Take Heed, friends...
" In whomsoever the old man is not crucified with Christ, let him think what he will of himself, he is a servant of sin. If he have not received virtue from the death of Christ, if he be not wrought unto a conformity to Him therein, whatever else he may do or attain, however he may in any thing , in many things, change his course and reform his life, he serves sin, and not God ... If we expect to be freed from the service of sin by its own giving over to press its dominion upon us [*in other words, if we think for a moment that sin is going to surrender its reign in our members] , or by any composition with it, or any other way but by being always killing or destroying of it, we do but deceive our own souls. -preacher John Owen