Rom 6:9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.I find it quite interesting that he discusses sin with believers--not as a past issue, but as a present challenge to overcome and deal with.
Rom 6:10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
Rom 6:11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Rom 6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
Rom 6:13 Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness.
Rom 6:14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
Rom 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Rom 6:16 Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Rom 6:17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.
Rom 6:18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
Don't you find that interesting as well?
Thank you for those! Slaves to righteousness...exactly my point here. Once we are born again...we are in His army and it is a very precious thing. He is not going to let us go, just as once the rebellion in heaven took place and a third of the angels were cast out with Lucifer...those left had made their choice for God. That was finished. So with us upon salvation.