The Believer’s Tug-o-War – Romans chapter 7 verses 14-25
21 So I find this law at work: although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
Romans 7:21-25
We all fail you live up to our own standards.
Is Paul speaking of himself? Probably he is, of another time in his life, his past.
Paul’s tug of war.
Jesus is the one who can cut the rope and end the tug-o-war. He sets us free from the law of sin and death.
God’s law is a diagnostic tool.
This is it’s right use. Not to leave us condemned, but to let us preach the gospel to our own hearts. Chapter 8 shows this out working of the law. No condemnation!
8 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Romans 8:1-4
