Honestly, the Puritan understanding is so much more encouraging. And certainly seems to fit the Apostle Paul's calls to "struggle" or "fight" in the Christian life.
There’s no condemnation to those in Christ that are walking in the Spirit because they don’t walk into sin which is where the flesh leads. A Christian doesn’t need to battle against sin their whole life after they become mature in Christ, any Christian continuing struggling is not mature and is most likely trying to live for God and also the world. As Jesus said you can’t serve two masters but that’s what’s happening to many Christians wanting to serve God but then doing different things in the world trying to live both ways, and then wonder why their struggling and falling into sin. That’s why you have to put it to death as Paul says because then it has no power over you and you become free from being in bondage to it 🙏
@@HearGodsWord Paul kept the faith in walking in Christ, he didn’t stay struggling with sin, when I say battle that’s what I’m talking about. Every Christian at the beginning will struggle in dealing with sin, but you shouldn’t stay struggling your whole life, that’s my point. For example when I first became born again I struggled against sins and kept falling into them over and over, then I started maturing in the word of God more and the less sins I had to struggle with and the more sins I became dead to in my life. Now those sins that I use to battle and struggle with has no effect on me anymore. That’s where every Christian is supposed to be getting at, maturing against sins they’ve been struggling with until they become dead to it. Galatians 5:24- And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
It’s almost as if Jesus’s sacrifice has no practical benefit for anyone until after they’re dead, which of course, no one can verify. But, selective attribution of good things to God and bad things to ourselves keep people forever desperate for the miracle cure.
