Ep 267: Overcoming Sin Through The Spirit

About this episode

The episode discusses how God enables believers to overcome sin through the power of His Spirit, reflecting on a sermon from Matthew 5:27-30 about lust and adultery.

In this first (official) installment of my semi-weekly ‘Theology Thursday’ series, I discuss how God enables us to overcome sin through the power of His Spirit. Reflecting on a recent sermon I heard from Matthew 5:27-30, in which Jesus equates lust with adultery and then instructs his audience to gouge out an eye or cut off a hand if it causes them to sin. While Jesus is obviously using hyperbole, he doesn’t in this passage explain precisely how one is to over the temptation of adultery (or a...

People in this episode

Host: Alex Bernardo

Topics covered

• overcoming sin
• theology
• Christian teachings
• power of the Spirit
• lust and adultery
• hyperbole in scripture

Keywords

• overcoming sin
• Holy Spirit
• Christianity
• Matthew 5
• lust
• adultery
• theology
• sermon

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Matthew 5:27-30

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