Just a thought:- We were born in sin, and sin is our nature. However, when you are born again, Greater lives within you. Greater empowers you to resist sin. Everyday, there must be a crucifying of the flesh, so that the spirit man can be strengthen.
Now they are many who think this is impossible to achieve. They argue that we are only human, and it is only natural to sin. True, but when you are born again sin must be resisted. Read Romans 6:1.
Oh yes, I know that King David sinned. He took another man's wife, got her pregnant, and then had her husband killed. However, when confronted by the Lord, he repented but his son still died. #sincostsRomans 6:23 reads, "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Yes, I know that Paul was a murderer. However, when Jesus confronted him on the road to Damascus, he stopped killing. Not only that, he started preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ with fervency, leading millions to Christ and eventually he gave his life for the gospel.
And what about Peter? He was a fisherman with a nasty mouth! However, there is no mention of Peter using his mouth to do anything other than preach the gospel after the day of Pentecost.
We were all born in sin but Romans 6:12 says, "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God."
Paul says in Romans 12 :1 King James Version (KJV)
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.'
Finally, 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
"For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God."
