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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to my Bible study with doctor Baruch Gorman,
a ministry of Love Israel dot org. In this episode,
Baruk will teach the Bible verse by verse, translating directly
from the original languages and sharing the Jewish context of
scripture so you can grow deeper in your knowledge of
God's Word. After listening, please visit us at Love Israel

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dot org, where you can sign up for our newsletter
and find more great resources. Now enjoy today's message from
doctor Baruch.

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Do you understand yourself before God? We need to have
a proper a spiritual understanding of who we are, and
we need to understand our spiritual situation before coming to
faith in that Gospel message, prior to becoming a new
creation in Messiah, and after receiving the truth of God,

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taking hold by faith of that gospel, being that new
creation in Messiah, we need to understand who we are
spiritually before God and a great assistance in answering those questions.
Is this what God did to the Jewish people in Egypt?

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And I'm speaking about how He brought them out of slavery,
the bondage of slavery, the order that took place, and
what I'm referring to. Is this you see, First, God
redeemed the people. We see that pattern in the Book
of Exodus. They were redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.

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They came out of bondage in Egypt. And it was
only after being redeemed by that blood then and only
then did God give them his instructions, his commandments, his law.
And we see a principle, a pattern, and that is
first redemption and then only after being redeemed can a

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person have the opportunity to obey God. Redemption first, and
redemption leads to obedience. So let me ask you another question,
and that is this, do you want to obey God
to take his word and apply it to your life

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and bear much fruit? If you have been saved by
God's grace, you have received the Gospel, you have taken
hold by faith of the blood of Messiah, to become
that new creation, to be fully and eternally redeemed, such
a person will want to serve God and obey his word. Well,

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take out your Bible and look with me to the
Book of Romans and chapter seven. The Book of Romans
and chapter seven. Now the last verse that we looked
at last week was very fourteen, and there Paul tells
us something. He's writing being fully inspired by the Holy Spirit.

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His words.

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In fact, all the words of Scripture are perfectly written
down by means of the Holy Spirit.

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The Word of God, the Bible is truth.

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We can trust it. And what the Word of God
says is this. The Law is spiritual. Now we need
to hear that. That's what Scripture says, Roman seven, verse fourteen.
The Law is spiritual, spiritually given to us from God

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as his truth.

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What's the problem. The problem is not the law, Paul says.

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The law is holy, it is righteous, and it is good.

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So what's the problem you and me?

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Because we are by nature, we were conceived in sin
and we have that sinful nature. Now remember that we
have a sinful nature, and that sinful nature causes us
to rebel against the things of God. And it's remembering

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this truth. First comes redemption, then God's instructions. We are
inherently sinful by nature, and we have that rebellious spirit.
Remember that as we begin our first verse for our
study today from Romans chapter seven and verse fifteen, Notice

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what Paul is writing. Now to understand this, we need
to remember he's writing about his previous condition before coming
to faith. He's reminding us of what we were prior
to receiving God's grace. Look at verse fifteen.

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We read for what I work out?

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Now, this verb means to work and to produce something.
It speaks about working and that there's an outcome. There's
a result, So we'll just translate it to work out
or to do verse fifteen.

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For what I do, he says I do not know.

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Now there's an inconsistency with Paul here because he says
what I do, I do not know. There's something that
is not right. This is what he's revealing to us,
and what is that? Well, he says, for what I
do not want.

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This I practice.

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So here's the thing that doesn't go well together. Paul says,
what I want to do, I don't do this. I
practice something else. So that there's a disconnect between what
Paul wants to do and what in actuality he performs.

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So he says, for what I want to do, he
says this I do not practice. But what I hate
this I do. So what he intends to do, what
he wants to do, he doesn't do. He does something different,

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And what is that he says, what I hate this,
I do.

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So.

