. Therefore, you are expected to live at a different, higher level.
And you can. You cannot excuse yourself by saying, "I'm only human." True,
that is why temptations come, but God has given us an ability to say no to
these and to say yes to the power of Christ. We will not feel powerful---we
are never expected to---but we have the power to say no; that is what the
new creation is all about.<P>

Thus, because our Lord is Master of the old creation (the old, material
universe all around us)---and also master