Romans 7 (cont.)

I do not understand my own actions. Sometimes I do the very thing I hate. But now, by god’s grace, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me, that is in my flesh.  But, hallelujah, I have a desire to do what is right, even though I sometimes lack the ability to carry it out; for I delight in the law of God in my inner man. So my members wage war against my mind’s desire to serve and obey God.

But, praise God, I am in Christ and Christ is in me. He has delivered me from the penalty and possession of sin. There is a new man in me; he is incarcerated in this old sinner flesh, but he is divine in person and performance. He knows God, and he is God.  He is perfectly able to obey God and to bear the fruit of God. So then, with my mind, in my new man, I obey God. I reckon myself dead to sin and alive, forever more, to the spirit of God.