A discussion of chapter 2 from my 2021 series reading through John Owen's Mortification of Sin together.

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God’s anger, even wrath, against our sin is righteous. It is right that He is angry, and it would be wrong if He were not. Our sin is an injustice against God our King and Creator, and God’s burning wrath against our sin is good.

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The psalmist, therefore, turns to having my eyes fixed on all your commandments. Should his eyes focus upon his own sin and shame, a kind of negative feedback loop will form, creating more sin and shame. Our only hope of breaking this cycle is to lift our eyes upon God’s Word, which reveals to us God Himself. 

A discussion of chapter 1 from my 2021 series reading through John Owen's Mortification of Sin together.

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The refusal to love God entirely is not a small sin to be overlooked. This is the great sin, the sin from which all others flow. Idolatry is the giving of our love to lesser things in place of the one true and living God. It rejects the loving relationship with our Creator in favor of slavery to our own passions and desires.

The introduction to my 2021 series reading through John Owen's Mortification of Sin together.

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Whenever we reject or simply ignore God and His established order of creation, we are like a coffee mug that rebels against the potter by trying to be a frying pan. The whole situation would be laughable if the consequences were not so dire.

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Therefore, let everyone that is out of Christ, now awake and fly from the wrath to come. The wrath of Almighty God is now undoubtedly hanging over a great part of this congregation. Let everyone fly out of Sodom: “Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.”

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This sermon is not a repeat of our dissecting of the Secular Creed. Instead, I am aiming to focus on the actual text of 2 Timothy 3:5 through the particular focus of how it presently applies to secularism in our day. That is by no means the only application of that verse. In Paul’s own day, he was probably thinking about ascetics who thought they were godly through how rigorously they punished their bodies. Such asceticism has only an appearance of godliness, but it ultimately denies its power. Yet today that description applies very fittingly to secularism, which is the de facto worldview here in the West.

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Rather than the gospel being an abolition of the law, as many Christians seem to think, the gospel eliminates our debt for breaking God’s law and writes His law upon our hearts, giving to us the freedom to actually choose obedience. Since we no longer have any fear of the condemnation that the law brings, we are free to see the beauty of the law as it reveals the will of our Father. Thus, it is in the law that we discover how to “be imitators of God, as beloved children” (Ephesians 5:1).

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