But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to him at all.) And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God. The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.
Romans 8:9-11
Yes, even with Christ in us, the Christian body is still dead because of sin. The penalty for sin is death. Yet, we can have confidence in eternal life because we have been made right with God through Jesus Christ. This is past tense for all Christians. We have been sanctified, made holy, once and for all time through Christ. The progressive spiritual growth of the Christian is not about us; it is all about others.
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