9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.No, I am not taking that out of context. You need to read what Paul actually said, instead of defaulting what your preaches says Paul said. Paul showed in Rom.7 that our 'flesh' is subject to the 'law of sin'. But our spirit is spiritual and desires to follow God's law.
Rom 7:18-25
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 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.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
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Paul's final statement reveals that our spirit will always be at war with our flesh while alive in these flesh bodies.
It means even when we TRY... not to sin, we slip up unconsciously and commit sin, because of that war by that "law of sin" in our fleshy members, our flesh body. Our flesh is responsible for most of our desires and wants, and sin.
This is why... Apostle John in 1 John 1 showed us what to do when we find ourselves having slipped up in future sin. He told us to repent and ask Jesus forgiveness, and Jesus is Just to heal us. This is also what John was showing to do per the following 1 John 2:1 verse...
1 John 2:1
2 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
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Now why would Apostle John be telling the Church to not sin if all their sins they could ever commit were already forgiven by Christ on the cross? and even that Jesus stands as our Advocate to The Father if we do... sin, with John pointing to future sin.
Further, we are ONLY dead to the law IF... and that's a BIG IF... we WALK BY THE SPIRIT. That is what Apostle Paul taught in Galatians 5. That means... if the believer instead walks by their flesh instead, THEY PUT THEMSELVES BACK UNDER THE LAW. Thus the law is not dead, for it was made for the sinner, and ungodly. And to walk by The Holy Spirit means not doing anything that is against God's law, which also is what Apostle Paul taught there in Galatians 5.
Seeing as you claim to be in the flesh I can see why you don't understand that Romans 7:14-25 is about those under the law and are in the flesh. But the born again of the Spirit are no longer in the carnal flesh - the sin nature. We have been freed from sin. I speak for myself, as you have of yourself.