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I Don't Practice What I Desire!

****Rom.7:15 For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. 7:16 But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good. 7:17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

Why the Law? The apostle Paul summats the cold hard truth of the law that all of us are broken trying to perform by rules created for a sinless person. Yet, and here is the key, our mind tells us we can keep the law tricking us, so God gives us the law so we might see the lie of our fallen flesh when compared to God's glory.

Romans 3:7 For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

Hebrews 6:18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

James 3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

However, our fleshly mind is relentless in not giving up the idea we can be called righteous by works of law. Two force come into play, the truth and the lie, the law is perfect, it is righteous and good, and our flesh loves the law, but then the lie of our fallen flesh exposed on every point when we start thinking we can be made righteous by keeping the law as a sinner.

Romans 3:14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."{Psalm 10:7}

Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Rom.7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

A sinner cannot stand in God's judgment, under his law, it only curse us as sinner painfully revealing how far we fall short. Yet, the very nature of sin in us is to judge others as wicked for not keeping the law, while we live a lie because we think we are keeping the choice parts of the law. In other words, the law judges all of us as unrighteous, not righteous so how does one keep a little more law than their neighbor thinking we have a better standing? It is when one thinks, as these brothers were thinking back then that Christ life had made them righteous so they could judge others as not keeping the law making them prove they had been made righteous in Christ.

Matt.5:19 Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Matt.5:27 "You have heard that it was said, {TR adds "to the ancients,"} 'You shall not commit adultery;'{Exodus 20:14}
5:28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Romans 3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

Galatians 3:11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."{Habakkuk 2:4}

No! No! No! The law killed us dead in our flesh as sinners, it did not give us life, or judge us worthy in our flesh, if one thinks so they are sadly mistaken. It was the blood of an innocent victim, an animal that purchase our sins, so a person could be alive before God, and not judged into death by a righteous law. All were equal to the laws judgment, God was not partial letting some off because of special zeal for law keeping. No!

Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

Ephesians 2:1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins.

Ephesians 2:5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

Paul now wrestle with this subject for us, how could he love the law so much and yet be condemn by it? Something is wrong here? Zeal has always been the key for the flesh in progressing up the corporate ladder right? But not with God's law, no works of law, no zeal, no desire of Paul flesh was good enough to please the power of the laws in its judgment upon his sinful flesh. It did not matter if he hated his sinful flesh and its every unrighteous lust. It did not matter that he thought he must be righteous because he himself condemned all unrighteousness.

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

The law stood perfectly, impartially, without prejudices towards all that came under it. It soundly declared we are not righteous no matter what we feel or think, nothing we could do in our own will would deliver us from a body under going death because of sin.

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

1 John 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Now what was left, total humility before God: I have nothing to offer you heavenly Father, I am a sinner without hope, a broken man.”

Rom.7:24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death? 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

Luke.18:9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
18:10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. 18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 18:12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.' 18:13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

The law was completed in Christ for us that is the gift of God, the hope given each one of us and these brothers, it is called unmerited kindness, grace, and/or undeserved kindness. In other words, God by the law of Christ without partiality removes our sins, and does not bring them up again by reenacting the law, why? Because we are dead in our flesh, put away, buried so our flesh is without judgment of the law.

Romans 10:4 For Christ is the fulfillment{or, completion, or end} of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Romans 6:4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Now if that is true the only way we could be judged is by our own self-righteousness, and/or that of others. Subsequently, that is precisely what was happening here, in an attempt to resurrect the already judged flesh by laws that did not pronounce the flesh as good and righteous, but only condemned all of us as hopeless. No! We are not worthy we are just as Christ stated to his apostles good for nothing slaves in our flesh, but loved of God in our spirit because we are in Christ, and he in us, which when put into plain simple words means it is his righteous life in us that makes us worthy.

Galatians 2:18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

1 Corinthians 10:23 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."{Deuteronomy 27:26}

Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"{Deuteronomy 21:23}

Luke 17:5 The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."
17:6 The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you. 17:7 But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,' 17:8 and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'? 17:9 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not. 17:10 Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.'"

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