Well, to be a Christian is a wonderful thing. It's the greatest thing, in fact, to find forgiveness

in the cross of our Savior, to be united to Christ by His Spirit, to have the Father as our

own Father, and to commune with Him as His child. These are the greatest gifts a creature can

receive. And so we give thanks. And yet we also look forward to our resurrection and to new bodies

that will enjoy God forever without any sinful impediments to our giving God all the glory. He

is worthy to receive from us. And in that, experiencing the fullest possible joy we can experience

in ourselves cannot wait. But for now, we wait. Because for all the incredible gifts and blessings we

now have in Christ, to be a Christian in this life doesn't mean we are free from our disordered

loves. We're not. We're not. Every Christian feels it, feels an ongoing civil war on the inside

in our twisted loves and longings. We both love God. And we find in us the remains of a

treasonous impulse against the God we love, in our attraction to sin. The Bible explains this

arguably Roman 7 verses 14 to 25 makes the point less arguably Galatians 5 16 to 17 makes the same

point too. So then what do we do as Christians redeemed by Christ's blood sealed by the Spirit

adopted by the Father? What do we do with the disordered loves that we still find at work inside of us?

Pastor John explained at the end of a sermon on Romans chapter 7 preached in 2001. Here he is

drawing out pastoral application. In view of all that the Bible says to us about our condition,

our fallen condition with this body of death and our sinful condition with the body

acting in treason to join forces with the power of sin to tempt us.

In view of the fact that there's a law of sin still active and there's a body of death,

we should not be surprised or thrown off balance when we meet in ourselves and in our children

and in our spouses and in our loved ones and in our colleagues and our roommates and our neighbors.

Some really excessive and distorted bodily desires. Let me give you some examples and then say

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