We Still Have to Deal with the Sin-Nature (TMF:1689)

Thursday, September 02, 2021
Peace to Live By: We Still Have to Deal with the Sin-Nature (TMF:1689) - Daniel Litton
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       Back in Romans 7, Paul asks, “Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin” (Romans 7:24-25, ESV). Notice how Paul says, “Who will deliver me from this body of death?” He doesn’t say, “Yes, praise the Lord. I have been delivered from my body of death!” That’s because it hasn’t happened yet. It hadn’t happened yet for him at the time he wrote this, and it hasn’t happened yet for us. Again, we still have to deal with the sin-nature in our lives. We have not been freed from any effect whatsoever of dealing with the sin-nature. We are not like Adam in the Garden, where originally he didn’t have a sin-nature. No, Christian, we still, even after our conversion, have, and have to deal with, the sin-nature. Otherwise, if we were like Adam in the Garden before he sinned, we could always, one hundred percent of the time, choose not to sin.