Sin is no longer alive in one who is born again!

Romans 6:-
What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase? 6:2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 6:3 Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life. 1
6:5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection. 2 6:6 We know that 3 our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, 4 so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 6:7 (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.) 5
6:8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 6:9 We know 6 that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die 7 again; death no longer has mastery over him. 6:10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God. 6:11 So you too consider yourselves 8 dead to sin, but 9 alive to God in Christ Jesus.
6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires, 6:13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments 10 to be used for unrighteousness, 11 but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments 12 to be used for righteousness. 6:14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

Being reliant on our own flesh to overcome our sins is something any Christian will tell you cannot overcome the grave. Why then do we continue to give ourselves daily report cards on our behavior, as if we are good Christians one day, and mediocre ones the next? How many of you when you were children, told yourselves, “Today I’m a good boy, but yesterday I was bad. Mom and dad didn’t love me then, but now they do! Gee, I wonder if they will tomorrow?....”
Unless you had some serious booty-beating parents, none of you, I’ll bet!

Our outlook towards our nature should be the same. “For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.” (6:10)—so too are our trespasses. We do not overcome our sins based on what we are able to do, so why are we so hard on ourselves when we have committed sins? It is as if we caught between living under the law and obeying the Spirit of life in Jesus Christ who has made us free from the law of sin and death. God ordered Adam and Eve that they may not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for they were eating from the tree of life. And yet we try and do both, as if the tree of life was not sustenance enough! Every time we try to summon some inner will to conquer our sins, we get nowhere. In James 4:7, it does not say “Resist the devil and he will flee from you”, but “Submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” By just living by doctrine we are only establishing religion, not a relationship. Anyone out there can have a religion. Only those born again in Jesus Christ have a relationship with the father!

“Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” I Corinthians 3:16

If we continue on trying to please God in the flesh, it will never happen, because “we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this age..” Ephesians 6:12. When we do this we are being deceived by the enemy, because by dwelling on our sins, we are taken away from Jesus, who has freed us from them to begin with! I say this not to preach, but as someone who has been in this cycle long enough, and cannot bear to see the church of Christ be held back by lies any longer. It is deeply impressed in my heart to see Cornerstone grow, but the more we dwell on “me”, the more we will fail. Jesus is our cornerstone, and the only foundation we need.