bloodofthelamb:
Janeyinspires God bless you. May grace and peace be multiplied unto you.

This has been my stand and conviction. The more we come to terms with who we are now in Christ, the more we are transformed.

This is the truth.Do remain in His grace.

solite3:
thanks for your mention,
My view concerning this issue and indeed the biblical view is that,
yes when a when a man is born again he is a new creature but he has a choice to walk in this new nature or not.

Galatians 5:16-18 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

note that the unsaved man does not have the Spirit so Paul isn't talking about the unsaved man.

in the early church Paul had to caution a lot of believers, against living like unbelivers and we are told as believers to put on the new man

Ephesians 4:24
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Colossians 3:10
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:


A believer will struggle with sin if he does not come to terms with his new status.

Again as believers we grow into the image of Christ as we focus on him,

2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.



Romans 8:8-13 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.

Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

naturally, we are pulled towards sin but the presence of Christ in us have broken that power but we have a choice to live after the flesh or after the Spirit.

Truly edifying. Thanks for your wisdom. More Grace to you sir.

Jus saw these today will respond by His Grace later