EVERY BORN AGAIN PERSON STRUGGLES AGAINST AND RESISTS SIN FROM THE DAY THEY ARE BORN AGAIN AND WILL CONTINUE TO STRIVE AGAINST SIN TILL WE DIE BECAUSE WE LIVE IN THE FLESH..

Hebrews 12:4 ¶ Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin...{sin here is a noun not a verb}...

The mistake a lot of us that are Pastors {Religious ones who want to take credit for their walk with God instead of depending on the grace of Jesus} is to think that by preaching against particular sins that the people will change. No preaching against sin will stop people from sinning!!!

Most time when we preach against particular sins it is to satisfy our conscience that we have preached against sins and so that we will be approved in the eyes of the Pharisees and Sadducees in the church world, so that they will not call us "PROSPERITY" preachers

Far from it..The only thing that happens when we preach against sin is "behaviour modification" for a while, they leave the service feeling sorry for their lifestyle but in a few days or weeks they are back in that particular sin..

The only preaching and teaching according to the epistles that will empower people to live above particular sins and not fall into the temptation when it comes is the preaching of "who they are in Christ"..helping them to see themselves as God sees them!

When they have a new image of who they are, when they understand that salvation is not just the forgiveness of their sins but the receiving of a new nature created after Christ, that the new creation  is not a fornicator an adulterer, a thief, a liar..when their minds are renewed to these truths..grace is imparted to their spirits to live above sin...{2Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new}


GRACE  TO OVERCOME SIN IS MULTIPLIED THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT GOD IN JESUS HAS ACCOMPLISHED IN THEM!

2Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,


TRANSFORMATION COMES BY THE RENEWING OF THE MIND..
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

THAT IS THE GOSPEL OF GRACE!

IT IS NOT THE PREACHING AGAINST SIN THAT CHANGES THE INDIVIDUAL IT IS THE PREACHING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS..Teach them about their righteousness, about what has been done in them, about the new creation and its realities in practicality and you will see them grow to be who they are in Christ..

FRIENDS WE ARE ON A JOURNEY TO PERFECTION AND NOT UNTIL WE SEE HIM SHALL WE WILL BE LIKE HIM IN PERFECTION....BUT NOW WE ARE SONS OF GOD
1John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

SHALOM