“Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Romans 8:37)

When God first saved you, when you stumbled, it was easy for you to run to Him for forgiveness. But gradually, you started to compromise with what you knew was displeasing to Him, so you started to avoid Him for little sins, and these sins wore on your conscience, so you went back to your Old Man for advice, and he told you to return to dead works to appease your conscience (Hebrews 6:1).

Your love relationship with Christ will be restored only if you go back to “faith working through love” (Galatians 5:6). The Apostle Paul warned saints to not reject the love of Christ: “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?” (Galatians 3:1-3). Take your sins to Christ's cross, for the Old Man must be continually crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20).

“As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith” (Colossians 2:6-7). How did you get your salvation in the first place? You came to Him as a desperate sinner, trusting only He could save you. Now you can do that with your anger, covetousness, or any addiction. Your remaining sin is dealt with the same way your old sins where dealt with when you first came to Christ. Go to the cross with your sin, and say, "Lord, I trust You to take this sin from me”. All your prayers and tears are worth nothing apart from Him.

You’re just as helpless against sin today as you were when you first came to Him. It’s only by His grace you were saved, and only by His grace you maintain your salvation. If you return to dead works to overcome sin, it means you’ve forgotten your first love, and have become a religious hypocrite.