What Happens When We Choose to Sin (TMF:1671)

Monday, August 09, 2021
Peace to Live By: What Happens When We Choose to Sin (TMF:1671) - Daniel Litton
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       Remember what Paul said? Let us recall. Ephesians 6:12: “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places” (ESV). Hmm. Here, Paul says we don’t wrestle against flesh and blood only. Verse 16 of Romans 7: “Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good” (ESV). Two things happen at the moment we make the wrong choice, when we choose to sin. First, when we do wrong, and then feel bad for it, we show that we agree with what God has said. After all, we have identified whatever incorrect action we have done as sin. We feel bad, coming to understand that we have sinned, and then we confess that sin with our mouths, showing that we agree with God’s law, whether we just confess it to God or whether we confess it to others.