You cannot fight sin successfully until your sins are forgiven.

Say it another way.

The only sin that you can triumph over in practice is a sin that Christ has died for on your behalf.

Say it another way. If he had not died to take away our condemnation, we cannot make any

progress in sanctification. What does justification by faith have to do with our daily battle against sin?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper opens Roman 6, 11 to 14, to explore how this foundational doctrine empowers our

battle with sin.

The sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on November 12, 2000.

Last week we looked at the battleground of these verses and the participants and I want to review

that briefly with you so that you can be up to speed if you weren't here last week or even if you've

forgotten.

Number one, there's a throne or a rain.

Do not let sin rain in your mortal bodies.

Verse 12.

V. Again, there's a challenge or challenge. in your got one who rains, don't let him rain.

Verse 12 again, there's a castle, that's my image, not Paul's,

where sin threatens to rain, namely the human body.

Do not let sin rain in your mortal body. Do not let sin reign in your mortal body.

Fourth, again in verse 12, there are servants in the castle that may go over to the other side of the enemy, join the conspiracy, and become enemy agents in the castle against the king.

Do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

Desires are supposed to be good for us.

They're supposed to give us guidance and serve us.

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