First: Repent of your sin and have faith towards God through accepting Jesus Christ as
personal Savior:
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new. (II Corinthians 5:17)God does not take sinful man and give him a self-improvement course. He creates a new
creature. The old things pass away. The works of the flesh are to be replaced by the fruit of the
Holy Spirit.
Second: Be filled with the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who will enable you to walk in the
ways of the Spirit instead of the sinful ways of the flesh:
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
(Galatians 5:17)Third: Realize you cannot be freed from the works of the flesh and walk in the Spirit through
your own effort.
The Apostle Paul described the struggle he had in his own effort to live a Godly life:
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I
hate, that do I.If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to
will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
(Romans 7:15-19)Paul experienced the difficulty of living a holy life but he continued to pursue this goal despite
his failures.
Ask God to put a desire to be holy in your heart. Whenever you fail and sin, confess it
immediately and ask the Holy Spirit to help you overcome it. This is how you learn to walk in
the Spirit and...
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,
who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.