“We must fight against the passions with main force, not with artifice, and that the battle-line must be turned by a bold attack, not by inflicting pinpricks; that sophistry is not serviceable, for the passions must be, not nipped, but crushed. Yet, in order that the victims of them may be censured, each for his own particular fault, I say that they must be instructed, not merely wept over.” — Seneca, On The Shortness of Life
We cannot kill our sins by simple consent. It is not enough to merely wish your sins away. It is not enough to agree with God that they ought to go. We must mortify our sins. That is to say, we must engaged them in battle, hunt them down, stalk them where they live, and pursue them to point of annihilation when we have them on the run.
Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is idolatry.
We cannot be content with any cancer. We must pluck it out. We must cut it off and cauterize the wound. No point of re-entry should be unguarded and no hall passes should be provided.
Romans 8:13
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
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