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Now that we have come to know Jesus Christ personally we must live differently (2 Cor. 5:17). God is at work in us, “both to will and to work for His good pleasure,” so we must allow Him the freedom to work within us.
In Romans chapter seven the apostle Paul is sharing with us his own experience as a mature Christian. I know who the man in Romans seven is; I deal with him every day! It is the Christian’s continuing conflict with sin which he shares, and he reminds us that there is no victory in our struggles apart from the indwelling work of the Holy Spirit. The mature Christian is always in Romans 7, and apart from the daily work of the Holy Spirit in the believer he cannot live the Christian life (Rom. 8).
Victory comes only as we make ourselves available to the Holy Spirit. There is the continuing presence of sin in us through our bodies and we will struggle with it all the days of our life on this earth. We cannot win the battle with sin in our own strength. The mature Christian believer continually struggles against indwelling sin, and he will do so until he is done with this present life.
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