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The Conflict of Two Natures


"We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am a creature of the flesh [worldly, self-reliant—carnal and unspiritual], sold into slavery to sin [and serving under its control]. For I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled and bewildered by them]. I do not practice what I want to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate [and yielding to my human nature, my worldliness—my sinful capacity]. Now if I habitually do what I do not want to do, [that means] I agree with the Law, confessing that it is good (morally excellent). So now [if that is the case, then] it is no longer I who do it [the disobedient thing which I despise], but the sin [nature] which lives in me. For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh [my human nature, my worldliness—my sinful capacity]. For the willingness [to do good] is present in me, but the doing of good is not. For the good that I want to do, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. But if I am doing the very thing I do not want to do, I am no longer the one doing it [that is, it is not me that acts], but the sin [nature] which lives in me. So I find it to be the law [of my inner self], that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. For I joyfully delight in the law of God in my inner self [with my new nature], but I see a different law and rule of action in the members of my body [in its appetites and desires], waging war against the law of my mind and subduing me and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is within my members. Wretched and miserable man that I am! Who will [rescue me and] set me free from this body of death [this corrupt, mortal existence]? Thanks be to God [for my deliverance] through Jesus Christ our Lord! ....... (Romans 7:14-25)

No Law Keeping Only Faith In Christ Jesus

No law keeping can save us from sins bondage. Laws only denote our sin nature. Faith in God's Son, Jesus Christ, and His finished Work on the Cross is the only way to salvation (John 14:6). Our "good behavior" is not a right to salvation. One must have faith to please God (Hebrews 11:6). Thanks be to God Who sent His Son to pardon our sins (John 3:16). It is His [God's] Holy Spirit Who empowers us. We only need to put and keep our faith in Jesus, and keep it there daily.

Allow God's Holy Spirit To Work His Work

You may never be sinless, but you will probably sin less if you allow God's Holy Spirit to work the work.

"The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you (Romans 8:11).

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