Review: Freedom from Sin’s Dominion by John Owen
This is one of the most painful books in this series. It is a book which “wounds and heals” as you’ll see throughout the review.
Imagine this scenario. You’ve been feeling a pain in your stomach for the last several weeks. You finally decide that you should get it looked at. The doctor has some bad news. It’s cancer. Stage four. You only have a few weeks to live.
You leave the office stunned but suddenly thinking of things beyond the current time; you don’t have long to leave - at least here on earth. You begin thinking of the eternal things. That’s just what this book does to us.
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Freedom from Sin’s Dominion by John Owen
Book info
P. #: p. 137
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Author: John Owen (1616-1683)
Life: Called the “prince of the English divines,” Owen was one of the greatest theologians of his era if not of all time. We’ve talked about Owen before, so I don’t want to spend too much time on him here. His biography is lengthy, but I will give some highlights. From a young age, he loved the theology of the Puritans. Interestingly enough, he actually struggled with assurance of faith for quite some time until God called him into ministry. He entered Queen’s College, Oxford at the age of 12 where he became well acquainted with the classics, mathematics, philosophy, theology, Hebrew, and Greek.
General info about author: Owen was a theologian, puritan, pastor, author of dozens of books, husband, and father of 11, although none of them lived long enough to have children of their own.
Overall Summary/review:
Continuing in the illustration of cancer, this book both wounds and heals (x, xi).
The book is built upon Romans 6:14 and is split into 3 major parts (p. 7, table of contents)
The first chapter of the book serves as an introduction to the rest of the contents, and right from the very beginning, Owen does not shy away from speaking the truth (p. 5)
From here he moves to part one which deals with the nature of sin’s dominion (p. 11, 16, 20-21)
In part two, he deals with the signs of sin’s dominion (p. 35, 45, 62, 65, 66).
Then finally, in part three, we learn about Assurance: he doesn’t leave us with fear of sin’s dominion, but brings us back to Christ (p. 92, 103, 111, 133).