"Sin cannot be subdued in any other way"

When we are baptized into Christ's spiritual body, we are baptized into His death, thus become partakers of the suffering of Christ. This positional sanctification removes the penalty of sin. As we grow in our "Christ- likeness" as we spiritually mature following being born anew, the power of sin is proportionately overcome during our "progressive sanctification." Only when we experience our redemption is glorified bodies at Christ's second coming will we be removed from the presence of sin in our mortal bodies of flesh.

As we grow in Christ-likeness, and serve Christ as Ambassadors, we build upon the foundation of Christ, and if we build well we will receive rewards for our service. Our rebirth provided from God our adequacy to effectively serve Christ and receive our rewards.

 

AMEN....
Only through the Working Power of the Holy Spirit...as God desires, and in His Time.....anything else is all the works of the Flesh.

A few quotes from JC Philpot: " The Blessedness of Trusting in the Lord"

"The confidence of most stands wholly upon this ground. They trust in man, in
themselves, or some other, and they make flesh their working
arm, to work out their own plans of salvation, build up their own
goodness, establish their own righteousness, and bring forth
something in and by the creature with which they hope to pass
eternity with God." "But this is the point that God especially sets
his hand upon as marking them, that in trusting in man and
making flesh their arm, their heart departeth from the Lord; it
being impossible in God's view for a man to be neutral in these
matters; it being impossible in the judgment of God for a man to
trust in man, and make flesh his arm in one direction; and to
trust in God and make the power of God his arm in another
direction. God knows no such neutrality; he winks at no such half
measures; he does not allow a man to stand with one leg upon
self and one leg upon God; one foot on free will and one foot on
free grace; to work with his own right arm his own righteousness,
and take with his left gospel blessings. Such neutrality in the
sight of God is as bad as it would be in the case of a hot war for a
man, a subject of Queen Victoria, to stand neutral—be sometimes
in favour of the Queen, and sometimes in favour of the invader.
Such a man would deserve to be shot in the face of both armies."


"Thus preparatory to the blessing comes the curse; before the gospel comes the law;
before the ceasing to trust man, and ceasing to make flesh his
arm, comes the breaking of the arm and the destroying of the
confidence in the flesh. Then taking him at that period, he is
brought to this point, that he cannot put trust in himself nor in
anybody else. Whenever he has put his trust in himself or
anybody else, he has met with nothing but disappointment;
whenever he has accepted anything from the creature, nothing
has followed but vexation, destroyed hopes, and blighted expectations."

"The more we look to the creature, the worse we
find it; the more we look to self, the worse we find it; the more
we trust in man or in one's own self, the greater is the
disappointment."


The Lord bless you.