The Inner Struggle
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In Romans 7, the Apostle Paul describes a battle raging within him. Is this a picture of the Christian life, or do these verses show us Paul's life before his conversion? Today, R.C. Sproul speaks on our struggle with sin.
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| 0:00.0 | Reformation is needed in almost every day. |
| 0:04.0 | If Paul, within years of founding the Corinthian congregation, |
| 0:09.0 | needs to see them reformed, we can't be surprised that churches need reforming regularly in history of the church. |
| 0:15.0 | Sometimes that reform is more in the nature of a revitalization, |
| 0:20.0 | but I think people have, especially in America, been too content to be satisfied with entertainment and with shallowness. |
| 0:27.0 | And we need a seriousness about God, about Christ, and about His Word, |
| 0:32.0 | and I think to be drawn again to a passionate interest in the Word is going to take a major reformation of the church today. |
| 0:40.0 | My hope is that this series will serve the church by causing people to reflect on what the church ought to be according to the Word of God. |
| 0:49.0 | The necessity of reforming the church, a teaching series with W. Robert Godfrey. |
| 0:54.0 | Visit liganyear.org slash teaching series to learn more. |
| 1:00.0 | If you say to me, RC, do you want to sin? |
| 1:03.0 | Well, I would say, no, of course not. I can't wait to be free from sin. I can't wait to be in heaven to be glorified and never worry about sin again. |
| 1:11.0 | Well, they say, RC, if you don't want to sin, why do you sin? |
| 1:14.0 | Say, well, because I want to. That's the problem. See, I have mixed desires. |
| 1:21.0 | When do you turn for comfort as you battle with sin and sometimes fail in your fight against it? |
| 1:34.0 | Maybe you turn to the Apostle Paul's words in Romans 7, where he says he does not do what he wants. Instead, he does the very thing that he hates. |
| 1:43.0 | But was Paul describing his life as a Christian or his life before he was converted? |
| 1:49.0 | Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us for today's edition of Renewing Your Mind. |
| 1:54.0 | How we understand Romans 7 directly impacts how you and I view the Christian life. |
| 1:59.0 | And so even though these verses have been debated by Christians, it's vital that we understand them rightly and biblically. |
| 2:06.0 | Today, RC's Probal Walk is through Romans 7 as he considers this hard saying from the Apostle Paul. |
| 2:13.0 | As we continue our study of the hard saying from the Bible, we turn our attention today to a very difficult passage in the Book of Romans. |
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