Romans 7:13-25

Romans 7:13-25

In this passage , Paul speaks personally and with deep emotion. He is expressing to us his personal struggle with trying to live the sanctified life according to the law, in his own power. As Paul speaks to us in this passage, he does so in the present tense first person singular. What Paul says here is personal and transparent. It is the required lesson that every born again Christian will have to learn, we cannot live a righteous sanctified life in our own power. We will fail every time and fail miserably at that.Paul finally comes to the point were he cries out, "O wretched man that I am". This is the cry of a person who fully realizes the futility of trying to live a godly life in his own power, He cries out for who will deliver him, The answer is so simple; Jesus! Until we come to the end of ourselves, realizing our incapability to live a victorious godly life in our own power, we will never embrace the victorious life that God has called all His children to who have been justified freely by His grace. Sanctification requires that we first cry out, "O wretched man that I am". Only then are we able to cry out who will deliver me. The instant we cry out who will deliver me, Jesus is right there to deliver us. This is the only way to reach the path of Christian victory that God has prepared for each and every one of His children.
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Chapter 7
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
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