With my sinful flesh was removed, put off in Christ, then why do I still sin?

So question we get often, rightly so, it's a question that should be on our minds as

we process the glorious truths of Colossians 2, verses 11 to 12.

Today the question comes in from two different listeners, Max and Tulsa, Oklahoma writes

in, Hello Pastor John, my question is this, does the born again Christian still have a

sin nature?

I read Romans 7 and Galatians 5 and it seems to say yes, we do, but when I read Paul in

Colossians 2, verses 11 to 12, he says our body of the flesh has been put off, cut off,

and done away with completely.

Or so it reads to me, Biblically speaking, do you genuine Christians have a sin nature

or not?

Thank you.

And the same text raised the same question for a listener named Carlos, who lives in the

nation of Columbia, Pastor John, according to Colossians 2, 11, a Christian sin nature

has been cut away.

So why am I still tempted to sin?

Why do I still battle with temptation if such a decisive work has been done in me in Christ?

This question is so important because we can't pursue the kind of life God calls us to live

if we don't know what has happened to us in becoming Christians.

There's a great deal of emphasis today, it seems to me, on what has happened for us

in the cross, namely that our sins are forgiven and that we are accepted and that we are

loved and that we have eternal life, but there doesn't seem to me to be as much emphasis

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