Paul says the same body can be a tool for righteousness, the same hands, the same eyes, the same tongue, the same feet, they were tools sin used freely, now they can be tools God uses. You have a body, that body has hands, those hands are going to reach for something today, the question is not whether you are strong enough, the question is who you are presenting those hands to, sin as an instrument of unrighteousness or God as an instrument of righteousness. The thing you look at, the thing you say, the place you go, the person you call, the thought you let stay, every one of those is a member being presented.
What Dead To Sin Does Not Mean
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Romans 6:16
16Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?
1 John 3:7
7Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous
Romans 8:11, the old self dying is not the end of the story, because the old self was not crucified so you could be left as an empty shell trying to be good, the old self was crucified so the new self could live. And the new self does not live by its own strength, it lives by the Spirit, this is what Paul means in Galatians 5:16, not grit your teeth and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh, not white knuckle your way through the day and hope you survive, walk by the Spirit. The Spirit is the power, the reckoning is the posture and the daily life is where the two meet, Romans 6:12-13, instruments, tools, the body is sin’s tool.
Romans 8:9, consider the name, the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit is the Spirit of the Father and of the Son, but there is something else hiding in that name. This is worth sitting with, because it is reflection, not a doctrine you will find spelled out in a dictionary, the Spirit of Christ is the Spirit of the one who was betrayed and abandoned and who cried out in the garden and who was raised from the dead. The Spirit who dwells in you is not a distant force, he is the Spirit of the one who knows what it is to be human, to be tired, to be misunderstood, to be left, and he dwells in you, not because you are impressive, because you are his.