Jamdoc
Watching and Praying Always
- Oct 22, 2019
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Yes, we have free will, but when born again with a new nature, our will wants righteousness. You would really have to go against your own will to sin. Why do that when you don't have to?
Because it's 2 competing wills. There's the will of your spirit, and the will of your flesh. That's why Paul said it's a DAILY struggle to DENY the flesh. Because the flesh still has its own will. We have biological urges to do things that our spirit and the holy spirit knows are wrong. When you got saved, your brain didn't get its neurons rewired, so when you see a good looking girl in skimpy clothes, your body's first reaction is lust, it's biochemical, happens on impulse before you consciously suppress it.
Someone cuts you off in traffic, your body immediately releases chemicals that make you feel angry, when your spirit knows you shouldn't.
You can to a degree, "rewire your brain" but it is a process, it's not instant. Sanctification tries to get you to deny your flesh more and walk more in spirit and to even condition your flesh to behave in a more Christ like manner, so that when you see a beautiful woman in skimpy clothes, it doesn't appeal to you, even on a basic level, when someone cuts you off in traffic, you don't even have impulsive stress and anger.
But that's not something that is easy, natural, or instant for virtually all people. Ultimately I don't think anyone truly becomes conformed to the image of Christ in this flesh.
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