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There's an inability in Paul's life. And again we're talking
about him prior to receiving the truth, being redeemed, becoming
that new creation. He is writing about his history where
he was in conflict within because what he desired to

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do he could not carry it out. Now move on
to verse sixteen. He says, but if what I do
not want, this I do so, he says, If what
I want to do, he says, what I don't want

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to do.

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This I do.

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He says, I agree with the law that it's good.
So we're told something here. If you put it together,
this is what the scripture tells us. Paul wants to
do something. What is that he agrees that the law
of God is good? This is what he wants to do. Paul,

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even prior to coming to salvation, Paul, having known the
revelation of God, being a Jewish individual, being taught, having
studied much of his life the Law the commandments of God,
his desire was to do it. But when he examined himself,
he found that he was not doing it. This is

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this conflict, this is this tension within him. I agree
the law of God is good. The problem is I'm
not doing it. Look now to verse seventeen. He says,
but now it's no longer I who work this out,

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but that which dwells in me. And what is that,
he tells us sin, So it's not Paul doing it,
but rather it's the sin that's within him.

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Now he's leading us.

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Up to a right conclusion, and that is he needed
a change in his life. Why because sin was ruling
over him. He could desire to do good. He wanted
to do good. He agreed that the law of God
was good. This is the second time that he proclaimed this,

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that the law is good. And the implication is it's
the right thing to do. He wants to do the
right thing, but he's not able to do so. And
now he's revealed to us what the problem is, and
that is sin that dwells within him and within each

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human being. Paul's not unique, He's not experiencing some phenomena
that's just his. He's telling us what every human being encounters,
and that is that sin rules over our life, not
the desires that sem from the conscience stems from. When

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we read god instructions, we say, yes, this is good.

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I want to do that.

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The problem is, most of the time we do not
verse eighteen, For I know that does not dwell in me,
this meaning in my flesh. What doesn't dwell in his flesh?

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Good?

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Now, this is something that you need and I need
to realize that in our flesh good.

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Does not dwell. Why is that we just learn?

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Because sin dwells within us, and sin in our natural
state how we are born into this world, every human being,
jew and gentile makes no difference.

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Sin dwells in us.

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And therefore it is sin working its purposes out, and
that sin dominates our will, that it gets the upper
hand on us, and instead of living a life in
obedience to God, we obey sin. This is what he's saying,
and he's speaking about in his flesh, good does not dwell.

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Middle of verse eighteen, he says four to will in
order to will something.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
He says, this is within me.

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I have the capacity to desire something, to say this
is what I want. This is my will. But the
problem is, but he says, the working out of good,
It says in the Texas receptis some Bibles leave these
words out. He says, I do not find but The

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implication is this. He says, I can will that which
is proper. I have the capacity to desire what is right,
But he says, to do what is right? He says
this I do not find in my life. I don't
find myself consistent properly doing what is good, and what

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is good the law of God, following God's instructions, being
obedient to his word.

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So Paul desires that.

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This is the second or third time that he said that,
But he does not have the capacity. He can't find
the power in order to do what he desires to do.

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Verse nineteen. For not what I will and what is
he willing that I do good?

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He says, I do not find what I will, that
this is what I'm doing, that I'm doing good, But
what I do not want?

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What doesn't he want?

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Well, the next word is the word evil. So Paul says,
I want to do good, but what I find, what
I'm experiencing, what I'm carrying out, is evil. Now understand
what evil is. We hear that and we think something
just just intrinsically bad, wicked, But the word evil simply

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means that which is not God's will. So what Paul's
saying is this, I will that which is good. I
want to do good, But I find myself not doing
God's will, but living in conflict, living in rebelliousness, being
defiant to the will of God that which is good.

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And when we don't do God's will, we are practicing evil,
he says. At the end of verse nineteen. He says,
this I practice what evil he misses out on God's
will verse twenty. But if what I do not want
I do, he says, it's no longer I who's carrying

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it out. But once again, what's the culprit? What's the
problem in this? He says at the end of verse twenty,
But the sin that dwells in me. So this is
the second time that he's referred to the problem who
is dominating his life and who it is it is sin. Now,

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many people they don't want to acknowledge that humanity, by nature,
how we entered into this world.

