Dr. Mayfield provided very useful overviews of the 8 chapters from Owen’s book on Mortification of sin. If you are at war with sin, then these brief videos should give you plenty of help in your fight.
He explains very clearly how a believer must depend upon God’s Spirit in this work.
I have been struggling to understand these things for the past 15 years and have not heard anyone explain this warfare so well.
There are 4 parts to this series on mortification, please read them in order, part 1 of 4 then, 2 or 4…to be instructed in the order this material was presented by Owen.
Chapter one from Owens book:
Chapter two:
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Jeff Mayfield has served as senior pastor of Stony Hill Baptist Church since September 2013. Having attended church since birth, the Lord saved him during his second year of college. Soon after he was called into the Gospel Ministry and was prepared for that work through studies at Liberty University (B.A.) and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div. and Ph.D.).
Jeff is the husband of Adrienne and the father of nine children: Jude, Eli, Ava, Belle, Evangeline, Lillian, Phoebe, Solomon, and Calvin. Jeff enjoys preaching, biblical studies, history, theology, and mentoring other Christians. For fun he likes spending time with his family, hiking, running, biking, roasting coffee, and photography. [stonyhill.org]