(2 Cor 5:17) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” It is of utmost importance you take an honest assessment of your spiritual state, not being dishonest with self, nor seeking excuse. Can you say that from the moment of praying the prayer to be saved your life was changed? You from that point sought to live for Christ? If not, you may not have been truly saved at all: (2Co_13:5) “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”