Through Jesus Christ Our Lord Romans 7:25

Paul the apostle told the people in Rome, “I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 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”, and he emphatically exclaimed, “O wretched man that I am!” as he asked, “who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” in chapter seven and verse twenty-five of Romans, Paul provided the answer to his readers, “through Jesus Christ our Lord” where we read:

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God;

but with the flesh the law of sin.

The verse begins, “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Paul began with the words, “I thank God” which means “Paul was grateful and appreciative” to “the Godhead bodily and trinity which is comprised of God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit” “through Jesus” or “by way and means” of “Jesus” whose name means “Jehovah is Salvation” and is “the Son of God, the Savior of mankind and God incarnate” “Christ” which refers to “the anointed One, the Messiah and the Son of God” “our Lord” or “Paul, his companions and his readers' he to whom a person belongs about which he has power of deciding; master and the title given to God the Messiah”. Paul was “grateful” to “God” by means of “Jesus” who was able to “deliver” him from his “body of death”.

The verse goes on to say, “So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.” Paul continued with the words, “so then” which means “therefore and wherefore” “with the mind or “with the faculties of perceiving, understanding, feeling, judging and determining” “I myself serve” which refers to “Paul himself truly, certainly, surely and indeed was a slave and did service to, yielded to and obeyed” “the law” or “the rule producing a state approved” “of God” which refers to “the Godhead bodily and trinity which is comprised of God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit”; “but” which is a disassociation conjunction that means what is about to be written takes precedence over what was just stated “with the flesh” or “with the human nature and earthly nature of man apart from divine influence, and therefore prone to sin and opposed to God” “the law” or “the rule” “of sin” which refers to “missing the mark, erring and being mistaken”. Paul recognized with his “intellect, feelings and choice” he was a “servant” to “God's law”, however, his “human nature” was prone to serve the “rule of missing the mark and erring”.

When we meditate upon these words of Paul, we see how grateful he was to God through His Son Jesus Christ that he could be “rescued” from his “body of death”. This “body of death” was much like those who murdered in those days and were sentenced to “carry the dead body” of the person they murdered for weeks. We imagine what a horror that would be, and the “deliverance” from such a sentence would be more than gladly received. In much the same way, Jesus Christ came to die for the “sin” of every person in the world that He might “deliver” them from the sentence of “death by sin”, and now every person who “believes and trusts” in Him as their “Savior and Lord” shall not only be “rescued” from their “sinful fleshly nature”, they are also promised “everlasting life” with Him.

Next time we begin a new chapter and see Paul tell his readers, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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