Scripture says that if we mortify ourselves we shall live. We are all very clever, it seems, and those sins that we like, we like to keep. But we know our hearts, and more importantly, God knows our hearts. Therefore reckon the members of your earthly body as dead to illicit sex, filthiness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. For it is on account of these things that the wrath of God will come.
Vivification is a great, neglected doctrine of our faith.
It belongs to the same word family as words like, revive, survive, vitamin, or vivacious. If you think for a moment about these words they give the connotation of life, living, and existence. The theological term, vivification, has the use of life that is centered and found living in Christ. Hosea chapter 14 relates some of the future blessings for those who are in Christ. The chapter takes a sort of biological approach.