GSW: She was never a prostitute. Life made her one. She was not one in her nature and character. There are thieves like that. They steal but they change not because of sermon or whatever. They get a job and they stop. Some will steal even if you give them billions. Sometimes life make us become what we are not. But when we are free, we then stop being that thing. That was why apostle paul said “Let him that steal, steal no more” The person was a born again, a member of the church and he was still a thief. They reported it to the Apostle. He realised the guy didn’t know who he has become in Christ. If you know who you have become, you won’t still be doing that. Onesimus was a slave, Apostle Paul said he was not a slave. Even though he had a owner called Philemon. Slavery was nothing to a born again Christian if he understood who he had become in Christ. To have a better character, a christian must invent a better persona, a stronger identity that is far above his previous mindset which causes him to steal or prostirute. This is not changing character. This is what it means to become a new man. Many believers are not yet new men or women. They are saved but they have not invented that character and identity that fits who they are in Christ. So they are new spiritually but they have not learnt how to behave in a way that fits into their newness. We don’t change character. We kill the old man. His character must die with him. Then we take up a new man. The new character is formed in Him. That is what it means to be born again. We don’t see that nowadays. Jacob is now Israel but he still behaved like Jacob. Peter is now Cephas but he still behaved like Peter. Saul is now Paul and he now behaved like Paul.