Leviticus 19:19; Galatians 5:13-24
How do we escape from enslavement to sin and get right with God legally?
Before we are born again, we are enslaved to serving ourselves rather than serving others. We live self pleasing lives in total rebellion towards God.
Now that we are born again, how do we deal practically, as physical creatures, with the practice of sin in our daily lives when our flesh is so weak. Even though our sins have been dealt with, past, present and future, that doesn’t give us free licence to sin and continue to indulge the flesh.
How do we put our new found freedom into practice without gratifying our sinful desires?
Are we relying on the Law to keep us in check or are we walking with and depending on the power of God’s indwelling Spirit to change us?
There is only one way to defeat the flesh and that is through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone, so that Gods Spirit will bear fruit in us.
2 Corinthians 3:17-18
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.