1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

I said yesterday that we no longer have that sin nature, so how is it we still sin? Excellent question, I am glad you asked. It is not by our new nature that we sin. What it boils down to now is a mindset. Our flesh is still flesh, it does not stop being hungry just because we tell it not to be hungry.

This issue of salvation is fourfold and our awareness of salvation does not alter the conditions of salvation. At new birth we are no long enslaved in sin. We have been freed from the power of sin. In most aspects we have been freed from the pleasure of sin. More and more things that pleased us while we were enslaved to sin no long are attractive. The flesh however remembers what sin felt like and those memories do linger.

Self-control is a fruit of the spirit, but like all fruit it takes time for a fruit to grow and mature. We will battle against temptation while we await that fruit to ripen. Even after it does, sin is still present in our lives. Sin is in the world and while we are not of the world, we are still in the world. Sin remains until we are resurrected into our incorruptible eternal bodies. Until then our bodies will suffer corruption of the body and our minds. All flesh decays, even before our earthly death.

Romans 7:22-23 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Mindset, as I stated at first, is the battle ground and the enemy is ever on the attack. While he is a defeated foe, he cannot be removed at this time from the field of battle. He is an eternal creation.

John 10:10a The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: