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The Biblicist · Jul 21, 2013

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Another contrast in Romans 7:15-25 are TWO LAWS whereby the same personal pronoun "I" operate under.

1. One is called "the law of sin" - vv. 22-25
2. The other is called the "law of my mind" - vv. 22-25

1. The law of sin operates in "the flesh" or in "this body of death. - v. 24
2. The other law operates in "my mind" - vv. 22-25

1. The law of sin overules the will to produce only evil - vv. 15-20
2. The law of "my mind" only chooses to do good - vv. 18-25

1. The law of sin represents the fallen nature or "the flesh" in which there is "NOTHING GOOD" - v. 18
2. The law of "my mind" represents the inward man who delights in the law of God. - v. 21

1. The law of sin or "the flesh" serves sin - v. 25
2. The law of my mind "serves God" - v. 25

1. There is no redemption/salvation for the law of sin but only "death" - v. 24
2. There is deliverance "from" this internal fallen nature operating in the flesh for the "I" after the inward man - v. 24

1. There is no eradication of the law of sin now - v. 25
2. The only freedom to serve God is through this "law" of my mind now - v. 25

1. There is deliverance "from" this law of sin now only through "Jesus Christ" - v. 24; Rom. 8:9-13
2. This deliverance "from" the law of sin comes only through death - v. 24; Rom. 8:12-13

1. "The Flesh" of the pronoun 'I" is "sold under sin" - v. 14
2. "The Flesh" chooses only sin - v. 25
3. "The flesh" serves only sin - vv. 15-20.
4. "The flesh" is condemned to "death" - v. 24
5.. "the law of sin" is unredeemable due to the fact it is the "LAW of SIN"
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Romans 7:1-6 demonstrates we are dead to the Law due to the dead body of Jesus Christ. Hence, a lost man cannot be justified by law keeping but only condemned due to the weakness of the flesh not because of the weakness of the law (Rom. 7:7-13) and neither can the justified man be sanctified by the law not due to the weakness of the law but the weakness of the flesh or carnal nature (Rom. 7:14-25). Hence, justification is by the work of Christ (Rom. 8:1-3) and sanctificatoin is by the work of the Spirit (Rom. 8:9-13) and both are by faith.

In Romans 3-6 we are freed from sin legally by justification and we are freed from sin spiritually be regeneration. However, we have not been freed from sin "in the flesh" but the "flesh" is still "under sin" condemned to death (Rom. 7:14) because we are "carnal" in regard to "this body of death" and the "law of sin" that still operates in our flesh and death proves it.

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