Man was created as a tri-part being with a body, soul, and human spirit. Then also man's soul is tri-part, consisting of the mind, emotion and will. Thereby, man is a thinking, feeling, and willing (choosing) being. By these faculties man possesses the capacity to make choices when he is confronted with divergent options.

This capacity to choose exists in man both before and also after one becomes regenerated or born-again as a Christian. As we've already seen, believers, as all men, have the Sin-spirit within their flesh members (Rom 7:17-23), pressing and prompting them from within. Yet we are the ones who make choices that affect outcomes and consequences. First, every man is free to choose to believe and thereby receive and rely upon God's love, grace and gift of "the Spirit of life in Jesus Christ." Yet, we may choose to go it alone, repelling the Lord's conviction and leading to choose rightly. Freedom of choice is primary to such a living relationship with the Lord. Love always must be received freely or it's not really love.

God desires that we come to "learn Christ" (Eph 4:20), to learn to stay in union with Him through-out our daily living. We will learn to walk in accord with Christ as the life, light, and love of God freely given to us. The light, life and love of the Lord are versus the inner darkness, deadness, loneliness, and nagging sense of incompletion that we experience when living in self-love, living apart from our union with the Lord. This proper dependent union relationship with Christ needs to be learned because self-love was of our original fallen "nature" (Eph 2:3). We have all lived to serve our self-interest all our lives before we came to know the Lord. Now, Lord willing, He is increasing as we are decreasing.

As we grow in relationship with Him, we will come to see that when we live independent of the Lord, in self-interest, even in something seemingly minor, something not seemingly evil on its face may actually be evil. If we choose to go a way other than that which we inwardly know is right we should sense an inner deadness or heaviness... we just know hat way id wrong.

James writes; "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. (James 4:17) The word "knoweth" here in James 4:17 is the Greek "eido," which may better be translated here as, "to know by the spontaneous intuitive sense." We have His written word but also we have the sense by which we may know the Lord's will. This is a sense that all believers possess by the indwelling "Spirit of life that is in Christ Jesus" (Rom 8:2a). It is by this inner "sense knowing" that we may either enjoy a sense of well-being and okayness, or we may have a sense of inner restraining, turmoil, heaviness, or a knot in our gut. This is of our personal intuitive inner knowing, and to such James refers when he writes "to him that knoweth." In other words, in some personal issue that applies to nobody else; you should know how you should respond to a situation or choice that you face. This is the normal function of Christ's "Spirit of life" within us as our new moral consciousness. This is for us individually, applying to us alone in this particular instance. Philippians 2:13 For it is GOD WHICH WORKETH IN YOU BOTH TO WILL AND TO DO OF HIS GOOD PLEASURE.

Paul wrote, "Sin, when it is finished bringeth forth death" (1Cor 15:56). We will, in our souls, sense the deadness of the separation from the Lord when we've chosen to turn away from Him, to sin by going against what we knew was right.

The Bible makes clear that we sometimes will fail so long as we live in these sinful bodies. 1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. Yet we will never be condemned by the Lord. Actually, choosing incorrectly and failing is how we learn to choose to walk in union with Him as Lord of our lives. We always live under the new grace paradigm of the unconditional love of the Lord wherein "There is therefore NOW NO CONDEMNATION to them which are in Christ Jesus." (Romans 8:1)

You will notice that I am repeatedly saying, as Paul did, we need to walk in accord with "the Spirit of Christ" who lives within us – that is not according to some set of external laws – not even the Ten Commandment or 613 Mosaic laws.

Romans 6:14 ...for Ye Are Not Under The Law, But Under Grace.

These external laws given to Israel have been superseded by a living inner law that Paul calls "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus (Rom 8:2a).

Thus we may observe others seeming foibles but we can't judge others because it is Christ's work to regulate each of us, being internally alive in each of us. The Lord always operates within us by the sense of His life, as He wills. We cannot presume and impose a religious code of ethics for judging anyone else in whom Christ dwells – He is their indwelling Lord and will deal with them personally.

The Lord is every believer's Lord, individually, when it comes to their personal walk and relationship with Him. Such a walk can only be by personal relationship, learning to listen to the inner voice of the Lord that we mostly know by the inward sense that is as automatic and intuitive as our physical senses. This kind of relationship governs every situation that we may encounter in our lives.