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That way reveals that.

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We were conceived in sin, and we are born sinful.
That means we are in need of redemption. It's not
as though we came in perfectly fine spiritually and then
maybe something messed us up along the way. The word
of God doesn't say that. The Word of God says,

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we were conceived in sin, and we were born into
this world sinful beings. Now here's the foundation for this.
You go all the way back to Genesis chapter one.
When God created the world. He created it the scripture
says empty and void. That phrase in Hebrew tohuveevohu means

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literally not in a proper order. It means something that
is incorrect. Now, why would God create the world in
this need? Because it shows us that change we need
from the very beginning, our nature is we need to change.

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We are not born correctly. We need redemption. So the
world was born. And what brought about a change to
the word or to the world. It was the word
God spoke and the Spirit of God was present. It's
the Word and the Spirit that brought things into order

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for creation. And it was only because of the Word,
the Word of God and the Spirit of God. These
two brought a change where God looked at his creation
now and said, behold, everything is good, very good. And

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it's only when we apply the Spirit and his Word
to our life that we can live in a way
that God says that's very good. You only have access
to the spirit of God through faith and Messiah through
the Gospel. It is the spirit of God entering into
a believer. That is a testimony, the evidence that one

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has been redeemed. And remember redemption comes first. Remember the
children of Israel, they were redeemed.

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By the blood of the Lamb.

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And then God gave instructions. And therefore it's for the
spiritual one. Remember what we said at the end of
last week and at the beginning of today, that the
law is spiritual. You can't obey God until first you
are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. And this

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Lamb is Messiah. Sure it Jesus Christ. So let's go
back to our text. Look, if you would to verse
twenty at the end, it says, the problem is sin
that is dwelling in me. Verse twenty one. Now Paul
wants to make some conclusions. He says, I find, therefore

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the law and what law are you talking about? The
law that is within me that I want to do good?
He says, I find that there's a law that I desire.

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To do good. But he says, the.

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Evil lies or is present within me. So he goes
back to where we've already been, says there's a law.

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The law is I desire to do good.

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But there's a problem, and this is the third time
that he said it, there is evil.

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Now, notice what he says.

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The first two times he says sin dwells within me.
Now he gets very specific that sin produces evil.

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There is evil within me.

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In my natural state, how I was conceived and how
I entered into this world born a human being. I
have a problem with evil. Sin dominates every human being.
This is a law that he's referring to. Now, verse
twenty two. Verse twenty two tells us Paul's history, how

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he was brought up, what his thoughts were, and he says, four,
I delight.

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To the law of God.

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Now we would say I delight in, but in Greek
this word implies I delight with.

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Perhaps would be a better way to translate this.

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I delight with the law of God according to Notice
what he says, that inner man, that conscience, that that
part of a human being, that God's uniquely placed that
inner man. He says, I delight with the law of God. Now,

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verse twenty three, but there is another law in my members.
Now he's talking about his flesh. When he says his
members the members of his body. He's talking about his
carnal nature. He says, but I find another law in

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my members that war against very important language, that war
against the law of my mind. Now, he says that
enter man, that enter person within him, that's related to
his conscience that works in his mind.

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He says, there's a war going on.

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Between that cardinal, that fleshly, that sin that dwells within me,
and this inner man, this conscience that God has equipped
every human being with, that says I.

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Hear generally from God.

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It touches me when I encounter God's word, when God
says this should do and this you should not do.
That inner man agrees with God, wants to obey God,
but cannot carry it out.

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This is what Paul's saying.

