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Now there is no doubt
There will be some knocking down
And dragging out
You built me up
And I'm forever changed
When someone becomes a Christian, they become a new creation. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." There dreams change, and desires change due to their new outlook on life. In fact the Bible even says in Galatians 2:20 "My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." Paul is saying that his old sinful life is now dead, and now the life he is living is now found in Jesus. And due to Jesus now showing us how to live for Him, there will be knocking down, and dragging out due to our old sinful desires do not control us. Romans 6:6 says "We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin." As the verse says we are no longer slaves to sin, but yet sin is still going to be something that effects us till the day we die. However the longer we are with Jesus, and follow Him more we get farther, and farther away from sin. This is called progressive sanctification. Sometimes Jesus will tell us that we need to stop doing something that we really like to do, or forgive someone that we absolutely hate. There was someone that I did hate, and one day God told me that I needed to let it go. It was hard for me due to what this person had did, but I did forgive Him. Now I need to pray for him. I used to be a porn addict, but God told me that I needed to stop, due to it being sinful, there are several places in the Bible that show sex outside of marriage is sinful. 1 Corinthians 7:2 "But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband." There is pain in this change, but it is worth it in the long run. Romans 8:18 says "Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later."