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What people forget is that Christianity is about dying to oneself and living for God, picking up your cross daily and walking with Jesus. It doesn't matter whether you were a promiscuous heterosexual, or a homosexual, or what your sin was, or how much a part of you that you think it is. It doesn't matter because if you are a Christian you have been crucified with Christ, so the you with all of your evilness and sinful desires are dead. You have also been risen up as a new and forgiven person with Christ Jesus with power over sin.

The first thing you must do is become convinced of the truth of the the fact that God's will truly is best for you and everyone that you may influence, and also that He is LORD, and you must therefore make a commitment to follow Him. Then you master the ability to run your life according to the will of God and not the dictates of your body, soul, or the voices of others. You must begin to live your life by what you know is right, by using the volition of your will power, which God strengthens the more you give it over to Him. It is through purposefully, with all of your strength, mind and heart, willing yourself to choose to do what is right, and allowing the Holy Spirit to live through you, that you will live your life free from the power of sin. You will either be led by your flesh, following it's life draining and destructive demands, or you will learn to be led by The Spirit, to the glory of God unto life. So you see it doesn't matter what your flesh wants or thinks, because it is DEAD with Christ. Since it is dead, and you are alive, you must stop foolishly listening to it and being it's slave, but rather live, by the power of The Holy Spirit, for The LORD Jesus Christ, who loves you and gave Himself for you.

Our culture has brainwashed us into believing that we are slaves to our bodies and our desires. We are not slaves to our fleshly desires, but we are to be slaves to Christ. When we trust The LORD and use our will power, which He has given us, to do His good will, The Holy Spirit will be there to give us the strength and ability to carry out the will of God. We have to stop believing in ourselves and who we think that we are, good or bad, as the guiding force of our lives. We must start believing in God, doing His will, and letting His Spirit live through us to accomplish His will. Then we will find out that it doesn't matter what our sins and evil leaning may have been, because they are dead and we live unto God.

Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Rom 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

Rom 6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

Rom 6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Rom 6:13 Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.

Rom 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.