12-17-2011, 06:31 AM
If you are trying to subdue your dead flesh...then you are doomed to failure. Which you must know by now. Christ lived a Life that we could not, and to do and finish a work, which we could not, nor cannot.
He is The New Man, who lives His Life in and through us. Our old man has been put to death, and is no longer us, we being transfered from darkness into Light.
According to God, we are to consider ourself to be dead to and freed from the power of sin, which is not in God's Kingdom within us...we are not still alive to it, we have been freed from and have died to its power, not still being a slave to it.
We died with Christ, was buried with Him, and was raised to Life with Him...we are right now seated with Him in the Heavens according to what God says. If we have His Holy Spirit dwelling within us, we are a NEW Creation, the old creation has passed away.
The Apostle Paul understood who it was that was the sinner...and it was not The Saint, whom He and all those who have been born again was/are.
"But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me." Romans 7:20
Those whom Christ has set free, is free indeed...Rejoyce!
He is The New Man, who lives His Life in and through us. Our old man has been put to death, and is no longer us, we being transfered from darkness into Light.
According to God, we are to consider ourself to be dead to and freed from the power of sin, which is not in God's Kingdom within us...we are not still alive to it, we have been freed from and have died to its power, not still being a slave to it.
We died with Christ, was buried with Him, and was raised to Life with Him...we are right now seated with Him in the Heavens according to what God says. If we have His Holy Spirit dwelling within us, we are a NEW Creation, the old creation has passed away.
The Apostle Paul understood who it was that was the sinner...and it was not The Saint, whom He and all those who have been born again was/are.
"But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me." Romans 7:20
Those whom Christ has set free, is free indeed...Rejoyce!