01/30/26 DON'T GET ROBBED

01/30/26 DON'T GET ROBBED

There are people (who call themselves Christian) who will tell you that you cannot quit sinning, that you cannot obey God's commands, that God's saving grace cannot make you holy, pure, righteous, or conform you to the image of Jesus.

They probably also tell you that Romans 7 is "PROOF" that Christians cannot be delivered from the Old Man, the Carnal Mind, the Double Mind, the Law of Sin and Death (also referred to as the Sinful Nature.) However, Romans 7 actually says that God does deliver faithful believers from the Adamic nature. Then Romans 8 gives details on this deliverance from "all sin."

Don't think that such a misrepresentation of God's salvation is unimportant. Faith is key to salvation. Lack of faith is key to lostness. ("Without faith it is impossible to please God", and, "He that knows to do good, but does not do it, to him it is sin."

Knowing that God's salvation actually purifies the heart of the faithful Christian is key to victorious living and spiritual productivity. Knowing the truth sets us free.

I used the following method when I read and when I study a passage of Scripture.

As you read a passage, insert a mental marker (*) next to comments that declare (indicate victorious Christian living over sin in this present evil age. This is how I would set markers for Romans 8.

Romans 8:1-14
1 There is therefore now no condemnation (*) to them which are in Christ Jesus (*), who walk not after the flesh (*), but after the Spirit (*).
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death (*).
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us (*), who walk not after the flesh (*), but after the Spirit (*).
5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh (*); but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit (*).
6 For to be carnally minded is death (*); but to be spiritually minded is life and peace (*).
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God (*): for it is not subject to the law of God *
(*), neither indeed can be (*).
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God (*).
9 But ye are not in the flesh (*), but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you (*). Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 And if Christ be in you (*), the body is dead because of sin (*); but the Spirit is life because of righteousness (*).
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you (*).
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh (*), to live after the flesh (*).
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die (*): but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body (*), ye shall live (*).
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God (*), they are the sons of God (*).

Now, if these verses mean what they say, then Romans 7 cannot mean what sinning religions says it means. In fact, Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit gave us a very clear insight into the problem of inherent sin and then gave us the solution to the problems of the sinful nature in 7:24-25, which is addressed in much more detail in Romans 8.