amalekites. Do you remember that story? God had said to Samuel, you tell Saul to go there and you kill them all. Sound familiar? Utterly kill, utterly destroy." [00:36:51]

"Destroy your earthly nature that has a propensity to do all the bad stuff. That's what he says back to Colossians. He says, oh, I'm in Ephesians. Therefore, put to death your members which are on the earth. The idea here is that you put to death your fleshly propensity, nature, earthly nature." [00:39:40]

"Are you willing to take the steps that are necessary to deal with the sin, that nature, that propensity to pursue sexual immorality, to pursue uncleanness and impurity, to pursue malice and anger, and all of those other? Are you willing to step up, take the king out of the prison, and hack it?" [00:41:00]

"Are you willing to experience a conviction of the Holy Spirit, and when it comes, then you go through the power of God, not through anything and of yourself? Are you willing to do that? I pray that you are. Next week we will talk about the sins, but I'll have some practical things." [00:41:44]

"Thank you for your word, wonderful word. Thank you that Jesus has accomplished everything. It is finished, he said. Everything is accomplished. He now sits at the right hand of the Father. Thank you for all of the benefits that come along with that, too numerous to name. We praise you for those things." [00:42:26]

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