Mortification

Mortification. The process of “putting to death” one’s sinful nature (the old self), which continually struggles because of the reality of indwelling *sin. This process takes place in the lives of believers who, while they have been set free from sin’s dominion by the indwelling Holy Spirit who unites them to Christ, are called to live in light of God’s *grace as they actively work out their salvation.- Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition

A holy self-denying, cross-bearing life, is not the drudgery of a slave, but the filial, loving obedience of a child; it springs from love to the person, and gratitude for the work of Jesus; and is the blessed effect of the spirit of adoption in the heart. ---Octavius Winslow