A Lifelong Battle – And Hope for an End

Romans 7:14-25

A Basic Outline of the Book of Romans

Romans 1:1 – 3:20: All have and deserve God’s wrath (Sin)

Romans 3:21 – 5:21: In Christ, we are (Justification)

Romans 6 – 7: In Christ, we are (Sanctification)

Romans 8: In Christ, we have the hope of (Glorification)

Romans 9 – 11: God is in our salvation (Election)

Romans 12 – 16: Practical (Christian Living)

Romans 7:14-25, ESV

¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.

1. Christians believe God’s standards are , though we are still .

¹⁵ For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. ¹⁶ Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. ¹⁷ So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. ¹⁸ For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. ²⁰ Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

2. Christians desire to do what is , though we still have .

²¹ So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.

3. Christians desire to do what is , though we still deal with .

²² For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, ²³ but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 

4. Christians in God’s standards, though we still have tendencies.

²⁴ Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? ²⁵ Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!

5. Christians will one day be from the struggle with sin by .
   “Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will   be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.” (1 John 3:2, ESV)

So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

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