My New Inward Man

Romans 6; 2 Corinthians 5; Romans 7

Thank you, Father, that though I was at one time a slave to sin, yet now, I have obeyed from my heart the doctrine shown to me by your holy scripture and witnessed to me by your Holy Spirit, and I have been set free from sin.

Now I have gladly become a slave to righteousness. First of all to the righteousness of Christ Jesus, which perfects me for fellowship with you, Father. A righteousness accomplished and completed once for all time, solely by Christ, and imputed to my credit. You, Father, made Jesus, who knew no sin, to be sin for me, that I could become your divine righteousness in him.

Secondly, I in my new nature do put my old fleshy man to death, and live in the newness of the spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. The letter of the law is spiritual, but I am still carnal. Sometimes what I want to do, that I do not practice, but praise God, I still want to live righteous, Father.

So in my flesh, nothing good dwells. But my new man, my new inward man, delights in your law, Father, and wars against my flesh, and reckons my flesh dead to sin and alive unto righteousness, Father. Praise you, Father, Christ has delivered me from this body of death!

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