Romans Chapter 7: THE BATTLE WITHIN

in Romans Chapter 7, Paul describes the battle that rages within each of us. A battle between the flesh and the spirit. It is a battle that takes place both before and after we are saved but there is a key difference

Before we are saved there is no possible means of winning this war. Our only hope of escape is death – and yet even that is not victory because death, without salvation, is eternal separation from God and torment in hell

That’s why Paul declares

24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?

But Paul doesn’t leave us without hope as he continues by saying

25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

The key is Jesus and because of Him and through Him we are not only released (set free) from the curse of sin, but we have His power to defeat the battle that the sinful nature (the flesh) continues to wage against our Spiritual man, which has been given us in Christ Jesus.

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