Rom
7:21-25 (ESV) So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies
close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I
see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making
me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I
am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through
Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but
with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
NOTE: So, Paul's
struggle here is clearly a struggle as a believer, and not before he came to
Christ or just theoretical. He says in vs 22 that he delights in the law of God
in his inner being. He also says that he has been delivered by Jesus, yet also
he says that in his flesh he serves the law of sin. There is a war that we
struggle with all the years of our life on earth. It does not excuse our
actions. It does not obviate the need to struggle and war against the flesh (as
it wars against the mind). It is a real thing that we all deal with but in
different ways. The worst failure is to think you have no struggle, because I
would argue then that sin has won (in pride for sure, but in other areas as
well). Father be merciful to us. We are weak creatures.
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