Katie from Palm Bay, Florida and Jared Bridgman. Both sent in this clip at the same time.

It's from a message John Piper delivered titled, How to Kill Sin Part 2, which he preached

on February 17th, 2002. Here's a clip of what he said in that sermon.

Ed Welch wrote a book last year, published last year called A Banquet in the Grave.

It's a great title. It's taken from a proverb. It's a book on addiction. Addictions, I commend it to you.

This is a sentence from an article that he wrote in preparation for that book. There's a mean streak

to authentic self-control. Self-control is not for the timid. When we want to grow in it,

not only do we nurture an exuberance for Jesus Christ, we also demand of ourselves a hatred

for sin. The only possible attitude toward out of control desire is a declaration of all

out-war. I hear so many questions murmuring about their imperfections and their failures and

their addictions and their shortcomings and I see so little war. Mermer, mermer, mermer, mermer.

Why am I this way? Make war. If you wonder how to make war, go to the manual.

Don't just belly ache about your failures make war. He says, I'm continuing the quote.

There is something about war that sharpens the senses. You hear a twig snap or rustling of the

leaves and you are in attack mode. Someone coughs and you are ready to pull the trigger even

after days of little or no sleep war keeps us vigilant. There is a mean violent streak to the true

Christian life. But now let's very carefully ask violence against whom or what?

Not other people. Not other people. Not other people. Not Muslims. Not Hindus. Not Buddhists.

Not atheists. Not secularists. Not nominal Christians. Not wives or husband or children or

ordinary bosses. But on every impulse in our soul to be violent to other people.

Violence, a mean streak in Christianity against our own selves and all in us that would make peace

with sin and a settling in peacetime mindset. We make war on that in us.

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