Rom 6:1-4
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
4 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.
(NKJ)
Paul gives us a clear picture of what takes place when we step into our new life with Christ Jesus. When we turn our lives to Christ we cross over from our lives in this world and step into God's kingdom. However, we cannot step into God's kingdom in our current natural man. The natural man is sin ridden and flesh driven. Our natural man has one master and one will. It's own alone. We cannot live in God's kingdom unless we have given our will over to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. There is no two rulers in God's kingdom. It doesn't work that way nor will it ever work that way. God's kingdom is not yours and Jesus's. You have no right or authority to rule with Jesus Christ in His kingdom. And it is the natural man that wants to rule all and will not give over its own will unless it benefits itself in some way. So how are we brought over into God's kingdom? Well Jesus said we must be born again (John 3). Jesus also said that
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