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Paul Describes Himself - Now I, Paul, urge you by the gentleness and graciousness of Christ—I who am meek [so they say] when with you face to face, but bold [outspoken and fearless] toward you when ...
3 We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do. 4 We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. 5 We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God.
Jun 27, 2024 · So strong is Paul’s desire to live godly and so frustrated is he that his flesh wars against his spirit that he finally cries out in desperation, “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?” Of course, the answer is Jesus Christ our Lord (verse 25).
Nov 12, 2015 · Wesleyan and “Victorious Life” teachers say that it’s Paul describing himself as a Christian fighting the power of sin in his own strength, because that fits their template of an additional “higher life” step that chapter 8 allegedly goes on to describe.
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When I say that an unregenerate Paul would not say, “I delight in the law of God, in my inner being” (Romans 7:22), I don’t mean that a first-century Jew couldn’t say that. I mean that the term “inner being” (esō anthrōpon) is Paul’s way of saying, “I don’t mean this hypocritically, or superficially, or Pharisaically. I mean that I myself really do...
When I say that Romans 7:14–25 describes Paul’s Christian experience, I don’t mean his steady-state experience. I mean that this sort of defeat happens to Paul. For example, when he says, “If I do what I do not want, . . . it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me” (Romans 7:16–17), he is referring to an occasion in life, not the t...
One of my arguments for the Christian experience view is that Paul follows his exultation of triumph in verse 25 with a strong inference (ara oun) that returns us to the conflict and “war” of verse 23. The Christian experience view makes good sense of this sequence. But I have not seen a compelling answer to this argument. Paul cries out, “Wretched...
But Paul is at pains to make clear in Romans 7:25 that the difference does not put the warfare behind us. Our death in Christ “to that which held us captive” and our “serving in the new way of the Spirit” (Romans 7:6) does not mean we never stumble back into experience of captivity. In fact, the “therefore” of Romans 7:25explains that the victory d...
Romans 1:1-7. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God,… An autobiography, the story of our own life, is a dangerous thing for a man to write. We are partisan judges of our own character. We conceal our own faults and exaggerate our own virtues. An autobiography, too, is often very dull and very dry.
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Apr 19, 2024 · He converted to Christianity, changed his name to Paul, and became the most important missionary for the Christian church ever. In this article, I will relay the story of Paul in the Bible from his early years, to his conversion, to his subsequent missionary journeys.
