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THE NATURE OF SIN

What then do we conclude?

Is the Law identical with sin?

Certainly not! Nevertheless,

if it had not been for the Law,

I would not have recognized

sin. For instance I would not

have known about covetousness

if the Law had not said, You should

not covet and have an evil desire.

But sin, finding an opportunity, to

express itself got a hold on me and

provoked forbidden desires such as

lust and covetousness. For without

the Law sin is inactive.

Once I was alive, but quite apart from

the Law. But when the commandment

came, sin came alive and I died.

And the very legal ordinance which was

designed to bring life actually proved

death.

For sin, seizing the opportunity from the

commandment, beguiled me and using it

as a weapon, killed me.

The Law therefore is holy, and the

commandment is holy, just and good.

Romans 7.7-12).

Consider the following:

1) The Law is just, holy and good.

2) The problem is with human

sinful nature.

3) Sinful nature is enticed and

entrapped by the allure of sin.

4) Sin ends in death.

5) This is a vicious cycle which

is at work on those unaware

of the Law also.

6) The notion of sin or taboo is

pervasive in every society and

every human heart.

( More on this in Romans 2.14 and 15).

7) The Law proscribes what is taboo

in God’s sight and regulates human behavior.

However, the root cause of sinful behavior,

the violation of taboo, is wrong thinking due

to sinful nature.

Right action is predicated on right thinking.

A new mind based on spiritual rebirth is required.

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ grants this to us.

He paid our sin debt in full. We can be reborn of

the water and the Spirit. This is how we enter the

Kingdom of God, become a new creation in Him and live

forever with Him, the Father and the Holy Spirit.

WE THANK YOU FOREVER LORD JESUS!

HALLELUJAH!

Do you not know brothers and sisters,

for I am speaking to those who are

acquainted with the Law, that the legal claims

have power over a person only for as

long as he or she is alive?

For instance, a married woman is bound

by law to her husband as long as he lives,

but if her husband dies, she is discharged

from the law concerning her husband.

Accordingly, if while her husband lives,

she marries another man, she will be

called an adulteress, but if her husband

dies, she is free from that law, so that

if she marries another man she is not an

adulteress.

Likewise my brothers and sisters you

have undergone death as to the Law

through the crucified body of Christ,

so that you may now belong to Another,

to Him Who was raised from the dead

in order that we may bear fruit to God.

( Romans 7.1-4).

Consider this and meditate:

1) The Law stipulated the codes

of behavior that is accepted by God.

2) We are alive in a new way which

brings about true righteousness,

spiritual life and eternal union with

God through our Lord  and Savior Jesus

Christ who rose from the dead and brought

about our justification and sanctification.

Thererfore , as sin came to the world

through one man

and  death as the result of sin

so death spread to all men

because all men sinned.

Sin was in the world before

ever the Law was given

but sin is not charged to

men’s account where

there is no law.

Yet death held sway from

Adam to Moses

even over those who did not

transgress as Adam  did.

Adam was a type of the One

Who was to come.

But God’s free gift is not at all

to be compared to the trespass.

For if many died through one man’s

falling away, much more profusely

did God’s grace and the free gift

that comes through the undeserved

favor of the one Man Jesus Christ

abound and overflow for many.

( Romans 5.12-15).

Reflect on these verses. Pray and thank

God for His immesurable free flowing grace.

BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God,

 for it is not subject to the law of God,

nor indeed can be.

So then, those who are in the flesh can not please God.

BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit,

if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.

Now if anyone does not

have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin,

but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead

dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will

also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit

who dwells in you.

( Romans 6.7-11).

POINTS FOR MEDITATION

1) Carnal mind is against God

2) The problem of the carnal mind

3 The prerequisite of being in the Spirit

4) Definition of a spiritual person

5) The body is dead due to sin

6) The Holy Spirit is life

7) The Holy Spirit accomplishes the resurrection

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