LIVING WITH EVIL CLOSE AT HAND

LIVING WITH EVIL CLOSE AT HAND
Romans 7.14-25
Romans: Redeemed To Flourish – Part 7 of 14

v. 13 “… sin, in order to be recognized as sin, was producing death in me through what is good …” (csb)
WITH SIN CLOSE BY, WE MUST BE READY TO …

EXPERIENCE Inner Hostility Romans 6.6 “We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.” (esv)
v. 24 “Who will deliver me from this body of death?” (esv)
v. 14 “… I am of the flesh, sold under sin.” (esv)   v. 18 “… I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh.” (esv) 
v. 15 “… I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.” (esv) v. 17 “So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.” (esv) vv. 22–23 “… I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind …” (niv)

EMBRACE THEIR Essential Identity v. 18 “I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.” v. 19 “… the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.” (esv)
v. 22 “For in my inner being I delight in God’s law …” (niv) v. 25 “… I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.” (esv)
2 Corinthians 5.17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!” (csb)

ENJOY Divine Certainty vv. 24–25 “Who will set me free from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!” (nas)
Philippians 3.20–21 “… Jesus Christ … will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body …” (esv)
John 14.3 “… I will come back and take you to be with me …” (niv)