Indwelling sin always abides while we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.
~John Owen~
Overcoming Sin & Temptation (Wheaton, IL; Crossway Books; 2006) p. 50.
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Owen – On Killing Sin
2 May
Do you mortify;
do you make it your daily work;
be always at it while you live;
cease not a day from this work;
be killing sin or it will be killing you.
~John Owen~
Overcoming Sin & Temptation (Wheaton, IL; Crossway Books; 2006) p. 50.
Owen: Can We Expect a Comfortable Event?
22 Apr
If, then, sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures. He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue. If sin be subtle, watchful, strong, and always at work in the business of killing our souls, and we be slothful, negligent, foolish, in proceeding to the ruin thereof, can we expect a comfortable event? There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so while we live in this world.
~John Owen~
Overcoming Sin & Temptation (Wheaton, IL; Crossway Books; 2006) p. 52.
Owen: Sin Aims Always at the Utmost
20 Apr
Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, might it have its own course, it would go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could; every covetous desire would be oppression, every thought of unbelief would be atheism, might it grow to its head.
~John Owen~
Overcoming Sin & Temptation (Wheaton, IL; Crossway; 2006) p. 53.
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