A podcast and listen to her name Mappalo, right to end to ask this.

This is the follow-up to episode number 345 and what you asked, are you killing sin by

the Spirit?

Pastor John, what does this mean?

How do I kill sin by the Spirit?

All my thinking and praying and practicing on this point of killing sin begins with Romans

8.13.

If you live according to the flesh, you will die.

But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, there it is, by the Spirit

kill, put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

So, there it is from the very mouth of God, put to death, kill, slay, murder, the deeds

of the body, meaning the sinful ones.

And of course, it doesn't mean just make sure your body doesn't do bad things and doesn't

matter what your heart does.

Of course, that's not what Paul means.

He knows that bodily deeds that are wrong are rooted in hearts that are wrong and so

the killing has to begin at the root, or at least it has to go to the root, not just

to the fruit in the body.

So kill the deeds of the body means kill the root of temptation, the root of sin in your

heart.

The old word for put to death was mortify, but it's become so weak in our day because

lots of people think it means just being embarrassed, like, oh, I was just so mortified.

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