Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. (2nd Cor 5:16-17)
You cannot change the essential you by what you do. You can only change you by dying and being born-again, new. We change by emptying ourselves and allowing Jesus to fill us fully and grow us into His image.
We cannot change except by way of the Holy Spirit's intervention and with the express approval of God. Any attempt to do so outside of the Holy Spirit and without God's consent is doomed to failure and is, ultimately, a sign of pride and arrogance.
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