The scripture text for this morning sermon is taken from Romans chapter 7

verses 14 to 25.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of flesh sold into bondage to sin.

For what I am doing, I do not understand.

For I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the law,

confessing that the law is good.

So now, no longer... is good

no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh.

For the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.

For the good that I want, I do not do,

but I practice the very evil that I do not want.

But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the

one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. I find that the principle that evil is present in me, the

one who wants to do good, for I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man. But I see a different law on the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin, which is in my

members.

Wretched man that I am, who will set me free from the body of this death?

Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

So then on the one hand, I myself my mind am serving the law of God, but on the

other with my flesh the law of sin.

Let's pray together.

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