Prairie View Christian Church Norway, Iowa PastorTeacher Bill Wenstrom www'prairieviewchristian'org

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Prairie View Christian ChurchNorway,
IowaPastor-Teacher Bill Wenstromwww.prairievie
wchristian.org
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Wednesday October 8, 2008Romans Romans
725b-Pauls Conclusion He Serves The Law
Through His New Nature But Sin Through His
FleshLesson 238
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Please turn in your Bibles to Romans 714.
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Last evening we studied Romans 725a and in this
passage Paul expressed his thanks to the Father
for his deliverance from the power of his sin
nature through the Person and Work of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
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This evening we will complete our study of Romans
chapter seven by noting Romans 726b and in this
passage, Paul presents his conclusion by stating
that he serves the Law through his new nature but
the sin nature through his flesh.
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Romans 714-25, 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.
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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 am I the one doing it,
but sin which dwells in me.
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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.
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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 then the principle that evil
is present in me, the one who wants to do good.
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For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the
inner man but I see a different law in 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.
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Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from
the body of this death?
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Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am
serving the law of God, but on the other, with my
flesh the law of sin.
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So then is composed of the inferential
particle ara (ara) (ar-ah), so and the
transitional or resumptive use of the
post-positive conjunction oun (ou_at_n) (oon),
then.
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In Romans 725b, the particle ara is
inferential suggesting that the statement to
follow is a conclusion or inference from Pauls
preceding statements in Romans 714-24 since his
statement in Romans 725b summarizes his
statements in Romans 714-25a.
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In Romans 725b, the conjunction oun, which
resumes Pauls previous train of thought in
Romans 714-24 after his parenthetical remark in
Romans 725a.
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Oun is introducing a summarization of this remark
that is the result of an inference.
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The particle ara closes the parenthetical remark
in Romans 725a.
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Together, ara oun emphasize the logical
connection between Pauls statements in Romans
714-24 with his statement to follow in Romans
725b.
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Romans 725, Thanks be to God through Jesus
Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I
myself with my mind am serving the law of God,
but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.
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On the one hand is the conjunction men (me\n)
(men), which is employed with the conjunction de
(deV) (deh), but on the other hand in a
correlative sense.
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Together, they demonstrate the contrast between
Paul as a servant of Gods Law by means of the
mind of his new Christ nature with that of his
being servant of his Adamic sin nature by means
of his flesh.
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My mind is the noun nous (nou) (noose), which
refers to the spiritual desires, purposes and
judgments of the regenerate heart or in other
words, the new Christ nature.
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The inner man in Romans 722 is directly
related to the expression to nomo tou noos mou,
the propensity of my mind in Romans 723 and
this expression in Romans 725b the mind
originates with the inner man.
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At the moment a sinner is declared justified
by God through faith in Jesus Christ as their
Savior, the Holy Spirit creates a human spirit
for the imputation of eternal life by God the
Father, which makes the believer a new spiritual
species meaning he now possesses the divine
nature.
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Titus 35, He saved us, not on the basis of
deeds (human works) which we have done in (human
power) righteousness, but according to His mercy,
by the washing of regeneration and renewing by
the Holy Spirit.
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This human spirit with eternal life imputed to
it composes the believers new nature, i.e. the
new self and this new nature is the nature of
Christ.
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This act of regeneration makes the believer a new
spiritual species, which is the nature of Christ
that can never sin and that is described in
Scripture by many phrases such as the new self,
new man, new creation.
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2 Peter 14, For by these He has granted to us
His precious and magnificent promises, so that by
them you may become partakers of the divine
nature, having escaped the corruption that is in
the world by lust.
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We are commanded to put on the new Christ
nature in order to practice the righteousness of
God, which manifests itself in loving one another
as Christ loved.
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Ephesians 424, and put on the new self, which
in the likeness of God has been created in
righteousness and holiness of the truth.
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The inner man, the new Christ nature is
strengthened with power through the Spirit when
the believer obeys the voice of the Spirit, which
is heard through the communication of the Word of
God.
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Ephesians 316, that He would grant you,
according to the riches of His glory, to be
strengthened with power through His Spirit in the
inner man.
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In Ephesians 4 and Colossians 3, the apostle
Paul uses the expression old man to refer to
the old Adamic sin nature and the expression new
man to refer to the new Christ nature.
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Therefore, in Romans 723, the noun nous, mind
is the mind of new Christ nature.
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The word functions as a dative instrumental of
means indicating that Paul serves the Law of God
by means of his mind, i.e. his new Christ
nature.
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Romans 725, Thanks be to God through Jesus
Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I
myself with my mind am serving the law of God,
but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.
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Am serving is the verb douleuo (douleuvw)
(dool-yoo-o), which refers to Pauls status or
condition or position of being a servant of the
Law of God, which is accomplished by means of the
new nature.
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The law of God refers to the Mosaic Law.
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With my flesh is the noun sarx (savrc) (sarx),
which refers to the physical body of the apostle
Paul, which is where his sin nature is located.
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The word functions as a dative instrumental of
means indicating that Paul serves his sin nature
by means of his flesh, i.e. his physical body,
which is corrupted by the sin nature.
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The law of sin is composed of the noun nomos
(novmo) (nom-os), the law and the noun
hamartia (a(martiva) (ham-ar-tee-ah), sin.
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These two words appeared together in Romans 723.
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In this passage, the noun nomos means,
propensity and the noun hamartia refers to the
sin nature.
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Together, they referred to the propensity of the
sin nature to disobey the Law of God.
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Romans 723, However, I habitually recognize a
different kind of propensity in my members as
perpetually waging war against the propensity
originating from my mind and in addition
perpetually making me a prisoner of war with
respect to the propensity originating from the
sin nature, which does perpetually exist in my
members.
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This is how they are used in Romans 725.
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