When God makes us into a new creation the old us is gone forever, you cannot return to the old again.
God gave us a great example in nature that is the butterfly. When the butterfly worm emerges from the cocoon it can never go back into the cocoon again, its nature is completely different. Before when it was a worm in the cocoon it could do nothing, it couldn't fly or become beautiful, it had to emerge changed before it could fly or be beautiful.
When God makes us into a new creation we don't think the same way anymore, our mind processes things with the mind of Christ. When our flesh fails us we hate it and desire to be cleansed of it by the Holy Spirit that dwells in us.
Remember it was God that changed us, we didn't change our own nature He did that. When people try to be good on their own without Christ they are not saved, they are attempting to do the impossible, that is to change their own nature. If our nature was not changed then merely changing the actions does not change our nature.
It is a work of God that no man can do.
Ephesians 2:10 "10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
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