Let me ask you a blunt question: what sin are you putting to death?

I don’t mean to be rude, and I certainly don’t mean to pry. I’m not your pastor and I’m certainly not accountable for you.

But I do know that the Scriptures teach that the mark of a Spirit-filled believer is someone who is killing off sin. ‘For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live’ (Rom. 8:13).

So central is this to the Christian life that the Apostle Paul makes this a mark of living, vital Christianity. Not wrestling with sin, notice. Nor simply battling with it. But actually putting it to death. The old-timers who went before called this discipline the mortification of sin, using the words of the Romans verse found in the King James Version.