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Excerpted from: Remaining Free

As we saw in John 8, Jesus said that whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. Paul’s lament over his struggle with sin backs that up—Paul says sin brings him into captivity. Let’s look at that in Romans 7. We won’t go through the back-and-forth about doing what he doesn’t really want to do, and vice versa, but we will just look at his conclusion:

Paul is quite clear that it is not the law of God that brings into captivity. Protestantism generally holds that Paul teaches that the law was nailed to the stake, yet Paul himself says he delights in the law of God. Those two ideas don’t work together. Back in verse 16, he says the law is good, and in verse 14, he says the law is spiritual. In the next chapter, he says it is the carnal mind that is hostile to God’s law, which means it is also hostile to the God from whom this good, delightful, spiritual law originates. The carnal mind serves a different god.

Paul identifies another law, meaning another rule or another active principle, that was at work within him, and it was this active principle that brought him into captivity. And even as he asks rhetorically who is going to deliver him from that carnality that remained, he also answers that Jesus Christ will give the deliverance. Again, the Son sets free.

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The Beatitudes, Part 6: The Pure in Heart
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The Relationship Deficit (Part Three)
The Seed of Overcoming

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Re-education (Part 1)
Harden Not Your Heart
Sin And Overcoming (Part 1): If Anyone Sins!
The Summertime Soldier and Sunshine Patriotism
Glorify You Me
Magic Doesn't Work (Part 2)
Whom the Lord Loves He Chastens (Part 1)
Knowing, Following, and Striving for Christ
Resuming Ecclesiastes (Part Three)
Elements of Judgment (Part Four)
The Conquering Offensive!
Sight to the Blind
Ecclesiastes Resumed (Part Twenty-Two)
Ecclesiastes Resumed (Part Twenty-Three)
Ecclesiastes Resumed (Part Twenty-Three)
Offerings (Part Six)
Confronting the Field of Battle
Antidote For Disunity!
Our Part in the Sanctification Process (Part Seven): Cultivating Goodness
Knowing Christ (Part 4)
Our Battle Against Evil Programming!
God Expects a Return on His Investment (Part Four)
Two Realities
Those Who Mourn
We Give Our Heads and Hearts
Lonely, But Not Forsaken
Four Views of Christ (Part 7)
The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part 5)
The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part 9)
Sin (Part 3)
The Christian Paradox (Part Two)
The Sacrifices of Leviticus (Part 5)
Prepare for Your Future Now
The Most Dangerous Battlefront
Snares
Conditioned Response
Will You Be Accounted Worthy for the Kingdom?
More Than Conquerors
The Need to Escape and Be Rescued
The Christian Medal of Honor

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