Title: The inner person's troubles
2011.2.27 Sunday morning worship service
Bible: Romans 7:22-25
Title: The troubles of the inner person
Romans 7:22-25 ‘22. I delight in the law of God in my inner being, 23. I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my heart, and taking me captive by the law of sin that is in my members, 24. O wretched man I am this death Who will deliver me from the body of God, 25. I will give thanks to God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore with my mind I myself serve the law of God, and with the flesh the law of sin.' -Amen.
The apostle Paul came from a traditional Jewish family, and was a lawyer who was fluent in the law.
He met the Lord Jesus and was transformed and called to be an apostle for the Gentiles.
A mysterious person who wrote half of the New Testament, filled with the Holy Spirit, performed miracles, and ascended to the third floor. As an apostle of great power, honestly, why was Paul worried about sin? I would like to give you a message titled <The Anxiety of the Inner Person>.
1. Because there is an inner man, sin is troubled
An unregenerate soul does not have a sensitive reaction to sin and does not seriously consider it, regardless of whether it is an unbeliever or a church member. You have to be spiritually alive to worry.
Text Romans 7:22-23 ‘22. I delight in the law of God in my inner man, 23. Another law in my members is in war against the law of my heart...'
Some commentators misinterpret it as a philosophical argument for the self outside of Christ. When Paul speaks of the inner man, he refers to the new self in Christ. It is the inner person of the regenerated soul, the self.
Worrying about sin is not something that anyone can do, only those who have confirmed the existence of a truly born-again inner man. A person who has truly met God cannot help but sin and worry. Conscience and emotions are supposed to happen that way.
2. I worry when I see my sins
After being reborn, he leaves the church every once in a while, but his conscience has become dull due to sin or repeated sins, so he can become a member who has no worries about sin. This is the most dangerous condition.
What makes Paul a famous apostle in the text is that he sees sin take hold of him in order to destroy him.
Romans 7:23-24 “I see another law in my members wrestling with the law of my heart, and holding me captive by the law of sin that is in my members, 24. O wretched man I am...”
The word to see is blevpw, which means to stare and perceive.
The problem with the church today is that they are immersed in some mystical experience rather than worrying about the sin that is challenging the regenerated saints and are unable to listen to the voice of their conscience.
3. Jesus solves the real troubles of the inner man
As a saint who truly knows the born-again self, he has a conscience that properly contemplates sin, and he is a wretched man.” If you become like Paul, who falls in pain and falls, as Paul said in the text Romans 7:25, ‘I will thank God through our Lord Jesus Christ. .' It gives you reason to be grateful.
In a more certain and spiritual sense, 8:1-2 shows the victory of faith that results in the liberation of the soul in the Holy Spirit. It is whether you believe in the blood of atonement in Jesus and receive the healing of your soul under the influence of the Holy Spirit, so that you feel truly liberated.
When many people hear the Bible, they mistakenly think that God is just saving and blessing them. That's why they say you should rejoice even when you have no faith in your conscience, so with a conscience that you haven't experienced, you only sing songs and dance and riot.
He went on to say that he hid his conscience and said some mystical words, that he had received a tongue, that a revelation had come, that he had heard a voice, and that some even showed the forgiveness of sins in a dream. will.
Do you have an inner person that the world does not know? Then, is it not normal to worry about sin in this sinful age? But don't you have any sensations? If so, you are in a serious condition. If you are physically ill, would you be hospitalized? These days, it is the last days and the level of living by sinning is similar to other people, but they do not die. So, take comfort and just live with it.
If the pastor does not repent, with what spirit do the saints repent? So, do the lay people not have to repent? On the day of judgment, other people didn't repent, so I didn't do it, so did God reduce my sins? Your sins require you to repent.
These days, what is intercession and what is called, who is the intercessor? Do people intercede? That's what Catholicism is all about. Only Jesus is the mediator. How will my sins change if someone prays for me?
I pray that you and I will be freed from the true Atonement and the fullness of the Holy Spirit as we follow the Apostle Paul's example and worry about the inner person.