Do you ever feel like you're pushing a massive boulder up a hill? You grit your teeth,

strain every muscle, and promise yourself you'll finally conquer that stubborn sin, that destructive

habit, that crushing sense of inadequacy. But inevitably, your willpower fails.

The boulder rolls backward and you feel more broken than before.

Well, today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall strips away the illusion that willpower can tame the beast within.

In Romans chapter 7 and 8, we learn the answer isn't more

willpower. It's surrendering to a power infinitely greater than our own.

If you haven't already noticed in your worship folder today is an outline for us to follow

as we get into the letter to the Romans. Sometimes it's helpful just to have that little guide

along the way and we'll stay with it and refer to it from time to time. You might place it here

at Romans chapter 8, which will be really

the climax of the message, which begins at Romans 7, verse 24, and I'll read for you down through

chapter 8, verse 4. Beginning at Romans 7, 24, wretched man that I am, who will set me free from the body of this death.

Thanks me to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then on the one hand, I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other with my flesh, the law of sin.

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of

sin and of death. For what the law could not do weak as it was through the flesh, God did.

Sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, he condemns sin in the flesh.

So that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

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