Podcasts about indwelling sin

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Indwelling Sin and its Aim Against Our Spiritual Duties Subtitle: Indwelling SinTreatise Speaker: John Owen Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 6/19/2025 Length: 38 min.

For the right performance of any duty, it is not enough that the thing required be itself performed, but that it be universally squared and fitted to the rule72 of the duty. Herein lies the great duty of the mind: namely, to attend to the rule of duties, and to take care that all the interests of such duties be ordered by such care. Our progress in obedience is our edification, or building up.

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Deceitfulness of Indwelling Sin - Chapter 8 Subtitle: Indwelling SinTreatise Speaker: John Owen Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 6/4/2025 Length: 38 min.

The ground of this efficacy of sin by deceit is taken from the faculty of the soul affected with it. Deceit properly affects the mind; it is the mind that is deceived. When sin attempts any other way of entrance into the soul, as for example by the affections, the mind—retaining its right and sovereignty—is able to give check and control to it. But where the mind is tainted, the prevalence of sin must be great, for the mind or understanding is the leading faculty of the soul.

It is said that indwelling sin leads the soul captive "to the law of sin"—not to this or that sin, particular sin, or actual sin, but to the "law of sin." God, for the most part, orders things and gives out such supplies of grace to believers so that they shall not be made a prey to this or that particular sin. He ensures that sin should not prevail in them and compel them to serve it in its lusts. He ensures that sin should not have dominion over them, so that they should be captives and slaves to it.

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Captivating Power of Sin - Indwelling Sin - 7 Subtitle: Indwelling SinTreatise Speaker: John Owen Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 5/31/2025 Length: 28 min.

Indwelling sin's persistence and urgency seem to be noted in this expression of its "warring." Enemies in war are restless, pressing, and persistent; so is the law of sin. Does it set upon the soul? Cast off its motions, and it returns again. Rebuke them by the power of grace. They withdraw for a while, and return again. Set before them the cross of Christ. They do as those that came to take Him: at the sight of Him, they went backwards and fell to the ground, but they arose again and laid hands on Him (Joh 18:6-13). Sin gives place for a season, but returns and presses on the soul again.

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: A Treatise on Indwelling Sin - Chapter 6 Subtitle: Indwelling SinTreatise Speaker: John Owen Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 5/26/2025 Length: 43 min.

There is in sin an aversion to God and everything of God, as we have in part discovered in handling the enmity itself, and so shall not need much to insist upon it again. All indisposition to duty in which communion with God is to be obtained; all weariness of duty; all carnality or formality to duty—it all springs from this root.

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Treatise On Indwelling Sin - Chapter 4 - Aversion to God Subtitle: Indwelling SinTreatise Speaker: John Owen Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 5/24/2025 Length: 22 min.

Whatever is opposite to anything, as such, is opposite to all of it. Sin is enmity to God as God, and therefore to all of God. Not His goodness, not His holiness, not His mercy, not His grace, not His promises—there is not anything of Him that sin does not make head against. Nor is there any duty, private or public, in the heart or in external works, that sin does not oppose.

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Treatise On Indwelling Sin - Chapter 4 Subtitle: Indwelling SinTreatise Speaker: John Owen Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Sunday Service Date: 5/22/2025 Length: 18 min.

Has anyone the perfect measure of his own light and darkness? Upon the proposal of an endless variety of objects for its exercise, can anyone know what acts of choosing or turning away his will will bring forth? Can anyone traverse the various changes in his affections? Do the secret springs of acting and refusing in the soul lie before the eyes of any man?

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Treatise On Indwelling Sin - Chapter 3 Subtitle: Indwelling SinTreatise Speaker: John Owen Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 5/21/2025 Bible: Romans 7:21 Length: 22 min.

If such a law of sin in believers, it is doubtless their duty to find it out, to find it so to be. The more they are aware of its power, the less they will feel its effects. It will not at all advantage a man to have a wasting fever and not to discover it, or a fire lying secretly in his house and not to know it. So much as men find of this law in them, so much they will abhor it and themselves, and no more. Proportional also to their discovery of it will be their earnestness for grace, nor will it rise higher.

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Treatise On Indwelling Sin - Chapter 2 Subtitle: Indwelling SinTreatise Speaker: John Owen Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 5/20/2025 Bible: Romans 7:21 Length: 19 min.

