OUR FATHER WHOSE SON DELIVERED US FROM CONDEMNATION

The Apostle Paul, in the book of Romans chapter 7 verses 13 - 25 explains that in each of us is a duality whereby our mind serves the law God but our flesh serves the law of sin.

13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 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. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 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.

Amen.

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OUR FATHER WHO GAVE THE LAW THAT WE MIGHT KNOW OUR NEED FOR GRACE

In the book of Roman chapter 7 verses 7 -  12, the Apostle Paul asks of there is something corrupt with the law if sin was able to take advantage of it to produce the array of evils desires that the law maps out regarding our conduct.

Paulˋs answer is that the law is not corrupt but is instead a chart by which we are informed of our corrupt proclivities and reveals to us our true nature of rebellion against a standard that is set by God. The law, which is clearly a presciption to preserve life if it were possible to obey it, instead, prescribes death as we are deceived by sin and killed by it under the standard of the law. 

Sin stirrs up rebellion against the law within us and when we contravene the law, then sin condemns us ti death using the same the law for the ulitmate aim of sin is to compel  us to continually bear the fruit leading towards death.

Paul concludes that the law is holy and just and good because it provides us with benchmarks against which we can confirm our sinfulness and thus our need to be saved.

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. 9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. 12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

Amen

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