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I've given you just a little bit of space. I'm not even sure you're interested in this portion of

it, but I want to tell you a couple of reasons why there are theologians that think this has got

to be the unregistered man. This has got to be a lost man. This has got to be Paul looking back

and talking from his past before he was saved. One reason, and again, I don't have in your note,

so just listen up. If you want to jot any part of it down, you can do that on the back or in any

space you've got in the margin. Paul seems to be talking about a person under the power of sin,

and he has gone to tremendous lengths in Romans chapter 6. First portions in Romans chapter 7,

and man is he going to hit it in Romans chapter 8 to tell us we as people who have the living

Christ inside of us are not under the power of sin. We've been freed from that, so that's a huge

issue. That's a huge issue here. All right, also the tone of this sounds like a man that does not

have the aid of the Holy Spirit. That's a little troubling. Another, I want you to listen to this

quote from the NICNT. It says this, while Paul makes clear that believers will continue to struggle

with sin, what is depicted in 7, 14 through 25 is not just a struggle with sin, but a defeat by sin.

This part I really struggle with before I just determined which direction I was going to go because

this bothers me too. This is a more negative view of the Christian life than can be accommodated

within Paul's theology. In other words, woo, this stands out by itself in this kind of tone

among his writings. Now, not that a believer can struggle with sin, we're going to see that in a

moment, but this kind of, I mean, this is like that's some stuff. You understand what I'm saying?

I mean, that's heavy. That's heavy. And then lastly, the segment struggles with the need to obey

the mosaic law, yet Paul has already told believers we're not even under that law. So there are

many theologians smart, smart men and through the ages that have debated and said this has got

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