[KeptByTheWord]

There are so many important events in scripture that occur in patterns of 3. I always find that interesting.

Thank you for bringing out the death to self parable picture.

How important it is to realize that salvation comes to bring us victory over our enslavement to self.

It is a hard-fought battle that we will always fight (our flesh will never give up until the day we draw our last breath), but we can live victorious through the spirit of Christ Jesus living in us. We don't have to live under the burden of it, but we can and must be overcomers... but we cannot fool ourselves into thinking the battle is in the past. It is present, ongoing, and will never end while we draw breath into our bodies. But we can live as overcomers, and that is the exciting part about what Jesus did at Calvary for us!