by John Owen – March 10th, 2019 Chapter 10 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Clear Sense of Sin 2. Get a Clear Sense of Your Sin The second direction for the mortification of sin in believers is this: Get a clear and abiding sense upon your mind and conscience of the guilt, danger, and evil of that sin … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
Answer: We live in a world of pain and suffering. There is no one who is not affected by the harsh realities of life, and the question “why do bad things happen to good people?” is one of the most difficult questions in all of theology. God is sovereign, so all that happens must have at least … More “Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?”
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage?(*) He retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. 19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins … More Who is a God Like Unto Thee
by John Owen – March 5th, 2019 Chapter 9 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Dangerous Symptoms (Continued) b. Secret pleas Secret pleas of the heart for its own defense, and to keep up its peace—notwithstanding the abiding of a lust, without a vigorous gospel attempt for its mortification—is another danger-ous symptom of a deadly distemper in the heart. … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – February 19th, 2019 Chapter 6 “WHAT MORTIFICATION IS” Continued 4. Summary Unto these heads, then, I refer the mortification aimed at—the mortification, that is, of any one perplexing distemper, whereby the general depravity and corruption of our nature attempts to exert itself. First, the foundation of mortification is the weakening of … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – February 13th, 2019 Chapter 6 “WHAT MORTIFICATION IS” Continued Limitations to this truth I shall desire to give one caution or rule by the way, and it is this: though every lust does in its own nature, equally and universally, incline and impel to sin, yet this must be granted … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – February 12th, 2019 Chapter 6 “WHAT MORTIFICATION IS” What it is to mortify a sin in general, which will make further way for particular directions, is next to be considered.(48) The mortification of a lust consists in three things. The first thing in mortification is the weakening of this habit of … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – February 10th, 2019 www.ChapelLibrary.org • chapel@mountzion.org Chapter 5“WHAT MORTIFICATION IS NOT”Continued 5. Not to Conquer Sin Occasionally Occasional conquests of sin do not amount to a mortifying of it. There are two occasions or seasons wherein a man who is contending with any sin may seem to himself to have mortified it. … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – February 8th, 2019 http://www.ChapelLibrary.org • chapel@mountzion.org Chapter 5 “WHAT MORTIFICATION IS NOT” Continued 3. Not to Improve a Quiet Nature The mortification of sin consists not in the improvement(41) of a quiet, sedate nature. Some men have an advantage by their natural constitution so far as that they are not … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – February 7th, 2019 http://www.ChapelLibrary.org • chapel@mountzion.org Chapter 5 “WHAT MORTIFICATION IS NOT” Continued 2.Not to Conceal a Sin I think I do not need to say it is not the dissimulation(40) of a sin. When a man on some out-ward respects forsakes the practice of any sin, men perhaps may look on … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
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