Paul wrote: If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things passed away. New things have come.
"He is a new creation" is present tense. A person yields his heart to follow Jesus, and the process of redemption, reconciliation, and re-creation are done at that moment.
God has worked, and completed, the process of heart re-generation. He has infused new spiritual-DNA (sDNA) into your heart. Yes, sin is present. Yes, he has begun a process of complete renewal. But, yes, a new life, and a new saint, has been created.
Saints are normally considered to be people who have completed astounding works of love, and faith. That's not how the Bible defines saint. Paul writes his letters to the "saints" in a particular church. A saint is anyone, who follows Jesus. He is new. The Holy Spirit fills his heart.
God wants us to understand this change, so that we live that perspective of ourselves. If the new sDNA comes later, we will not make the every day decisions to live in faith, and love, until later. It is important that the perspective of ourselves, our lives, and our abilities, change, so we change.
So, God makes our hearts new now, so we will live new now.
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