Kill Sin | Romans 6

We live in a culture rank with evil. Christendom once set the boundaries of cultural normalcy in the West, making some sins unthinkable and keeping others hidden because God’s standard of righteousness was acknowledged as good and true. The thought of mutilating children to appease the whims of sexual contagion or the concept of tearing apart infants in their mothers’ wombs would have been faced with swift and decisive punishment. What was once called evil is now called “good,” and what has been called good is now called evil. Our lord proclaims “woe” upon perpetrators of such wickedness.

However, in times like these, it is easy for the relatively moral to point to the egregious sins of our time while ignoring the sins which function as the root system for the overt decay of the age. Children conceived in godly marriages with providing and protecting fathers don’t get aborted. Sexual abuse does not occur without being preceded by lust. Tyranny cannot thrive without lies and theft. The root sins are the support system for the evil that must be purged. This sermon on Romans 6:1-23 and 8:12-17 is about killing sin in our own hearts to choke it out in society. As John Owens says, “Be killing sin or sin will be killing you.”