Lesson 2820

(Lesson 2820)(09-13-19) Romans 7:15-25
    “For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”

    Today’s quote demonstrates precisely how we, mankind in the flesh, cannot rise above the sin that is inherent in us through the fall of Adam; However, as spiritual beings, we, the saved, having had that inherent sin washed away by the blood of Jesus Christ (NOT by water), shall remain sinless in the spirit (inner man/woman), having had our eternal souls “sealed” by the Holy Spirit “unto the day of redemption”. (1 John 3:9) “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him; and he CANNOT sin because he is born of God."~