Too few Christians today understand that following Jesus is about dying to self, being crucified to this world.

Indeed, our flesh fights this all the time but we must let Jesus keep the old man of sin in the grave day by day.

If we let go of God, our old man will rise again and our final state will be worse than when we began.

“For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.” - 2 Peter 2:20-21