Friday, July 12, 2019
Rom 7 9Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came,
sin sprang to life and I died. 10I found that the very commandment that
was intended to bring life actually brought death". The apostle is not
saying that his life is controlled by sin continuously being put to death. He is teaching one conversion. When he was regenerated the
law exacerbated his sin. The law was the instrument that put us to
death in Christ. When we dont need to be re-crucified by the law. The
point is that when we died to the law we were given an understanding that we are sinners. The apostle is not teaching about
putting sin to death by word and Spirit. He is describing the
relationship to sin in our salvation. This is why he describes the new
understanding of his sin with frustration. 14We know that the law is
spiritual but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15I do not understand what
I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if
I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it
is, it is no longer I myself who do it is sin living in , but it me. In my new understanding I acknowledge
that I sin all the time. But now it is a cursed thing. The apostle
understands that he is no longer identified with that cursed thing. Just
like the Psalmist he points to his redeemed self.
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