Christian Conflict

[stephen]

"When I want to do right, evil is close ar hand" Romans 7:21

This is the conflict of Christian experience: that the good I want I do not do, and the evil which I hate I do. Behind such are two laws in conflict. My mind, what I want to do, and my flesh the old nature. The conflict is real and unremitting. It leads us repeatedly to utter two apparently contradictory cries. "Wretched man that I am who will deliver me?" Romans 7: 24 and "Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord". v 25.

The first is a cry of despair, and the second is a cry of triumph. Both of them are the outburst's of a mature believer. I may cry them every day, certainly every week. "Oh wretched man that I am who will deliver me?" Because as a Christian I bemoan this inner corruption of my nature and I long for deliverance. Do you also not long to be rid of this flesh, to be rid of indwelling sin and corruption, as a Christian?

Then this is your cry too "O miserable creature, so prone to wander, who will deliver me? But then you will add the cry in triumph "Thanks be to God!" because you know that Jesus is the one and only Deliverer.
He is the One who can give you deliverance now, through the Holy Spirit, and He is the One who on that resurrection day, will give us a new body free from fleshly wanderings.

Personally I do not believe that we can be out of one and into the other in this life, out of Romans 7 and into Romans 8, out of despair into victory. We will always be crying to Him for deliverance, and we will always be exulting in our mighty deliverer. Hallelujah

Amen Amen Amen

 

[Laudite]

Amen (but in observance of Lent, no H-------h)

 

[stephen]

The great Apostle said

"But I keep under my body and bring it into subjection...............lest I myself become a castaway"

The word 'keep' indicates, to strike one under the eye, to beat black and blue.

The word 'weary' in Luke 18:5 is the same word.

Figuratively speaking Paul was beating his body black and blue to bring it into subjection, lest he should be lost, to the satisfaction of natural passion

He considered his body an enemy with which he must contend in mortal combat to keep it under control by self denial, abstinence and mortification.

He acted to keep the body as a slave to the soul, not permitting the soul to be the slave of the body. He did this constantly.......


As I see it. We have to do the same.


Any who cannot cry "O wretched man that I am" neither know the joy of crying "thanks be to God for giving us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ"

 

[abigya]

well expressed , its a battle field we under go until the day of Christ.


"But I keep under my body and bring it into subjection...............lest I myself become a castaway"

Yes Praise God ! we will always be exulting in our mighty deliverer. Hallelujah


Just a word in my heart while reading your post

2 peter 1:3
By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence.

Many blessings

abigya

 

[Mike Scott]

Hi Stephen

Oh PTL in my weakness He is made strong.

Lord do I ever have weaknesses.

I have looked at the Psalms and other scriptures that speak of King Davids life and talk about going through the extremes. I make me feel like I need to shut my mouth and start thanking Him about the few problems I have.

When I read through your thread the pain is still raw of many conflicts which I know I failed miserably in but today is another day with Him and heaven help us in the ways our enemy will fling those failures at us and it will be like dung hanging from our face, smelly and not pretty but hey!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is a new day in the Lord let us rejoice and be glad in it!!!!!!

I know easier said than done but lets try!!!!!!!!

Take care
Mike
aka grizzly for Christ.

 

[stephen]

When I read through your thread the pain is still raw of many conflicts which I know I failed miserably in but today is another day with Him and heaven help us in the ways our enemy will fling those failures at us and it will be like dung hanging from our face, smelly and not pretty but hey!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is a new day in the Lord let us rejoice and be glad in it!!!!!!

Glad of your response Mike, and for this reason.

So many Christian folks today appear to be beyond the experience of "fighting the good fight of Faith" the "laying hold of eternal life" which scripture talks about.

They have arrived....and now live in victory. Amen Amen Wonderful and I cannot argue.

Victory, victory blessed blood bought victory.
Victory, victory, victory all the time.
As Jehovah liveth strength divine he giveth,
Unto those who know him victory all the time.

I believe it. Amen. But such victory can only be known as we "resist the devil, and he flee'eth from us"