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By his own admission, Paul was not a ‘stained-glass’ saint.
Paul openly admits in the text in Romans 7 that he struggled with his sin-nature – just as everyone else on planet earth today struggles. Listen again to what causBy his own admission, Paul was not a ‘stained-glass’ saint. He never walked the streets of Europe, Asia, or Jerusalem with a halo glowing around his head. Not at all. Paul was a sinner like everyone else.
Paul openly admits in the text in Romans 7 that he struggled with his sin-nature – just as everyone else on planet earth today struggles. Listen again to what caused him such desperate grief: “For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate . . . For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in [my body], waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my [body]. Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
Have you ever felt that way – discouraged and frustrated so often by the things that go through your mind and out of your mouth?
You can read the rest of this message on my blog:
https://inhimonly.blogspot.com/2024/10/who-will-deliver-us.html
ed him such desperate grief: “For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate . . . For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in [my body], waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my [body]. Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
Have you ever felt that way – discouraged and frustrated so often by the things that go through your mind and out of your mouth?
You can read the rest of this message on my blog:
https://inhimonly.blogspot.com/2024/10/who-will-deliver-us.html
Paul openly admits in the text in Romans 7 that he struggled with his sin-nature – just as everyone else on planet earth today struggles. Listen again to what causBy his own admission, Paul was not a ‘stained-glass’ saint. He never walked the streets of Europe, Asia, or Jerusalem with a halo glowing around his head. Not at all. Paul was a sinner like everyone else.
Paul openly admits in the text in Romans 7 that he struggled with his sin-nature – just as everyone else on planet earth today struggles. Listen again to what caused him such desperate grief: “For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate . . . For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in [my body], waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my [body]. Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
Have you ever felt that way – discouraged and frustrated so often by the things that go through your mind and out of your mouth?
You can read the rest of this message on my blog:
https://inhimonly.blogspot.com/2024/10/who-will-deliver-us.html
ed him such desperate grief: “For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate . . . For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in [my body], waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my [body]. Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
Have you ever felt that way – discouraged and frustrated so often by the things that go through your mind and out of your mouth?
You can read the rest of this message on my blog:
https://inhimonly.blogspot.com/2024/10/who-will-deliver-us.html