I actually start thinking of ways to combat sin more clearly when I'm expressing what I'm going through to someone else.

You don't need a lot of people like this, but you need at least one accountability partner for the things you struggle with.

Dr. Beakey, thanks for sitting down. You know, one of the common questions that many people struggle with is the issue of

indwelling sin.

You would maybe call them a bosom sin according to the Puritans, a besetting sin, a darling sin.

That one thing that maybe someone struggles with particularly, could be lust, it could be

worldliness, it could be covetousness. My question for you is, how do we kill, how do we mortify

indwelling sin in our lives from a biblical perspective?

Yes, well, it's great to be with you. This is a very personal question for everyone,

but there are some real concrete, biblical ways to kill indwelling sin. And the first thing I need

to say about it is you've got to really want to kill it because you're a new creation.

So you know the struggle of Romans 7, the good that I would, I find myself not doing,

and the evil that I would not do, I find myself doing, oh, rich a man that I am.

So the first thing to do when you want to kill sin is to fall flat on your face and confess,

you need God's help.

You need the Holy Spirit to help you do this.

And you need a constant reminder in your life about the dreadfulness of sin.

So one thing that helps me if I feel my conscience is getting desensitized is I go back

and read one of the great classics on the enormity and the heinousness and the dastardiness

and the anti-godness of this monster we call sin. So I'll go back to Thomas Watson,

The Mischief of Sin. Devastating book. I'll go back to Thomas Watson, the mischief of sin. Devastating book.

I'll go back to Relvinning, the Sinfulness of Sin or the Plague of Plagues. It goes by two

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