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Once you are washed with His blood of ALL YOUR SINS, we are clean “spiritually” forever. Sin dwells in the members of our flesh, not spirit. Actually physically we will die, but spiritually you will not. Spiritual death was defeated on the Cross. So we don't keep putting Him up there again on a daily basis. Our Temple has been cleansed, otherwise the Holy Spirit would not dwell in it. Remember in the Old Testament, a priest who had sin could not enter into the Most Holy Place, he would die. God does not dwell in the presence of sin, so your Temple is clean – it is in your flesh where sin dwells.
However, the words of Paul do not agree with you that the spirit is always clean while the flesh is sinful; For Paul says,
"Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." (2 Corinthians 7:1).
Paul says we have to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the spirit, too (and not just the flesh).
Paul also says,
"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Thessalonians 5:23).
Why does Paul need to pray so that the spirit may be preserved blameless if it is as you say?
Jesus says,
19 "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
20 These are the things which defile a man..."
(Matthew 15:19-20).
Christ can dwell in our hearts by faith (Ephesians 3:17).
So if our heart proceeds forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, etc., then how can Christ dwell there? The short answer is that He cannot dwell there. But we need to have the Son in order to have life, though. For he that has the Son has life, and he that does not have the Son does not have life (1 John 5:12).
After King David's sin was exposed, he said to GOD,
"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." (Psalms 51:10).
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