Galatians 5:17- “For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, in order to keep you from doing whatever you want.”
“The fact is, that believers are in a state of conflict, but not in a state of condemnation, and that at the very time when the conflict is hottest the believer is still justified.” Our sin nature has not been eradicated. We are in a fierce battle which will not go away until we are presented complete in Christ at His coming.
But that man who feels a daily striving after deliverance from evil, who is panting, and pining, and longing, and agonizing to live holy even as God is holy, he is the justified man. The man to whom every sin is a misery, to whom even the thought of iniquity is intolerable, he is the man who may with confidence declare, ‘There is now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.’
Souls that sigh for holiness are not condemned to eternal death for their sighing proves that they are in Christ Jesus”. Every child of God knows this struggle. No one has arrived at sinless perfection if he is honest with himself.“Every child of God must know this conflict if he knows himself. It is an accurate picture of the inner life of the struggling believer.” It is an accurate description of the soul struggling after purity.
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Pastor Josh Laryea