We continue to cry with Tennyson, O for a new man to arise within me and subdue the man that I am.

So the battle isn't going to be over, though Jesus gives us immortality and incurruption.

Full deliverance awaits glorification.

Let's support him.

Winston Churchill once said, success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It's the courage to continue that counts.

That's a good thought to keep in mind as you battle against sin.

Sometimes you will defeat it, other times sin will batter and bruise you.

But the question is, do you still have the drive to keep fighting your sinful flesh?

If you don't, what does that say about your spiritual condition?

Those are questions to keep in mind today on Grace to you as John MacArthur continues his current series titled Freedom from Sin.

And now here's John.

Now you need to remember that in the seventh chapter of Romans, Paul is basically talking about the place of the law.

And he is pointing out that even as a believer, the law continues to have the function of demonstrating to the Christian the exceeding sinfulness of sin.

When he sees the law of God, which is heart-long to fulfill, and in comparison sees the sin in his life, he loves the law and loes the sin.

And the testimony of his own struggle, spiritually, with indwelling sin, is given in three laments.

It's a very sad passage. It's a very remorseful passage. It's a very poignant passage.

Because it isn't often that we get this kind of deep insight into the Apostle Paul's struggle.

Let's look at the third lament. And it's just like the rest.

But this is one way to get the point across, isn't it? Of how sorrowfully it is.

So that he goes over it, and over it, and over it. And here come the same three things. First, the condition, verse 21.

I find in a law that when I would do good, evil is present with me.

Now here we come back to the same condition. He says, I find a law, and by that he means a principle. He's using the word law.

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