Many men live in the dark to themselves all their days; whatever else they know, they know not themselves. They know their outward estates, how rich they are. And they are careful to examine the condition of their bodies as to health and sickness. But as to their inward man and their principles as to God and eternity, they know little or nothing of themselves. Indeed, few labor to grow wise in this matter; few study themselves as they ought.

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Treatise On Indwelling Sin - Chapter 1 Subtitle: Indwelling SinTreatise Speaker: John Owen Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 5/19/2025 Length: 17 min.

Many things seem to render the handling of indwelling sin at this season necessary. We see the effects and fruits of it in the apostasies and backslidings of many, the scandalous sins and errors of some, and the course and lives of the most. This seems to call for a due consideration of it.

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Treatise On Indwelling Sin - Preface Subtitle: Indwelling SinTreatise Speaker: John Owen Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 5/14/2025 Length: 4 min.

Understanding what it means to be free from indwelling sin.

Christian believers will be tempted to sin. How are we to understand what goes on in temptation? Where is God when we are tempted? How do we lay hold of the resources to resist and come through these times of agony? These and other crucial questions are considered in this week's episode.   Featured Resources: – 'Lead Us Not Into Temptation', Sinclair B. Ferguson, Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 145 (October 1975). – Excerpt from William Bridge, A Lifting Up for the Downcast (1649; repr. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 2024), Chapter 7, 'A Lifting Up in the Case of Temptation', p. 214–220.    Further Reading: Bridge, William, A Lifting Up for the Downcast Gurnall, William, The Christian in Complete Armour (single volume or abridged in three paperback volumes) Owen, John, Temptation Resisted and Repulsed (abridged and made easy to read by Richard Rushing) Owen, John, The Mortification of Sin (abridged and made easy to read by Richard Rushing) Owen, John, Works, Volume 6: Sin and Temptation (includes full text of On the Mortification of Sin in Believers, Of Temptation, Indwelling Sin, and A Practical Exposition of Psalm 130)     Explore the work of the Banner of Truth: www.banneroftruth.org Subscribe to the Magazine (print/digital/both): www.banneroftruth.org/magazine Leave us your feedback or a testimony: www.speakpipe.com/magazinepodcast

O God, help us to feel worse about our own shortfalls than the failure of others.

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: How Indwelling Sin Leads to Backsliding Subtitle: Indwelling SinTreatise Speaker: John Owen Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Sunday Service Date: 3/8/2025 Length: 34 min.

If the utmost diligence and carefulness be not used to improve and grow in this wisdom, then indwelling sin, working by the vanity of the minds of men, will insensibly bring them to content themselves with slight and rare thoughts of these things—without a diligent, persistent endeavor to give them their due improvement upon the soul. As men decay in this, so will they assuredly decay and decline in the power of holiness and close walking with God. The springs being stopped or tainted, the streams will not run so swiftly, at least not so sweetly, as formerly.

What does it mean to become who you are in Christ? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 7:14–25 to show how Christians battle sin by living in their God-given identity.

What role does the mind play in the Christian life? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Romans 7:14–25 to show the vital connection between a renewed mind and the fight against sin.

How much freedom from sin should Christians expect in this life? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper unpacks Romans 7:14–25, showing how believers fight sin's persistence.

Where do we find hope in our ongoing struggle with sin? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 7:14–25 to explore the hope of future redemption.

How do we hold on to hope in the face of failure? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Romans 7:14–25 to reveal how union with Christ transforms despair into confidence.

When we face failure as Christians, what's actually happening? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper explores Romans 7:14–25 to reveal the hope in the midst of our struggle.

When sin feels overwhelming, where can we find hope? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 7:14–25 to stress both the reality of indwelling sin and the power of God's grace.

How should Christians respond to our ongoing war with sin? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper unpacks Romans 7:14–25, showing how believers can battle sin while clinging to gospel hope.

Is Romans 7:14–25 describing a Christian or not? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper shows how God's righteousness in Christ transforms our view of sin and the law, regardless of the answer.

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: How Indwelling Sin Entangles The Affections Subtitle: Indwelling SinTreatise Speaker: John Owen Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 12/25/2024 Bible: James 1:14-15 Length: 20 min.

