Licensed to Kill: A Field Manual for Mortifying Sin (Biblia.com)

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The Christian life is not a playground, but a battleground. One of the fiercest foes in this battle dwells within our own hearts: the enemy of indwelling sin. The Scriptures command us to “put sin to death.” This is what pastors and theologians of another generation called the “mortification” of sin. But how do we mortify sin? And what role does the gospel play in this effort to apply lethal...

John Owen, “Be killing sin or it will be killing you.”[1] Theologians of past generations, following Romans 8:13 in the KJV (“if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body”), called the duty of killing sin mortification. We do not often use the word mortification today. When we do, we usually mean humiliation. If I say, “Michelle was mortified,” I mean that she was really embarrassed about something. But Paul isn’t talking about being embarrassed. When he commands us to “mortify the deeds

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