Beatitude #2- Those Who Mourn, Part 2 (TMF:393)

Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Peace to Live By: Beatitude #2- Those Who Mourn, Part 2 (TMF:393) - Daniel Litton
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       Remember what the Apostle Paul said at the end of Romans chapter 7? Let’s turn over there quickly. So turn or tap there, and let’s consider Romans chapter 7 and verses 21 through 25. This text states: “So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin” (ESV). Here, Paul is talking about his current condition as a Christian. It grieved Paul that even though he wanted to do good to please God, his sin nature in his body would get the best of him from time to time. And as I already stated, it is true that we as Christians don’t lose our sin nature in this life. We will still sin against God even though we want to do good. Now, this is not an excuse to sin at will, but it simply means that no matter how hard we try, we will still fail. But God still loves us.