Romans 7:14-7:25

Understanding the Struggle in Our Souls - Part 2

We've been making our way through Romans chapter seven, and today we begin the final message in our series through this powerful chapter. Lately, you may recall, We've been discussing the notion of Christians struggling with their sin nature. The apostle Paul's words here were borne out of his own personal experience and that's why his life serves as such a powerful testimony of what God can do through someone who trusts completely in Him.

  1. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
  2. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
  3. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
  4. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
  5. 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.
  6. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
  7. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
  8. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
  9. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
  10. 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.
  11. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
  12. 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.