1. We are unable to solve our love for sin.

No man can say he has never sinned or didn’t enjoy doing wrong when he should have done right. No human being is able to solve their love for sin.

However, before our fall, we were originally endowed with noble powers and a well-balanced mind. We were perfect in our being and in harmony with God. Our thoughts were pure, our aims holy. But through disobedience, our powers were perverted, and selfishness replaced love. Our nature became so weakened through transgression that it was impossible for us, in our own strength, to resist the power of evil. Here in the garden, Jesus, our Savior, was promised.

And I will put enmity
Between you (Satan) and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed (Jesus);
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.

Genesis 3:15

Thus, our love for sin (by extension, the works of Satan) was intercepted with enmity placed in us by God and fulfilled by the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross as he warred against sin in our flesh by being human for our victory.

2. Without Jesus, we are unable to feel sorrow for sin

How many times have you wished someone would apologize to you, but they resist with all their might or gaslight you into believing the wrong lies within your actions, triggering their reaction? I urge you to have mercy on them, for by our fallen nature, it’s more natural to blame than to repent. Without Jesus, we are unable to feel sorrow for sin.

But God calls us to begin restoration with repentance. Repentance includes sorrow for sin and a turning away from it. We shall not renounce sin unless we see its sinfulness; until we turn away from it in heart, there will be no real change in our lives. Repentance is the prime work of the Savior Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. By commission, the Holy Spirit “convicts the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment” (JOHN 16:8)

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:9

3. We are unable to fight sin on our own

Warfare against oneself is the greatest battle that has ever been fought. We are unable to fight sin on our own. The yielding of self, surrendering all to the will of God, requires a struggle, but the soul must submit to God before we can be renewed in holiness.

However, when Christ dwells in the heart, the soul will be so filled with His love, with the joy of communion with Him, that it will cleave to Him; and, in the contemplation of Him, self will be forgotten. Love for Christ will be the spring of action. We will not ask for the lowest standard, but aim at perfect conformity to the will of our Redeemer.

“I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me there is no savior.”

Isaiah‬ ‭43‬:‭11

4. Jesus, humanity’s only Savior, gives strength to our willpower.

Our human willpower, combined with Jesus’s strength, can become omnipotent. An entire change may be made in our life through the proper exercise of the will.

Paul writes, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13). We will have strength from above to hold us steadfast. Through constant surrender to God, we will be enabled to live the new life, even the life of faith.

Who can understand the bondage of pornography? Who can negotiate themselves out of junk food without a struggle? How many broken-hearted experiences like divorce or financial loss lead a man to drugs, alcohol, or marijuana?

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted; to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

Luke 4:18

The death that we who sin would receive he took on, and that’s the reason we needed a savior. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23). Without Him, we die at the meager age of 99, some 50, and some stillborn. Tragedy turned to triumph on the cross of Calvary for the simple reason that;

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

John 3:16