To fight your sin you must know what you’re up against.
Knowing Sin: To fight your sin you must know what you’re up against.
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“A Proper Understanding of Grace Requires a Thorough Grasp of Sin”–Mark Jones in Knowing Sin
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“I know of no other contemporary volume on sin that sets forth orthodox doctrine with such precision while searching the heart of the reader at such depth.”- Shao Kai “Alex” Tseng
Knowing Sin
One of the things I appreciate about the Bible is that it’s neither optimistic nor pessimistic, but realistic. Grace is not shallow and hope is not a wish. Scripture doesn’t leave us with the nagging hollowness of the hope that we’re not really that bad, nor does it leave us in despair upon seeing how bad we really are. It is completely realistic about our sin and at the same time bursting with real hope because Jesus really lived a sinless life, died the death that we deserved, and was raised for our justification. There is something so settling to me about not needing to pretend I’m better than I am, and so relieving to know that I am both fully known in my sin and fully loved by God in Christ.
Knowing Sin is not a fun read, but it is hopeful. It brings the kind of hope and clarity that comes with facing your fears, knowing what you’re up against, and seeing the way forward. Better yet, it shows what Jesus has already done and how you can “put off your old self” and “put on the new self.” It helps us to see sin with greater clarity and to understand why it is so evil. It also brings blessed, Biblical clarity to misunderstandings about sin that can cause a great deal of confusion and pain to individuals, the Church, and culture when not understood rightly. Each chapter is relatively short, but meaty, and each one ends with an application that pulls together why understanding each aspect of sin is important. May Knowing Sin help you to better understand your enemy, to grow in gratitude for Jesus, and encourage you in your fight against sin as you hold on to the living hope we have in Christ.
Each chapter, whimsically named after a song, includes a section for application
“You need this book as much as I do. We both need this book because we are both sinners, both natural haters of God and haters of our fellow man. If we are to obey God's call on our lives to put sin to death and come alive to righteousness, we must wage war against that mortal enemy, sin. But to successfully battle our enemy we need to know our enemy. In the pages of this book, you will come to know sin, learn to hate it even more, and learn why (and how) you must become free from its captivity.”- Tim Challies
“Sin: the reality of its universality is evident to all, yet modern men and women so frequently refuse to own up to this hard-core fact of human existence. But what is even more devastating is that far too many professing Christians today downplay the seriousness of what the Puritans rightly regarded as the plague of sin. In this incisive examination of what these very same Puritans can teach us about sin, Mark Jones has produced a much-needed, solidly biblical study for our modern dilemma of ostrich-like denial. A necessary read!”- Michael A.G. Haykin
Knowing Sin
“What doctor would receive our respect if he offered a cure without a careful diagnosis? Yet we shy away from a thorough diagnosis of the deadly illness of our souls—the inward evil of sin. Mark Jones takes God's holy Word, which penetrates and reveals with far more accuracy than any medical scan, and shows us the heinousness of sin so that we may find healing from the Great Physician. This book draws from the biblical wisdom of the Puritans and other classic Reformed writers to offer radical insight into the nature of sin and a great help to those who want to mortify the enemy within.”- Joel R. Beeke
“In a world where depressing news abounds, why pick up a book that tells us how bad we really are? After reading Mark Jones's Knowing Sin, the answer will be obvious: because we need to. Knowing Sin made me uncomfortable. It's methodically specific. It's agonizingly comprehensive. It's personal. It's unrelenting. And it's biblical. Aided by some long-departed Puritan friends, Mark identifies the origins of our sin problem, clears up a multitude of misunderstandings about sin, gives us fresh reasons to hate sin's sinfulness, and opens our eyes to sins we should be fighting but are probably ignoring. Most importantly, he leads us to embrace the joyful truth that forgiveness and righteousness are found in Christ's perfect life, substitutionary death, and triumphant resurrection alone. I've pondered and quoted Mark's book to others for weeks, and expect I'll do so for years to come. It's that good.”- Bob Kauflin
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