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Rom.7:21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

Paul found his experience painful, while judging others, taking their own right to life, while he now understood he himself was judged evil under God’s Law.

1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."{Psalm 34:12-16}

Paul had received a reality check, while thinking because of his love for the Law God exempt or justified him from the Laws justice. Many Christians find themselves in this hopeless state after judging other to death by God’s Law, or the rules of their group.

Finding the more they judge the more they are judged, why?
Will the more knowledge we have of the Law the greater our judgment is under the Law. We cannot judge according to God’s Law without judging ourselves. Paul finally understood this that he to was evil under the Law as a practicing sinner, deserving of death. The more he understood about the Law, or the deeper he dug into the Law to judge others he found more judgment for himself, why? Because the Law has no personality; it is not partial, it was written on stone not hearts.

Paul found no mercy under the Law, he found reproach , condemnation, death, and a curse not God’s love for zeal for His Law.

Rom. 7:22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man, 7:23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

The Jews had often been lead into captivity under God’s punishment for disobeying His Laws. Although, their captivity was under the cruelest nations, Paul tells us of a captivity equally cruel claiming the lives of every person on earth, sin. This captor is evil, and wicked causing the human race all sickness, disease, and death.

No matter what Paul’s mind concluded, or his spirit desired he found his flesh's will under the power of this cruelest captor - sin. Paul had lost his freedom to do as he willed, although his mind thought he had the will to do as he pleased, the Law convicted otherwise – captivating him to sin and death.

Paul was led not by his good desires, but by his evil desire under sin, and when he warred with sins his good desire lost, because he was still a sinner under the power of his captor. There could have been no more of a hopeless situation for a person to be in.

Paul being a slave under the control of his captor; believing that he has been free by his captor (the Law); moreover, convincing oneself that their love of freedom was going to remove their captivity, and then finding; it is their own desire for freedom that actually deceived themselves into more captivity of sin. Paul was just such a man who believed his love for Law was freedom, but instead to be deceived by the very god he worshiped, that he actually was left in cruel captivity too a slave of sins law.