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Carl Westerlund :: Romans 7:21-24 - The War of the Laws

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Romans in Outline No. 73

1.1  THE PRINCIPLE (Law #1): EVIL EXISTS WITHIN

Romans 7:21

1.2  EXPOSITION OF THE PRINCIPLE

Romans 7:22-23

2.1  The positive side: Delighting in God’s Law (Law #2)

Romans 7:22

3.1  REVIEW OF THE LAW OF GOD

4.1  The Law is holy, just, good (intrinsically — agathos)

Romans 7:12

4.2  We know that the Law is spiritual

Romans 7:14

4.3  I consent unto the law that it is good (beautiful — kalos)

Romans 7:16

4.4  Now: “I delight in it”

Romans 7:22

3.2  THE PLACE OF DELIGHTING: THE INWARD MAN

4.1  Contrast with the outer man

2 Corinthians 4:16

4.2  “The hidden man of the heart”

1 Peter 3:4

4.3  The effect of delighting in the law

Psalm 1

2.2  The negative side: being defeated by sin

Romans 7:23

3.1  IT IS IN HIS MEMBERS

Romans 7:23a

3.2  IT WARS AGAINST THE LAW OF THE MIND (Law #3)

Romans 7:23b

4.1  War (Greek: Antistrateuome — noun–derivative: strategy) = “to render service in a military campaign”

4.2  The battle of the mind

The depraved mind

Romans 1:28

The corrupt mind

1 Timothy 6:3

The fleshly mind

Colossians 2:18

The transformed mind

Romans 12:2

The mind controlled by the Spirit

Romans 8:6

The mind of Christ

1 Corinthians 2:16

3.3  BRINGS HIM INTO CAPTIVITY TO THE LAW OF SIN (Law of sin)

(Greek: aixmalotidzonta from spear)

2 Corinthians 10:3-5

1.3  THE RESPONSE TO THE CONCLUSION

Romans 7:7:24

2.1  The agonizing cry

2.2  The pleading question

Romans 7:21-24

21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 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. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? (NKJV)

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