My feelings dictate to me in the struggle with my flesh that what God’s word says about my salvation is not true.  That is why we live by faith.  I am to receive and believe by faith what Jesus did for me on the cross.  I am separated from and have died to the sin principle.  Not that sin in my flesh ceases to exist, but that I have been saved from the power of sin dominating my life.  It is still there in the flesh, but I am not plugged into it.  I am plugged into a different source now, the Holy Spirit, and no longer into Satan energizing my flesh.  But I am stuck in this body and constantly battling with the flesh.

See, I do not feel like I have been delivered from the control and power of sin.  Yet as I look back over my life, there is a difference.  I commit acts of sin but there is a spiritual control over my life that is different than before.  And I know it is not me because I have tried to go a different direction.  The Bible teaches that He keeps me in Christ Jesus.