Understanding the problem from God's point of view:
2 Cor. 5:21
-Jesus was our substitute and acted on our behalf
bearing our sin nature and our committed acts of sins. Remember
the effect of sin is guilt, condemnation, shame, bondage, insecurity,
inferiority-all of which Jesus bore on the cross, we don't have
to carry it anymore.
Hope:
2 Cor. 5:17
-We were resurrected with Jesus, as such, we are
new creatures, living in a new dimension, now we are to think
and live in an entirely new way according to God's specific directions
and plans.
Rom. 5:17 , 20-21 -We are gifted to reign in life. God's grace envelops us and empowers us to think and to do righteous acts, and these acts represent eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom. 8:29-39 -We did not initiate our salvation. God is the One Who called us, and thus, He is for us, all good things from Him belong to us. God cannot condemn us because He sent His very own Son to bear the penalty. It is God's love that initiated all of our salvation, if this is so, who can separate us from this Love?
Verses 37-39-We are more than conquerors by dwelling on God's love, this meditation in time persuades my inner being, and my mind that it is so.
Change:
Eph. 2:1-3
-Man was dead(powerless and without the ability
to change)in sin but Jesus broke sin's dominion by being made
sin for us. Jesus died with us in Him.
Rom. 4:25 , Jesus rose again to make us righteous; Eph. 3:6 , we rose up together and sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. This is to be our attitude 24 hours a day regardless of what my feelings are telling me.
Gal. 6:14 / Gal. 2:20 -The cross is my victory in righteousness, by the cross we live dead to the world and alive in Christ. Christ lives in me and I now live by faith of Jesus living in me enabling me to think and to do righteousness.
Rom. 5:17
, 6:11
-Sin nature has been put away, now I practice the
acts of right thinking and right doing because I have abundance
of God's energy and power, the enablement to exercise the gift
of righteousness.