What part of you is in Christ? The inner man? Is your body in Christ? Old things about your inner man have passed away, and all things about your inner man are become new. Sadly, the inner man still dwells within a sinful body of flesh. Our flesh will be changed one day, but until then, it becomes a daily battle.
I see people are trying to blame the body for continuing to sin, but again sin originates in the heart because of a lustful spirit. Notice Paul says all sin is done without the body---->>>>
1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee fornication.
Every sin that a man
doeth is
without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Notice what James says....
James 1:12-15
[SUP]12 [/SUP]Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
[SUP]14 [/SUP]But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of
his own lust, and enticed.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]Then when
lust hath conceived,
it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death."
Ok, now how and where is lust conceived? Lust is caused by the spirit working in the first nature of man=flesh and is first conceived in the heart.
James 4:5
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The
spirit that dwelleth
in us
lusteth to envy?
Notice what Jesus says about lust in the heart....
Matthew 5:28
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman
to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already
in his heart.
It is by the Holy Spirit we are able to put to death the deeds and lusts of the flesh.
Romans 6:12
Let not
sin therefore reign
in your mortal body, that ye should obey
it in the
lusts thereof.
Romans 13:14
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for
the flesh, to fulfil the
lusts thereof.
Galatians 5:16-21
[SUP]16 [/SUP]This I say then,
Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil
the lust of the
flesh.
[SUP]17 [/SUP]For the flesh
lusteth against
the Spirit, and
the Spirit against the
flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
[SUP]18 [/SUP]But if ye be
led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
[SUP]19 [/SUP]Now
the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
[SUP]20 [/SUP]Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
[SUP]21 [/SUP]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.
Galatians 5:24
And they that
are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and
lusts.