You cannot fight sin. It's true. A man can't defeat, beat, or overcome his own sin. God told Cain when he brought the sacrifice that wasn't as acceptable as his brother Abel, "sin is crouching at your door, but you must master it." We know from the scriptures that he could not master it; it mastered him and he killed his brother Abel. God also commented on humanity as he was speaking to Noah about the rainbow, saying they were only capable of evil from their childhood. We cannot therefore, defeat sin by will-power, intestinal fortitude, self-abasement, or posting of law. What then is the hope?
Paul told the Romans, "What the law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did sending His own...comdemning sin in His flesh." Jesus defeated sin tor us. The victory is not by something we do to try and defeat something we can't; it is all in trusting the provision of Christ. The manifestation of the victory is realized when we believe. That is it all.
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