The way we put to death the deeds of the body is by filling up our minds with the Word of God,

especially promises, and chapter 8 is full of them, promises, and cherishing those promises,

and banking on those promises, and delighting in those promises, and restingishing those promises and banking on those promises and

delighting in those promises and resting in those promises and treasuring them

more than we treasure the thrill of pornography or whatever your besetting sin might be

before you go to bed tonight.

When you hear kill sin, what comes to mind?

Grit, white-knuckling it, or just trying harder?

Well, John Piper says that the way we put sin to death is through filling our minds with promises so that we treasure them more than

sin itself. I'm your host, Dan Kruver. In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper shows us how

Romans 8 arms us to fight with better pleasures. This message was originally delivered on July

8, 2003.

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and death.

For what the law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did.

Sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin,

he condemns sin in the flesh in order that the just requirement of the law

might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh but according to the spirit.

For those who live according to the spirits set their minds on the things of the spirit, and those who live according to the spirits set their minds on the things of the

spirit and those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh.

And the mind that is set on the flesh is death. And the mind that is set on the spirit is

life and peace because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God.

It does not submit to God's law.

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