Christ can help with overcoming addictions and habits

“For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing” (Rom 7:19)? However, “For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted” (Heb 2:18). He is “one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin” (Heb 4:15). Christ can help everyone overcome temptations, habitual sin and addiction; there is always a way to escape. (1 Cor 10:12–13). The apostle Paul revealed, “Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh” (Gal 5:16). Walking by the Spirit means living by faith that produces a life filled with the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (Gal 5:22–24). To begin walking in the Spirit, one must believe to become obedient to the Gospel (Rom 6:17; 2 Thess 1:7–9). The death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the Gospel that saves believers (1 Cor 15:1–4). Each confessing believer must die with Christ, repenting of their sins, be buried with Christ by baptism in His name and be raised with Christ into the newness of life (Rom 6:1–7, Col 2:11–13). This is when God raises the believer with Christ and saves them by His grace (Eph 2:4–6). Here are a few scriptures that a person can look at: “What fruit did you have then in the

things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death” (Rom 6:21). “But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He will not hear” (Isa 59:2). “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life” (Rom 6:1–4; cf. Heb 10:26; 1 John 3:4–9). “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (Gal 2:20).