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Temptation: Applying Radical Amputation to Life’s Sinful Patterns (Jay Adams)
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What do you do when your spiritual fruit isn’t what it should be? You do what you would with the fruit of any type of tree: free it from what inhibits its growth by finding weak branches and cutting them off.
Here, Jay Adams unpacks the teaching of Jesus in Matthew 5 and shows us how to use the principle of radical amputation to develop spiritual fruit, putting on holy patterns of living by putting off our sinful ones.
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Temptation
Applying Radical Amputation to Life’s Sinful Patterns
Christians are commanded to grow. Once we are saved, spiritual fruit should be a natural byproduct. If the fruit isn’t there, the growth we are supposed to display is not happening. Yet many Christians find it difficult to bear fruit because their branches are weak. Temptation gets the upper hand and the old patterns of sin and bad habits creep back in and choke off the growth that should be taking place.
So what do you do when your spiritual fruit isn’t what it should be? You do what you would with the fruit of any type of tree: free it from what inhibits its growth by finding weak branches and cutting them off.
Here, Jay Adams unpacks the teaching of Jesus in Matthew 5 and shows us how to use the principle of radical amputation to develop spiritual fruit, putting on holy patterns of living by putting off our sinful ones.
The Resources for Biblical Living booklet series addresses a wide range of practical life issues in a straightforward, down-to-earth, and most of all, biblical manner.
Other booklets in this series are:
- Deception: Letting Go of Lying
- Fear: Breaking its Grip
- Bitterness: The Root that Pollutes
- Faithfulness: No More Excuses
- Selfishness: From Loving Yourself to Loving Your Neighbor
- Compassion: Seeing With Jesus’ Eyes
- Manipulation: Knowing How to Respond
- Discontentment: Why Am I So Unhappy
- Judgments: Rash or Righteous
- Self-Image: How to Overcome Inferior Judgments
- Problems: Solving Them God’s Way
About the Author
Jay E. Adams (PhD, University of Missouri) is a former director of advanced studies and professor of practical theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, as well as a retired pastor. He has written over fifty books on pastoral ministry, preaching, counseling, Bible study, and Christian living. His books include Competent to Counsel, The Christian Counselor’s Manual, and Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the Bible.
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