Glory be to God! Welcome everyone to Episode #785, Season 8.
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💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I exhort: You have some lukewarm believers, those who confess Christ, pointing to Paul over there in Romans 7 highlighting that Paul also suffered from living a life characterized by sin! They say even Paul cried out, "O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?" They would have you believe that even Paul was tortured with sin!
Today we will get some clarity! Chapter 7 seems to be a digression where Paul is talking about the experience of trying to live a victorious born born-again life and the power of following the laws of Moses. This chapter has been used as a license for many people who claimed the Name of Jesus, to live wicked lives!
Just think about it: You have Romans chapter 6 and Romans chapter 8 sandwiching Romans chapter 7. How is Paul, as they would say and interpret, giving us license in Romans chapter 7 to be "just humans" who are saved but have "no choice but to sin" - they will have you believe that we "just can't help it" and we can turn to Romans 7 and be comforted by the fact that we, like Paul, ALL are "wretched men - woe is us!"
📌 Romans chapter 6 - We find Paul telling us, that how we are dead to sin, we are no longer slaves to sin, and that we abandon our old ways and walk not in unrighteousness.
📌 And then we have Romans 7, Paul is saying "wretched man that I am," not that he's willfully sinning and living a life characterized by sin, but is highlighting the fact that without being in Christ, and living by the laws of Moses, you won't be able to live in righteousness.
📌 And then we have Romans 8 answering the question that Paul asked as a man living under the laws of Moses: "who can deliver me from this body of sin?" Well, Romans 8:1-7 answers the question: Jesus Christ can! It is Jesus Christ, it is in Him that we have victory over sin. And without Jesus Christ, there is no victory over sin! Anyone who lived under the 613 laws of Moses could not have victory over sin. The Bible even tells us that the Law justifies no one!
Live clean. Be holy. Consider all your ways before the LORD, for we will be judged by them!
Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!
