gratefully dead?

It is not through gritting our teeth and determining by our will power that we overcome temptation, but in accepting the fact that we are dead iin Christ. The dead no longer lust, lose their tempers or act selfishly. Our victory is in our being “dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans:6:11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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            Dave Hunt, The Berean Call, March 1988