I Can't Change!

Verse 14,

“For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.”

Now, this is—only Paul ever had this problem, I’m sure you’ll agree.

“For what I am doing, I do not understand.”

“For what I will to do, that I do not practice.”

“But what I hate, that I do.”

How many of you’d be honest enough to say, I know from experience what that means? Would you put your hand up and say that’s true? Certainly true in my life.

Right? And, and Paul says, “I don’t understand it. Here I am, I’m really wanting to do the right thing.”

I can remember months when I struggled with this problem. I didn’t understand why these things enslaved me.

In the end, I decided to be a good slave. That’s all. I decided I won’t fight. I’ll just give way.

But God, in His mercy, decreed otherwise.