QT 11 Sep 17, Rom 7:7-8, We are war, within our souls

Wk	Date	Passage	Key Verses(s) [Optional]	Basic Thing(s) Taught	Personal Insight(s) & Application(s)	Prayer Response
3		Romans 7:7-25	Romans 7:7–8 (ESV) — 7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.	Why is it when we know something is wrong, we want to do it? Some might argue that is not true. The bible says differently. We secretly desire things that are morally wrong. If a sign tells us we can't go somewhere, we wonder why and want to go where we are told we can't. We might argue that the example is only curiosity, but is it?	What we can't argue or disagree with, is that we do not want to obey God's laws. Some part of us does, but another part wants to do what it wants to do without any restrictions. That is the old nature (in the believer), and it is in rebellion to God. Even though we have a new nature, the indwelling Holy Spirit, that does not solve our problem. In fact, now a war is ongoing between right and wrong.	Father, forgive me for giving in to the old nature. In my spirit, I don't want to break your holy law. I want to be obedient. I know what is right and wrong. But I am fool who allows himself to be tricked by the desires of his old nature. Father protect me from the evil one. Continue to work in my life to change me to be more like your Son.