Romans 7 - 8
The sixteenth-century French theologian, John Calvin, once said, "you're not a sinner because you sin, you sin because you're a sinner." Before Jesus, the only thing that people had to let them know if they had sinned was the law. After Jesus died and rose again he sent us His Holy Spirit. Now we as believers do not live by the law, but we have the holy spirit dwelling inside of us.
Paul says in Romans 8:9-11, "You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you."
You see, we are not bound by the power of sin which leads to death, but we can live by the power of the Holy Spirit which has life.
So the best way to battle sin as a Christian is to just listen to the Holy spirit when He speaks to you. He will always tell you when you're about to do something sinful and he will give you an opportunity to flee from it. All that you have to do is listen.
By David Foster
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