Good morning spirit-led ones!
I want to ask you a question? Why do Christians still sin? What’s the matter? When we become born again, our human spirits are recreated and we receive the nature of God, but our minds and bodies are still the same. That’s why it’s imperative after we’re born again that we do what Romans 12:1-2 tells us,
- I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind…
So, when we became born again, we received God’s nature; therefore our struggle is against the flesh, which is our senses, not our spiritual nature. According in Romans 6:14,
- Sin shall not [any longer] exert dominion over you, since now you are not under Law [as slaves], but under grace [as subjects of God’s favor and mercy].
We have been delivered from our sinful nature. As Christians, we now have the divine nature of Jesus Christ.
See, under the nature of sin., we were children of the devil (see John 8:44), dominated and ruled by that sinful nature. However, when we became born-again, God replaced the nature of sin with His divine nature. 2 Peter 1:2-4 declares,
- Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
See, our spirits were recreated, not our souls (mind, will, and emotions)! The soul of a person has to be renewed (changed) by the Word of God. We’re tempted in our babyhood state to do foolish things, but that’s because we haven’t brought our minds and bodies into subjection to our spirits.
In Acts 9, we read about how Saul was breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord. When he was converted and became the Apostle Paul, he said that everything he had accomplished in the flesh was a loss compared to the knowledge of Jesus Christ (see Philippians 3:4-14).
We can choose to have confidence in the flesh or depend on Jesus Christ. As Christians, our spirits have been recreated. We have been made new creations in Christ (see 2 Corinthians 5:17). So, I encourage you to walk according to your recreated spirit and not according to your senses. If you’ll do this, Romans 8:6 tells us that we will walk in life and peace.
Walking in the Spirit,
Lisa Gordon
Assistant Pastor
Jesus City Church