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Messages by Desiring God

Do Not Let Sin Reign in Your Mortal Body, Part 1

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

John Piper, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Desiring God, 163859, Preaching, Christianity, Messages, Religion & Spirituality, Sermons

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🗓️ 5 November 2000

⏱️ 3 minutes

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It's chapter 6, versus 11 to 14.

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Even so, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body,

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that you should obey its lusts.

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And do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments

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of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead and your members as instruments

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of righteousness to God.

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For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace. Well, Father, I ask for your help now in delivering this word so that I do it in a right spirit and according to truth.

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Help me to be faithful to what's in the text

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and not to say anything amiss nor to awaken

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any affections that are carnal or out of proportion to your truth.

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I pray your protection on us from Satan and I pray that our hearts would be sensitive to your

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leading and your illumination.

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And so I pray for the conversion of sinners who are without Christ still.

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And for the strengthening of Saints and the purifying of all our lives that we would resist

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sin and give ourselves holy to God for your great purposes in the world.

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I ask this in Jesus name, amen.

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One of the greatest privileges of my life is to be able to spend so much time

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dealing in the greatest realities in the universe that I find in the Bible.

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I am privileged to be commissioned to study and to pray to figure things out and to commune with

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God over his word and then to try to think through how to say things that I find there.

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That's an awesome privilege. I do live in the real world. I live in the same world you do I have to brush my teeth and I have to put storm

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