Remember, 8 comes AFTER 7.

10/21/22 Remember, 8 comes AFTER 7

Remember, 8 comes AFTER 7. 

People use Romans 7 to prove that Christians continue to be corrupted and dominated by the "sin in me" (sinful nature) after conversion.

The Holy Spirit refers to this inherent sin nature as, "evil...present in me," "another law in my members," "the law of sin, which is in my members," "the body of this death," "the law of sin."

Yet, the very chapter that is referenced to "prove" that Christians will never be pure in this world; referenced to prove we will never be delivered from indwelling sin, carnality, the Old Man, the Carnal Mind, the Double Mind; the very chapter they use actually says that we are delivered from this inherited corruption through Jesus Christ.

Those who proclaim a life dominated by the sinful nature fail to point out that Paul, in this same chapter, asked who would deliver believers from "the body of this death." He then answers the question in,

Romans 7:25
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.."

The deliverance from sin is twofold. Remember, we were born with a Human Nature (the nature to be human) and we were born with the Adamic or Sinful or Carnal nature (the nature to sin).

Human nature is not inherently sinful. Jesus was human (fully human), but He was not sinful. He did not have the corrupted nature of Adam. This was because Jesus was not a child of Adam, He was the Son of God and He was virgin born, breaking the connection with the sinful, Adamic nature.

On the other hand, we have inherited Adam's corrupted, sinful nature. We are not guilty for having been born with a sinful nature, however our whole self suffers because of that corruption.

Though we are saved from our own sins at the time of our salvation, we are not delivered, cleansed from the sin nature. This is why new converts have this inner battle, which is addressed by Paul in Romans 7. But God has provided deliverance from this SIN. It cannot be forgiven, but it can be cleansed out of us.

We are delivered from the sins we have willfully committed in the past, through forgiveness, cleansing of the conscience, regeneration, newness of life, imparting of the Holy Spirit. Salvation or conversion does not remove the Old Man, the Carnal Mind, the Double Mind. You cannot be forgiven something, for which you are not guilty.

However, God not only wants to deliver us from the SIN nature as well as SINS committed, He has provided a way for believers to be purified from all sin, through the infilling purifying presence of the Holy Spirit. Again, we are not forgiven of the indwelling SIN, instead God cleanses, purifies us from the Old Man, Carnal Mind, Double Mind, and we are told that deliverance comes through, by and from Jesus Christ.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE, Romans 8 comes after Romans 7

In Romans 8 we are told, 

Romans 8:2 (Free from the law of sin and death, the carnal mind spoken of in chapter 7)
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 

Romans 8:3 (Christ condemned sin in the flesh, the same sin spoken of in Romans 7)
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

Don't cut God's message off before God is finished telling you His message.