The affections are certainly entangled when they stir up frequent imaginations about the proposed object to which this deceit of sin leads and entices. When sin prevails and the affections are gone fully after it, it fills the imagination with the object, possessing the imagination with images, likenesses, and appearances of the object continually. Such persons "devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds."

Discover powerful biblical strategies to overcome besetting sins with Dr. Joel Beeke. Drawing from Puritan wisdom and Scripture, learn practical steps to mortify sin and live in victory through Christ.In this deep-dive conversation, Dr. Beeke unpacks:- The Puritan concept of "bosom sins" and how to identify them- Why zero tolerance for sin is essential for Christian growth- How to use accountability partners effectively- Practical wisdom from Thomas Watson and John Owen- The "fight or flight" approach to temptation- Why watchfulness is crucial for spiritual victory

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Habitual Decays in Grace -Indwelling Sin Treatise Chapter 15 Subtitle: Indwelling SinTreatise Speaker: John Owen Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 10/21/2024 Bible: Romans 8:6 Length: 46 min.

Indwelling sin works by sloth and negligence. It prevails in the soul to neglect the stirring up of continual thoughts about the things that so powerfully influence it to strict and fruitful obedience. If care be not taken—if diligence and watchfulness be not used, and all means that are appointed of God to keep a quick and living sense of them upon the soul—they will dry up and decay.

Enmity exerts itself is opposition. Enmity will oppose and contend with what it is at enmity with. Things natural and moral work this way also: as light and darkness, heat and cold oppose each other, so do virtue and vice. So is it with sin and grace. The apostle says, "These are contrary the one to the other" (Gal 5:17)—that is, they are placed and set in mutual opposition, and that continually and constantly, as we shall see.

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Root of Indwelling Sin - Hostility to God - Christian Experience Class Subtitle: Christian Experience Speaker: Thomas Sullivan Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Podcast Date: 10/20/2024 Length: 37 min.

The Final Chapter of a Treatise on Indwelling Sin, --The more believers are aware of indwelling sin's power, the less they will feel its effects.- -Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.- -The great wisdom and security of the soul in dealing with indwelling sin is to put a violent stop to its beginnings, its first motions and actings.- -To let indwelling sin alone is to let it grow- not to conquer it is to be conquered by it.-

The Final Chapter of a Treatise on Indwelling Sin, ""The more believers are aware of indwelling sin's power, the less they will feel its effects." "Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before." "The great wisdom and security of the soul in dealing with indwelling sin is to put a violent stop to its beginnings, its first motions and actings." "To let indwelling sin alone is to let it grow; not to conquer it is to be conquered by it."

Sin, indeed, maintains an enmity against all duties of obedience, or rather against God in them. -When I would do good,- says the apostle, -evil is present with me- -Rom 7-21--that is, -Whenever I would do good, or whatsoever good I would do -that is, spiritually good, good in reference to God-, sin is present with me to hinder me from the good, to oppose me in it.- On the other side, all duties of obedience lie directly against the actings of the law of sin- for as the flesh in all its actings lusts against the Spirit, so the Spirit in all its actings lusts against the flesh.

Sin, indeed, maintains an enmity against all duties of obedience, or rather against God in them. -When I would do good,- says the apostle, -evil is present with me- -Rom 7-21--that is, -Whenever I would do good, or whatsoever good I would do -that is, spiritually good, good in reference to God-, sin is present with me to hinder me from the good, to oppose me in it.- On the other side, all duties of obedience lie directly against the actings of the law of sin- for as the flesh in all its actings lusts against the Spirit, so the Spirit in all its actings lusts against the flesh.

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Indwelling Sin's Opposition To God Manifested in Neglecting Special Duties Subtitle: Indwelling SinTreatise Speaker: John Owen Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 9/1/2024 Bible: Romans 7:21 Length: 30 min.

Sin, indeed, maintains an enmity against all duties of obedience, or rather against God in them. "When I would do good," says the apostle, "evil is present with me" (Rom 7:21)—that is, "Whenever I would do good, or whatsoever good I would do (that is, spiritually good, good in reference to God), sin is present with me to hinder me from the good, to oppose me in it." On the other side, all duties of obedience lie directly against the actings of the law of sin; for as the flesh in all its actings lusts against the Spirit, so the Spirit in all its actings lusts against the flesh.

O God, help us to feel worse about our own shortfalls than the failure of others.