Be merciful to us and intercede for us . . . We seek to walk humbly and in a holy way with Christ Jesus in this covenant of grace. . . . For even as the death of our Lord would not have profited us, had he not risen from the power of earth. . . . Once they discovered a new life in Christ, the Anabaptists moved . . . He did not believe that God forces us to obey him, but that he permits sin so that we need to use our freedom of choice.
Sin is a kind of sickness.
To recover from it, we must surrender ourselves totally to God. Only then can our spirits dominate our unwilling flesh. Only then can we keep the law of love in obedience to God and live a new life.