How do we respond to indwelling sin? (Rom. 7:14-25)
Picture from Unsplash. This is a very controversial passage, and as a result it is easy for us to get wrapped up in the debates about its interpretation. However, when we do that, we can end up missing the point of the passage and the benefit it is meant to give us. Scripture is not meant to be a ball batted back and forth between opposing viewpoints. It is meant to be medicine for our souls that heals our spiritual diseases and causes us to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And God does not throw inconsequential truths at us. Romans 7 is not filler, nor is it here merely as something for the intellectually curious. It’s meant to teach us some very important stuff. So what is that stuff? Having established the fact that Paul is speaking in these verses as a regenerate man, as a believer, and that he is speaking here about the inner conflict that is the result of indwelling sin, what lessons can we lea...
