You know by faith I'm his, I'm loved, I'm accepted, I'm justified, I'm in him, I'm dead already, I've passed through judgment into eternal life.

And the mark of that is hatred for sin.

Because you love him so much for that.

Have you declared war on your sin,

or are you coasting through a peacetime mindset?

In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper turns to Romans 8, 10 to 17 to call Christians to wage relentless war against our sin.

This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on February 17, 2002.

Two weeks ago, I directed your attention to verses 12 and 13, and I do so again. I had four

questions that I thought needed to be answered, and we answered one of them.

And now we have three more to take up this morning, or perhaps two and a half.

Verse 12, So then, brethren.

Stop, stop right there.

The so then at the front of that verse directs your attention to verse 11,

which talks about being raised from the dead someday by the work of the Holy Spirit.

So we owe the Holy Spirit our future resurrection of these mortal bodies. The Spirit

who dwells in you will give life someday to your mortal bodies, just like He raised Jesus from

the dead. So then, brethren, we are not debtors.

We're not under obligation to the flesh.

It's never done anything for us.

This old rebellious self of ours.

You don't owe the flesh anything but war, enmity, killing.

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