Paul clearly understood the struggle between flesh and Spirit. In Romans 7 he wrote of his struggle. Verse 19 says, “For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.”

The truth is, at salvation, we died with Christ. Romans 6 is a great chapter to help us understand how to live for Jesus. First we have to understand that we died with Christ.

Verse 4 says, “Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”

Verse 11 says, “Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Dead things have absolutely no ability to respond to any stimulus.

Verse 13 says, “And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourself to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.”