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Wretched Man Fights a Dead Body

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.

Some people live vicariously through some sports hero living a fancy life that they are them, Instead of comparing their own physical condition against a professional they deceive themselves in a make believe world they are as good. Sadly, this is very offensive to mature people who understand it may be only one in a million that can be such a great athlete.

Proverbs 18:2 A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

2 Corinthians 10:12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

The facts are not offensive if we are honest and want a sound mind, not being mislead, or misleading others with such foolishness. Simply put, living a lie is not being sound of mind! The apostle Paul states something very offensive to people living a lie, in a fancy world of religious sports, what do we mean? Those believing that they are or can be Christ on earth in the flesh because they read or hear a minster preach about how wonderful Christ was. Christ came because we could not be good enough to run the race of life, that is, to be perfect enough because we are all born into sin, which disqualifies us from meeting the perfect law of God.

Isaiah 32:6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

1 Corinthians 3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

Revelation 5:12 saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!"

Someone that believes they are a superior a professional athlete because they watch sports and love sports thinking they are running a race, are doing so in their own minds and emotions, but they simply could not qualify to get into the race or sport from the gate because of their physical condition. It is a pretty foolish seen when one of these fans are invited to try against a professional athlete.

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

False religion has made Christ into play dole where he can be wrapped around our personal feeling to comfort us in whatever our needs and wants are in this world. Christ is an idol to false religion, an object that lives by human feeling projected into dead object that they can love, making it more real and human with feeling like our own.

1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

Rom.1:20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse. 1:21 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

Sadly, the apostle Paul words above are offensive, fear inspiring, and confusing to so many Christian's. How could Paul not feel good about himself he was a blessed man, a prosperous man in Christ than the person pictures their successful minister with a big church, a nice suit a beautiful home, and a very nice hair cut believing this was how Paul must of sounded and looked like!

2 Corinthians 10:1 Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you.

2Cor.12:9 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

However, Paul did something that every truth lover must do, he looked honestly at God's law, a perfect law that only a perfect person without sin could complete, that is, finish the race of life, and be rewarded with eternal life for keeping the whole law in every jot and tittle of it. He did not delude himself with false reasoning because of his desire, he actually tried to be perfect enough to run against the law without sinning.

Rom. 7:9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
7:10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death; 7:11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. 7:12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
7:13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

He found no matter how much he loved the law, God, and himself, he failed miserably under the righteousness of the law. What he did not do was entertain himself with the laws justice, thinking it applied to someone else because he loved it with zeal. No! He did not live in a fancy world of make believe, he did as a judge would do, divorce himself from himself and judged himself by the law without emotions. The facts became clear if he was honest and just about himself not showing favoritism, but judging himself as he would another person he did not know personally.

Matt.7:1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.
7:2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. 7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye? 7:4 Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye? 7:5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

The law slaughter him, it killed him, and buried him in unrighteousness he could not find any help within his own sinful flesh that would redeem him from a body under going death from Adam sin. He did not delude himself that he was exempt, special above the law for being a teacher of the law, he faced the dragon eye to eye, the fear of judgment he had avoided by making others uphold it. What a shock! What a truth! Nothing in his flesh was good or righteous, nothing he had thought was correct regarding his personal worth was correct, nothing society or his religion had taught him was the truth!

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. 7:19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.
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.
7:21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

Now he stated the only truth anyone of us can say honestly, who will love me enough to delivery me out of the wretch condition of sin that offend God's righteous law? Who could forgive such a thing, who would want to help a wretch man like me? Paul found a truth on that day one we all must learn, he could not judge himself correctly, or could he judge other correctly, he found God's love was greater than his own judgmental heart of himself and others, he had completely misinterpreted God, and what he thought God was like? He had thought until this day God would not accept him if he was not good enough in his flesh, but rather he now knew God was not judging his flesh.

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.{NU omits "who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit"}

Romans 8:3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

Romans 8:4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Romans 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

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.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Romans 8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Romans 8:13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Paul was judging the flesh, but not God or Christ, they were done with what could not be reformed that had been dead since Adam sinned and past on to all mankind. God was concerned with life, and his judgment of life with the fruit of life, the Holy Spirit that waters and grows the tree of life into eternal life with God in paradise. God was not a God of the dead, of Adam sin, he was a God of living the life found in his Son Christ Jesus, Paul had been sadly mistaken as are all those in false religion that practice reforming a dead flesh to God into idol to hang pretty things upon, like words, titles, good works, knowledge, clothing that makes one look clean and righteous, but it is an illusion of putting something clean on a dead body to comfort us from the truth of being a wretch man unable to bring ourselves to life with God by Spirit, and truth!

Haggai 2:12 'If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?'" The priests answered, "No."

1 Peter 3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Haggai 2:13 Then Haggai said, "If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?" The priests answered, "It will be unclean."
2:14 Then Haggai answered, "'So is this people, and so is this nation before me,' says Yahweh; 'and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.
2:15 Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh.
2:16 Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
2:17 I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn't turn to me,' says Yahweh.
2:18 'Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple was laid, consider it.
2:19 Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven't brought forth. From this day will I bless you.'"

Titus 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit.

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