Hi dcontroversal,
I am glad that you agree. I also agree with you, that we cannot live in a manner contrary to the truth because we are eternally sealed and saved. However, it is because we are eternally sealed and saved that we WILL NOT. We will instead reckon ourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
We are to walk in newness of life, by reckoning on the efficacy of God's promises in Christ to transform us into His likeness. (Gal 5:18-23)
'But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife,
seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like:
of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past,
that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.'
In Christ Jesus
Chris