![images (12).jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmW75CoFJwMGaypFE6sLDKMujYp1EPVpzDwx27adFNoU9Q/images%20(12).jpeg) [source](https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/www.bellanaija.com/2012/06/understanding-women-beta-by-doug-e-douglas/amp/) A man named John Piper said once that "A man sins because he wants to". But is that really the case?. Let's look at what John said concerning this problem of sin. **Romans 7:18-20 (AMP) For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot perform it. For I fail to practice the good deeds I desire to do, but the evil deeds that I do not desire to do are what I am doing. Now if I do what I do not desire to do, it is no longer I doing it , but the sin which dwells within me** So this verse has exposed to us the authentic answer to the question. Even when we don't want to we find ourselves doing wrong, because we are born with a sinful nature and has lived with it for a long time and have become slave to Sin. Therefore Paul is right and Mr Piper is wrong..... Now what is the way out? ![download (21).jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmfHkvb1DEgm8PT2eoSzYQt5Mzvnb6qLmb4BaidguPiGrD/download%20(21).jpeg)[source](https://www.todayschristianwoman.com/articles/2015/september-2/find-your-way-out-of-dark-depression.html) Jesus said in the scriptures..... **John 8:31-36 (AMP) So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in Him, If you abide in My word , you are truly My disciples. And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free. They answered Him, We are Abraham's offspring (descendants) and have never been in bondage to anybody. What do You mean by saying, You will be set free? Jesus answered them, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Whoever commits and practices sin is the slave of sin. Now a slave does not remain in a household permanently (forever); the son does remain forever. So if the Son liberates you , then you are really and unquestionably free.** ** Romans 6:17-20 (AMP) But thank God, though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient with all your heart to the standard of teaching in which you were instructed and to which you were committed. And having been set free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in thought, purpose, and action). I am speaking in familiar human terms because of your natural limitations. For as you yielded your bodily members as servants to impurity and ever increasing lawlessness, so now yield your bodily members once for all as servants to righteousness (right being and doing) to sanctification. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.** **

The reality of becoming a slave to righteousness is solely a function of how much of God's word which is LIGHT is in you, and how much you fellowship with the spirit

** BE INTENTIONAL ABOUT LIVING OUT GODS WORD