Rom.7:19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.
Some would concluded at face value Paul practice evil within the society he lived under, but no. Paul was an exemplary Jew, he was foremost in obeying God’s law with zeal, so how did he practice evil? Humans divided evil into degrees of damage done to society, but God does not, sin is evil to God, God is good and without sin.
1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
James 3:16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. James 4:16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
1 Peter 2:1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking.
Paul practice evil because he could not, not be a sinner; his sin was born into him like all human, and that is why we died. In other words, sin practice in Paul because it could not be removed as part of him. Thus, the Law condemned Paul as practicing sinner. Under the justice of the Law one practicing sin, must be put too death; the wages sin pays is death.
Many Christians believe their desire is enough to please God, Paul found out his desire was not enough to satisfy God Justice according to the Law. Some also believe the closer they get to the Law the better their standing is with God, this too is a lie. Our deepest desire to practice the Law better does not satisfy God’s justice for our sins.
Rom.7:20 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
Paul now gives personality too his sin, separating it will from his spirit, or his spirit desire to serve God. Paul does not make his sin a part of his personality, so that he can deal with it according to God’s law. In other words, Paul is saying, the sin in my flesh is so powerful that it over rules the will of my spirit. If I don’t separated it from myself I cannot live within myself.
It is not my will, but sin's will in me that I do, I can logically see the power of sins will controlling me, but I know that the good I do is not enough because the bad of my sin undoes all the good I do. Legally I cannot earn my way out of this dilemma. I am powerless, in removing the sin from myself, whereby, I thought the Law would removed. but it only make it greater in me. The deeper I know the law the deeper my judgment!
Paul could no longer delude himself by any personal goodness trying to making up for his evil (sin) under the Law. He must face God’s Law, and the reality of his own condition.
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Rom.7:19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.
Some would concluded at face value Paul practice evil within the society he lived under, but no. Paul was an exemplary Jew, he was foremost in obeying God’s law with zeal, so how did he practice evil? Humans divided evil into degrees of damage done to society, but God does not, sin is evil to God, God is good and without sin.
1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
James 3:16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
James 4:16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
1 Peter 2:1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking.
Paul practice evil because he could not, not be a sinner; his sin was born into him like all human, and that is why we died. In other words, sin practice in Paul because it could not be removed as part of him. Thus, the Law condemned Paul as practicing sinner. Under
the justice of the Law one practicing sin, must be put too death; the wages sin pays is death.
Many Christians believe their desire is enough to please God, Paul found out his desire was not enough to satisfy God Justice according to the Law. Some also believe the closer they get to the Law the better their standing is with God, this too is a lie. Our deepest desire to practice the Law better does not satisfy God’s justice for our sins.
Rom.7:20 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
Paul now gives personality too his sin, separating it will from his spirit, or his spirit desire to serve God. Paul does not make his sin a part of his personality, so that he can deal with it according to God’s law. In other words, Paul is saying, the sin in my flesh
is so powerful that it over rules the will of my spirit. If I don’t separated it from myself I cannot live within myself.
It is not my will, but sin's will in me that I do, I can logically see the power of sins will controlling me, but I know that the good I do is not enough because the bad of my sin undoes all the good I do. Legally I cannot earn my way out of this dilemma. I am powerless, in removing the sin from myself, whereby, I thought the Law would
removed. but it only make it greater in me. The deeper I know the law the deeper my judgment!
Paul could no longer delude himself by any personal goodness trying to making up for his evil (sin) under the Law. He must face God’s Law, and the reality of his own condition.