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Daily Bread

Jesus Christ is Our Rescuer

Date: Aug. 9, 2019

Passage

Romans 7:14-25 (ESV)

14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

Daily Bread

Key Verse: 7:25

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

1. The desire to do good (14-20

God's law is spiritual and good. But we are unspiritual and prone to sin, that is, in our sinful natures. We have the desire to do good, but we cannot carry it out, at least not perfectly, due to sin living in us. This calls for a battle against sin and a surrender to Christ.

2. What a wretched sinner I am! (21-25)

When I want to do good, evil is right there. My inner being delights in God's law, but sin keeps enslaving and imprisoning me. Who can save a wretch like me? Amazing grace, how sweet the sound-Jesus Christ is our Rescuer! He saved us from our sin to make us right with God, and he continues to save us when we cry out to him. Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Deliverer!

Prayer: Prayer: Lord Jesus, I do not do the good I know I should do. Rather, I fall into sin when I depend on my own effort or goodness or strength. Rescue me from all my sins of pride and rebellion.

One Word: Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ!

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