Join me to read John Owen’s classic book “The Mortification of Sin in Believers”. This book is one of the best that have ever been written about how to live a holy life. In this chapter we look at what mortifying a sin is NOT, before going to look at what it is. This chapter is important to the modern church because many counterfeits of mortification exist which look like the real thing but are substitutes. Topics covered in this chapter:

* What mortification of sin is NOT. In particular:

* it is not destroying sin in this life;

* it is not disguising sin;

* it is not improving our natural disposition;

* it is not diverting sin elsewhere;

* it is not an occasional conquest.

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