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JLB
Not at all.
We are saved, regenerated, born again, through faith in Jesus Christ.
That is without question.
Understanding that once we are born again, and have a new divine nature, empowered by the Holy Spirit, we have the authority and power, and dominion over the sin that dwells in our flesh and the devil.
We now have the abilility to do what we could not do without, the power of the Spirit, working through our new nature.
We who have the Spirit are now able to live according to the Spirit.
However, we can also live according to the flesh as well.
Understand this principle that John teaches us -
Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 1 John 3:7
- He who practices righteousness is righteous
There is therefore now nocondemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walkaccording to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:1
Here are the two choices for those who are in Christ Jesus to live:
according to the flesh
according to the Spirit.
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
Paul is exhorting brethren, those who are in Christ Jesus, not to live according to the flesh.
Here’s why -
For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Romans 8:13
Which is why a brother in Christ, someone who is in Christ Jesus, can indeed become lost.
Paul explains what the works of the flesh are to us, so you want beconfused.
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you intime past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:19-21
those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Paul writing to the Church in Galatia, teaches these brothers in Christ Jesus the remedy for practicing the works ofthe flesh.
I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.Galatians 5:16
Again
8 For he who sows to his flesh will ofthe flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. Galatians 6:8
JLB