Enmity Expressed as Aversion

By John Fast

Having considered in our previous studies the nature and power of this law of indwelling sin, especially its hostility to all that is God (Rm 8:7), we turn in this study to investigate more thoroughly the ways in which this hostility manifests itself. This enmity is real and powerful, but power is only revealed in something that has life, and the strength of life is discovered by the strength of its actions. Read more »

Indwelling Sin as Enmity

By John Fast

In our last two studies we identified five attitudes and behaviors toward indwelling sin which make it obvious whether a person is a child of God or is still a child of the devil (1 Jn 3:10). Nothing can be more clear than that Jesus came into the world to redeem sinners (1 Tm 1:15), and that which He redeems sinners from is sin; “…it is He who will save His people from their sins” (Mt 1:21). Read more »

Our Attitude And Behavior Toward Indwelling Sin – Part 2

By John Fast

An often neglected and forgotten biblical truth is that the only true and saving faith is the faith which perseveres to the end (Mt 24:13; Col 1:22, 23; Jm 1:12; Rv 3:12). Equally neglected is the truth that God tests the sincerity of a person’s faith by trials and temptations, Read more »

Our Attitude and Behavior toward Indwelling Sin – Part 1

By John Fast

All deception is bad, self-deception is worse, but self-deception in things pertaining to salvation is the most terrible deception of all. For a person to pretend to be what they know they are not is gross hypocrisy and fraud. Read more »

The Heart, The Seat of Indwelling Sin

By John Fast

In our last study we considered indwelling sin as an internal law or principle and the properties which rightly make it a law; that is, its power and effectiveness. In a true Christian the law of indwelling sin has lost its power, “knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin” (Rm 6:6). Read more »