15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

...19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.

...23 but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched person that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Photo by Owen.outdoors on Pexels.com Teaching Summary Of Romans 6–7 Overall Themes Union with Christ — believers share in His death and resurrection. Freedom from sin’s dominion — not to live lawlessly, but to live under grace. Slavery redefined — everyone serves something; believers now serve righteousness. The Law’s purpose and limits — holy and good, yet unable to produce obedience. The…

Romans 7:14-25 14 For we know that the law is spiritual–but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin. 15 Because I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want–instead, I do what I hate. 16 But if I do what I don’t want, I still agree that the law is good. 17 But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me. 18 Because I know that nothing good lives in me, that…

Romans 7:7-13 7 So, what should we say to this? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through its exposure in the law. Because I surely would not have known what it means to greedily seek after something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”[1] 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds…

Romans 7:1-6 1 Or do you not know, brothers (because I am speaking to ones who know the law), that the law is lord over a man as long as he lives? 2 For example, a married woman is obligated by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage. 3 So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she will be…

Friday, 3/20/26

SCRIPTURE:

I do not do the good things I want to do, but I do the bad things I do not want to do. [...] So I have learned this rule: When I want to do good, evil is there with me. In my mind, I am happy with God’s law. But I see another law working in my body, which makes war against the law that my mind accepts.  That other law working in my body is the law of sin, and it makes me its prisoner. ~ Romans 7:19, 21-23

OBSERVATION:

I blame distractions and boredom and all manner of other things for not doing what I really want to do...

...when it really boils down to being selfish and self-centered...

I feel - hear? - the arguments but too often plow ahead instead of pulling up short, confessing the desire to give in and asking for the strength to do - and be who - He would have me do and be... 

Not to credit myself for being so "holy minded..."

...but let others see Him... 

...and give me the peace - His peace - and joyfulness - in Him - that allows me to give Him thanks and glory...

...and set me free from being sin's prisoner...

APPLICATION:

Remember the rule: Evil is there with me

Break the rule...

Verse 4:

Be joined to Him

Bear fruit for God

Verse 6: serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

PRAYER: (using verse 25 - "personalized")

Father God - in my mind I am a slave to [Your] law - a slave the Christ's redeeming life and sacrifice, to Your grace and mercy - but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin. I thank You for saving me through Jesus Christ [my] Lord! In His Name, and for Your glory...

For Him... for you... for yours!

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