Ask Pastor John Dying to Live
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Mar 23, 2026 A dive into what it means to be a “living sacrifice” and how believers are both dead to sin and alive to God. The talk traces how presenting our bodies ties to renewing the mind and changing our evaluations and desires. It explores spiritual worship as preferring God’s enjoyment, the death of old longings, and practical resistance to social pressure through new desires.
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Living Sacrifice Means Dead Old Self Alive New Desire
- Being a living sacrifice means experiencing the decisive death of the old self and living for God's righteousness.
- John Piper links Romans 12.1 to Romans 6.6 and 6.13 showing the old self is crucified and members now serve righteousness.
Mind Renewal Rewrites Desire And Evaluation
- Renewing the mind changes how we evaluate right and wrong, not just what we know.
- Piper connects Romans 12.2 to Romans 1's debased mind and explains renewal alters desires and judgments about beauty and desirability.
Colossians Ties Death And Renewal Together
- Paul links death of the old self and renewal of the new self in Colossians 3 to show these commands work together.
- Piper cites Colossians 3:3–10 describing putting to death earthly practices and being renewed after God's image.
