We are Dead to Sin

Jesus didn't merely die on the cross for what you had done in committing sins. He also died for what you were and had become as a sinner. He didn't just die to take away your sins. He died to take away the sinner and replace him or her with a saint. And if you have been born again you are not the sinner you once were. You instead are a holy one on the way to a glorious future. Because this is so, for the true believer, your answer to sin and its temptations is not in trying harder, or in developing a different frame of mind or attitude towards sin. At the foundation is it embracing what you have become through Jesus Christ. The answer to sinning for the Christian is found in the regenerating work of Jesus Christ where the Christian has become a whole new person in Christ.