Yes, but you realize that if you put to death the deeds of the body by the Spirit, that signifies His work, not yours, right?
It is a cooperative effort because it is not God that puts to death the deeds of the body. Paul is telling the reader to do it.
Rom 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Col 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Col 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Col 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Col 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Col 3:6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
Col 3:7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
Col 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Col 3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Col 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
It is we whom have to mortify our members. God does not do it for us. God provides us with the means to do it but we have to do it.
This is why Jesus preached HEAR and DO. Jesus never taught that He would do it for you. Jesus said...
Mat 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
Mat 7:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Vigilant ... Are you a doer? Are you building your house on the rock?
Remember Noah has to build the ark himself, God did not build it for him. Was Noah saved by works salvation?
Noah was saved by GRACE THROUGH FAITH.
God provided the leading, the instruction. Noah had genuine faith and put the provision of God into use. Thus Noah built his house upon the rock.
Noah OBEYED God because Noah BELIEVED and TRUSTED God. Obedience, trust and belief go hand in hand. Faith without works is dead because there is no working dynamic present.
2Co 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
We are made the righteousness of God in Him if we are indeed workers together with God. In other words we have to HEAR and DO. If we hear only and refuse to do then the grace of God is received in vain.
2Co 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Joh 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
True righteousness is a result of abiding in the Spirit of life in Jesus Christ and such an abiding necessitates obedience or doing.
Jas 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Self deception is rooted in hearing only and a refusal to do.
Noah would have drowned had he not built the ark.
