Our Struggle with Sin

(Romans 7:15-25) For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

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(Galatians 5:17) For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.

24 The wretched man that I am Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then I myself serve the law of God with my mind but with my flesh I serve the law of sin

When you sin you are violating your new nature.

When Jesus saves us the nature of Jesus takes up residence in our lives

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(Matthew 5:1-3) Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven”

 “Ptochos” 

 In our original sinful nature we are destitute.
Jesus will change us. 

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We struggle with sin but we are not a slave to sin.  

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