The New Life in Christ: Those people who are ruled by their sinful selves cannot please God. If you use your lives to do the wrong things your sinful selves want, you will die spiritually. Romans 8:8 & 8:13.

The law was without power, because the law was made weak by our sinful selves.

But God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son to earth with the same human life that others use for sin. By sending his Son be an offering to pay for sin, God used a human life to destroy sin. He did this so that we could be the kind of people the law correctly wants us to be. Now we do not live following our sinful selves, but we live following the Spirit. Those who live following their sinful selves think only about things that sinful selves want. But those who live following the Spirit are thinking about the things the Spirit wants them to do. Romans 8:3-5.

But you are not ruled by your sinful selves. You are ruled by the Spirit, if that Spirit of God really lives in you. But the person who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Christ. Romans 8:9.

So, we must not be ruled by our sinful selves or live the way our sinful selves want. Romans 8:12.

Amen