Light” (Ephesians 5:8). “From now on we recognize no one according to the flesh … If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature” (2 Corinthians 5:16–17). Paul doesn’t identify believers by their flesh patterns. We are not alcoholics, addicts, codependents, pedophiles, or victims. We may struggle with some of those flesh patterns, but that is not who we are. The New Testament refers to the person you were before you received Christ as your old self (old man). At salvation, your old self, which was motivated