For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

 Romans 7:14-25

We know that the law is spiritual, but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.  For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

Paul takes a personal example. He describes his own situation as a Jew, knowing the law and finding himself condemned by it, to the point of despair. This is how it was before he gound deliverance from the grip of sin. He knew what was good and right, yet he found himself unable to dot it. Sin held him prisoner. Who could effect his escape? 'Who but God"... through Jesus Christ our Lord'

Why?

Sinful nature in me, what a wretched man I am: For the weak of our body, we can't do what I want to good, but there is inner law urge me to do the evil.

Even we know the law is good, told me what should I do, but we can't do the right and do evil. Only through Jesus Chris our Lord, we can escape this bondage.

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兩個知道：

V14我們原曉得律法是屬乎靈的，但我是屬乎肉體的，是已經賣給罪了。

V18我也知道在我裡頭，就是我肉體之中，沒有良善

我們知道不對的一直在做，人性是善還是惡。保羅指出了人知道卻行不出來。有惻隱之心卻沒有用，是否能夠行出來是問題。

通常都是惡贏了，愈想靠自己，靠自己，肉體的力量愈強大，把我們擄去。如立志要好好讀經，好好愛人，好好……。離了主我們沒有能力做……，似乎的是傳福音，其實是指生命成長的果子。靠主耶穌才能勝過，脫離罪的捆綁。

靠我們自己的力量遵行神的經濟犯話語是不能的。讓我們不斷學習枝子連在葡萄樹上才能結果子。

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How?

Keep following the word of the Lord and keep God's word in my mind. Pray to the Lord gives me a clean heart and righteous spirit.