Romans 7:4-6

So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.  For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.  But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

Luke 9:24-25 says, “Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.” It is not of our own power that we are able to “deny ourselves”, it is by the power of God. Our great seal in Christ, the Holy Spirit, has made residence with us by grace through faith in Him. Because of God’s redemptive effort manifest in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus – we are free from sin and death. That is why He is everything, it all starts and ends with Jesus. Whatever battle you face today, it starts and ends with Jesus. In 2 Cor. 12:9 Paul says, “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’”