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Originally Posted by Timmy
Congratulations. I bet Paul would envy you ( Romans 7:19). |
Ah, if you only knew how Paul was relating past mistakes in chapter 7 and how he learned to be delivered from the body of death through Jesus, by the work of God, Whom he thanked for deliverance. He gave the remedy to chapter 7 in the last three verses, which remedy is what he elaborated upon in chapter 6. Cannot God create in us a new clean heart?
Chapter 7 relates to us his mistake in walking after the flesh to serve God, which he identified through the ordeal. His info in 6:13 shows what he failed to do in times past -- walk after the Spirit by calling upon God's strength to use his members as instruments of righteousness rather than exert strenuous effort to make his flesh serve God in his own power.