Do you have to work for or attain being freed from old Adam?
No, being freed from old Adam is not something you work for or attain. It is entirely the power of God exercised in His saving salvation. Those who have let old Adam be crucified are dead to its desires, and this comes by God's power, not human effort or attainment.
Les explains that those who have let old Adam be crucified are now dead to the desires of that old Adam. This is not something you work for or try to attain; it is all part of the power of God when it is exercised in His saving salvation. He connects this to being dead with Christ by identification with the crucifixion, so that we believe we shall also live with Him. The resurrection is fundamental to our faith, and Christ died once to rid us of old Adam, once for all, satisfying for all eternity.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
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What does it mean that a believer is dead to the desires of old Adam?
Those who have let old Adam be crucified are now dead to the desires of that old Adam.