Yesterday, 11:19 PM
(14-06-2024, 11:25 PM)Oyk Wrote: As to the words in bold in your first para, some peepur may wonder why Christians still sin when you wrote that no one who's born of God will continue to sin
They don't understand that there's a new man in us that's in Christ and without the Sin DNA. Without that sin nature, the new man will not sin. The one who continues to sin is the old man.
Many made remarks like "The Christian life is impossible," "God, You made me this way," "I'm only human."
When Christ died on the cross and was buried, believers who placed their faith in Him as their Saviour and Lord died and were buried to sin. Their old self was crucified with Christ so that the body of sin might be done away with, that they should no longer be slaves to sin.(Rom 6:6) But has sin disappeared 'cos we've died to it? No. Has the power of sin diminished? No, it's still strong and appealing.
We live in a body, the physical body. Our soul, aka 'old man,' is our mind, will, emotions. Our spirit is the real we. When we made that decision to become a new creature in Christ, God's Holy Spirit comes to live in our spirit (new man). Our spirit comes alive to God and wants to do what's good. There's much more to a person than the physical body we see. The spiritual part is just as real. The Bible teaches us to live by the things of the spiritual realm, things we don't see and to value unseen things more than the things we see with our physical eyes.
Our body - the flesh - and spirit are often in conflict. For example, on a Sunday morning when you wake up, your spirit says. "Let's go to church!" but your body says, "I don't want to get out of this bed." Some people may obey the body and go back to sleep; other people will follow the spirit and say, "Body, I don't care how you feel - we're going to church!"
After a person is born again, the flesh wars again the spirit, and vice versa. They're continually antagonistic toward each other. (Gal 5) The Bible does not say the lusts of the flesh will go away and you'll never be tempted. The flesh (old man) with all its tendencies to sin will keep warring against the spirit, or tries to boss it around.
However, the Bible does say if we walk in the spirit, we won't fulfill the lusts of the flesh. (Gal 5:25) When sin makes its appeal, we've the power to say no to it 'cos our relationship with sin ended when the Lord "rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves." (col:13)