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The above has to be the best Biblical explanation I've seen in years. God Bless!It is evidence of salvation that you feel your own sinfulness with more intensity than before. Before you accepted Christ you didn't care and did not sense your own sinfulness at all. Then the Holy Spirit showed you that you needed Jesus to be your Saviour, and so you accepted Him. Then, you become very aware of your own sinfulness. This is because Jesus wants you to have more faith in Him than in yourself. Paul the apostle said, "In me dwells no good thing." He realised that his own righteousness was detestable to God and this drove him deeper into Christ so that his full faith and trust was in Christ and not in himself. It was then that he realised that there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ.
The sense of your own sinfulness is there to drive you into the arms of Christ, to come boldly to God's throne of grace to find mercy and grace to help in your time of need. It is there to humble you under the mighty hand of God. The guilt, shame and punishment of sin has been removed from you, so you don't have to be afraid of coming close to Christ and sharing your sins openly with Him. He says in 1 John 1:9 that when we talk openly about our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleans us from all unrighteousness.
You have the sentence of death in yourself so that you don't trust in yourself but in God who raises the dead. The reason why you feel your sinfulness is that you have a new heart and your spirit is alive to God, and so the flesh wars against the spirit. This is why there is a conflict in you over your sinfulness.
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