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NASB | Romans 7:19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 7:19 For the good that I want to do, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. |
Subject: Paul's evil practices Pre or PostJesus |
Bible Note: Hi Doc, 26 years ago God called me to Himself. I as excited and happy as a person could be. I actually thought that my days of sinning were behind me. I was now a Saint! Oh how grand it was for a season. It did'nt last. Before I knew it sin had regained a foothold in life once again. Of course now I had a different reaction to sin than before I knew Christ. I hated my loving of it! No matter how I tried I could not free myself from it's hold. Now don't get me wrong Doc... I was not the man I was, but neither was I than man I had hoped to be either. For years I struggled to be more like the people in the pentacostal church I attended. They appeard to me to be living the victorious life, they had mountain moving faith. We even had a speaker who proclaimed that she had'nt sinned in months. To make a long story short, scandal broke out and boy was it messy...I packed up and stayed shy of church period. I thought I was the lousy sinner! I could'nt hold a candle to these folks. 10 years later, God graciously led me back and planted me in a church that (I have come to believe) proclaims the gospel and teaches sound doctrine. The doctrines of grace changed my life. I said all of that Doc to say this...I love you but ( in my not so humble opinion) you are making a big mistake by backing off on Romans 7. I say this because I am a Romans 7 christian. I identify with Paul the sinner. To follow a diffent path one may find themselves actually believing that they may have something to add to the work of Christ, in my view a disastrous course indeed! I'm nowhere near the scholar you are Doc...but even a blind pig finds a turnip once in awhile. John |