Would kindly disagree with you--
Gal 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
= "are Christ's".......... this means the person is "in Christ".
Its not by doing, its by BEING Christ's that the lusts are crucified.
So what is the "flesh" that is the affections and lusts?
= That is the "old man of sin".
So, when you are "in Christ", the old man of Sin, is "crucified with Christ'..
You dont do what is done already.
He's DEAD.
= "have crucified the flesh"...."the old man". "Have"..... not..."still trying".... as this is a finished situation, that is to have become who you are now as a "new creation".
This is the result of "being now made free from sin". because you "are Christ's".
So once again, this is the spiritual result of the Cross and of becoming a new Creation.
To become a new creation, you are no longer the old one, which means the old man, the lusts, the affections are gone.
But a struggling believer's fleshly mind, says...."no, that can't be true as im sitting here wanting to get high, get drunk, watch porn, and have sex with my neighbors wife".
See that?
That is THE MIND, that is not the real you......That is the OLD MAN that is CRUCIFIED, but not yet "reckoned dead".
This is a believer who is trying to FIGHT The Flesh, instead of seeing the old man as "crucified" and powerless.
Fighting the flesh, empowers it.
Trying to do right, or trying not to think about sin, causes it.....so that is how NOT to find deliverance.
Instead you have to come to believe that you are the "righteousness of God" and put on that mind.
That is the HELMET of Salvation.
So, you have to not fight the flesh....., but rather understand its "crucified".
That is a different MIND......the renewed mind.
This is why Paul says to "reckon" the old man dead, not to resist him.
Your mind, is unable to stop thinking about sin, unless you put on the understanding of being " NOW being made free from sin".
"Im the righteousness of God in Christ".
You don't resist sin, you believe beyond it as the right mind, the renewed mind.
You can't turn off the mind, you have to change the way you think... the way you understand the finished work of Jesus that has dealt with your sin.
You have to literally believe that you are the "righteousness of God in Christ"., no matter how you think or feel., as that is just THINKING.
Its meaningless, as the REALITY is what God has caused you to become.
THat's the TRUTH, .. that's the RIGHT MIND.
That's the Helmet of Salvation.