The Conflict Between the Old and New Natures-
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Concerning the conflict continually going on between the old and new natures in the believer, St. Paul says:
“For
the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh:
and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the
things that ye would” (Galatians 5:17).
Regarding this conflict in his own personal experience, he writes:
“For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
“For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
“But
I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind,
and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members”
(Romans 7:19,22,23).
It
has been taught by some that we need not experience this continual
strife between the old nature and the new. They say: “Get out of the 7th
of Romans into the 8th.”
We
would remind such that the Apostle Paul wrote Romans 7 and Romans 8 at
the same sitting; that in the original language the letter goes right on
without interruption — without even a chapter division.
Thus
the same apostle who exclaims: “There is therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1) refers in the same
letter, only a few sentences before, and in the present tense, to “the
law of sin which is in my members,” and freely acknowledges the present
operation of that law in his members, as we have seen above.
How
then shall we get out of the 7th of Romans into the 8th? Paul
experienced both at the same time, and so do we, for while we are free
from the condemnation of sin, sin itself nevertheless continues to work
within us, and we must constantly “mortify the deeds of the body”
(Romans 8:13)
Paul’s Gospel (Click)
by William R. Newell
Les Feldick Ministries
30706 W. Lona Valley Rd.
Kinta, OK 74552
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