Why didn't the Bible just teach me to defeat sin by asking the Holy Spirit to do it?

Why isn't prayer the be-all and end-all of this battle?

So here comes a temptation to either feel discouraged about finances or to feel fearful because you're sick or to feel proud because you did something right.

Why at that moment isn't the way of killing that?

Simply say, Holy Spirit, I ask you to come now and defeat the sin of my life.

Amen.

And it's done.

Asking you will receive, right? Wrong. Why? Jesus gets no glory

if you're doing that way. What does it mean to kill sin in a way that honors Christ? In this

episode of Light and Truth, John Piper explores Romans 8, 10 to 17 to show how putting sin to death by the Spirit magnifies Christ.

He begins by summing up the previous episode.

This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on April 7, 2002.

When you read Romans 813, if you put to death the deeds of the body by the spirit, you will live.

By the spirit now, I have taken to mean setting your mind on the things of the Spirit.

I went over to 1 Corinthians and saw that means the Word of God.

I went to Ephesians 2, 6, 17.

I saw the sword of the Spirit by which you kill is the Word of God.

And then we went to Galatians where it says,

if you want the Holy Spirit to move in power in your life and defeat sin in your life and work, miracles in your life,

don't do works to try to impress God and earn things from God.

Listen, listen, listen, listening, listen.

Hearing with faith, hearing with faith, hearing with faith.

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