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I want to do it, but this what I do
not want. This is what I produce, this is what
I carry out. Therefore, he says, there's there's that other
one that wars within me, wars against the law of
my mind. And not only has it worn, but it

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says and has taken me captive to the law of sin.
So Paul says, there's that evil sin that dwells within him.
Naturally and this wars against his desire to do good,
to obey God, and that sin has not just for Paul,

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but for all people. It has gotten the upper hand.
It has taken us captive. That's what Paul says, and
he uses a very very important term, being taken captive,
being in exile. In other words, he has taken captive
me to the law of sin. And he says, being

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this law of sin being in my member, meaning in
his body. Now look in verse twenty four, he says, here,
what a wretched man that I am. Now this is
where spirituality can begin. When someone is mature enough, based

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upon reading the will of God in his word, understanding
God's expectations. That is what God commands us to do,
and we realize, oh, what a wretched human.

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Being we are.

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We are defiant against God. We are rebellious.

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We choose sin.

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Even though we may say I want to do the
right thing, and maybe we do, we lose the war.

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The vast majority of time, we don't do good.

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This is not what we practice consistently, but we miss
out on the will of God. We are defiant human beings.
And therefore he says, what a wretched man I am?
And then we see the beauty of the law. See

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the law reveals I need change, I need help.

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Who is going to save me?

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Who's going to bring a change for me?

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I can't do it myself. And that's why it says.

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Who will deliver me from literally out of this body
of death? That's where we are, in our natural state,
left to ourselves, rejecting the gospel. We reside in a
body of death, and that death.

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Is going to visit us.

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And we're not just speaking about a physical death. He's
talking about a spiritual consequence. He's talking about eternal death,
which is being separated from God, cast out of God's
presence into a place of punishment where the wrath of God.

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One will experience it eternally. They will be weeping and
they will be gnashing their teeth because of the torment
that they're experiencing.

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So Paul gets it right. He says, who will rescue?

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Who will deliver me from this body of death? And
now we see what he determines. He has determined, going
back to that road in Damascus, he has determined to
receive the gospel to invite Messiah Shuah Jesus Christ into

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his life and through that there's a wonderful change. Look
at our last verse, verse twenty five. He says, I
give thanks to God. This is his current condition. He
writes this down. He says, I give thanks to God
through Messiah Yeshuah, our Lord, who's the savior who redeems us,

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who puts us in a position of victory.

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Wherewhy we can obey.

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God Messiah ya Shuah Jesus Christ. He says, I give
thanks to God through Messiah Yashul our Lord. Therefore he
tells us a principle. And this is how he concludes
this chapter, and it implies, now we have a choice

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to make. See, prior to coming to faith, we really
didn't have the power to do good. We were in bondage,
just like the children of Egypt were the children of
Israel and Egypt word to Pharaoh. They couldn't serve God.
They had to serve Pharaoh, and they displayed sin in

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their life. They get in Egypt in a worse and
worse position spiritually. It was only because of God's grace,
his loving kindness, his promise of a covenant that God
moved to redeem them. So he says, I give thanks

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to God through messaiyahshue our Lord. Therefore, I, he says,
with my mind, serve the law of God. With my mind,
I make that when I make that decision to obey
that inner man, that conscience which is now dominated by
who the spirit of God. He says, then I serve

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the law of God. But he says, with the flesh,
what happens the law of sin. So now we have
a choice. Only believers who have experienced redemption we have
the choice. We now through this the Spirit of God,
have the power the resource in order to say yes

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to God.

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When we listen to.

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That inner man, that that conscience which is now controlled
by the spirit of God, we will serve the law
of God.

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But when we listen to the flesh.

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We will serve the law of sin. That's what Paul's saying.
We have a choice to make, and only believers have
that ability to choose rightly.

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And my hope and my prayer is this.

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That you choose wisely, choose to obey the word of
God while close with that until next week. May God
bless you shalom from Israel.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
Thank you for joining us today from my Bible study
with doctor Baruke Gorman. We hope you enjoyed today's teaching
and feel encouraged in your walk with the Lord. Please
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