Author Archives: Hilltop Bible Church

Gaining the Consent of the Will By John Fast It is the incremental and progressive nature of indwelling sin which makes it so successful in enslaving people and ruling over their hearts and minds. It takes one step to gain another. If one path is obstructed by some barrier, it takes another route so that … Continue reading »

Enticing the Affections By John Fast We have seen that the first step in sin’s work of deception is to carry away, or draw away the mind from its obligation to God (Jm 1:14), as well as the means which God has given for our use to prevent and preserve our minds from being carried … Continue reading »

Carrying Away the Mind By John Fast We observed in our last study that the first aim of sin’s deception is to carry away the mind, to trick it into making false judgments, to lessen and belittle sin’s sinfulness and to scorn holiness, to draw the mind away from the things of the Spirit and … Continue reading »

Carrying Away the Mind By John Fast In our previous study we began to examine how indwelling sin opposes all that is spiritually good by way of its being deceitful, and that the ultimate goal of sin’s deceit is to bring about spiritual and eternal death (Jm 1:14, 15). We saw how it achieves its … Continue reading »

The Deceitfulness of Sin By John Fast Indwelling sin powerfully and actively opposes all that is spiritually good in two ways. In our last study we looked at the first of these ways, by strength and force, and the several ways in which it forcefully opposes all that is of God. In this study we … Continue reading »