What sin is dwelling in you? – Part II
7 Therefore, what are we to say? That the Torah is sinful? Heaven forbid! Rather, the function of the Torah was that without it, I would not have known what sin is. For example, I would not have become conscious of what greed is if the Torah had not said, “Thou shalt not covet.”
8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of evil desires – for apart from Torah, sin is dead.
9 I was once alive outside the framework of Torah. But when the commandment really encountered me, sin sprang to life,
10 and I died. The commandment that was intended to bring me life was found to be bringing me death!
11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me; and through the commandment, sin killed me.
12 So the Torah is holy; that is, the commandment is holy, just and good.
13 Then did something good become for me the source of death? Heaven forbid! Rather, it was sin working death in me through something good, so that sin might be clearly exposed as sin, so that sin through the commandment might come to be experienced as sinful beyond measure.
14 For we know that the Torah is of the Spirit; but as for me, I am bound to the old nature, sold to sin as a slave.
15 I don’t understand my own behavior – I don’t do what I want to do; instead, I do the very thing I hate!
16 Now if I am doing what I don’t want to do, I am agreeing that the Torah is good.
17 But now it is no longer “the real me” doing it, but the sin housed inside me.
18 For I know that there is nothing good housed inside me – that is, inside my old nature. I can want what is good, but I can’t do it!
19 For I don’t do the good I want; instead, the evil that I don’t want is what I do!
20 But if I am doing what “the real me” doesn’t want, it is no longer “the real me” doing it but the sin housed inside me.
21 So I find it to be the rule, a kind of perverse “torah,” that although I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me!
22 For in my inner self I completely agree with God’s Torah;
23 but in my various parts, I see a different “torah,” one that battles with the Torah in my mind and makes me a prisoner of sin’s “torah,” which is operating in my various parts.
24 What a miserable creature I am! Who will rescue me from this body bound for death?
25 Thanks be to God [, he will]! – through Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord! To sum up: with my mind, I am a slave of God’s Torah; but with my old nature, I am a slave of sin’s “Torah.” – Romans 7:7-25 CJB
Today, I want you to know you are hurting yourself by allowing sin to dwell in you. How can sin and Christ dwell in you simultaneously? God forbid . . . it will never happen. I, like Paul, didn’t come to condemn you. I came to shake up your leadership senses and cause you to wake up to the fact that your asking, seeking, knocking, hoping, believing, and praying for the glory of God while sins has made its home in you is fruitless. “Well, no one is perfect”, you say. He says, “Be ye perfect for I am perfect.” He is the perfect One who leads, teaches, convicts, gently guides, and reproves in and by His word to be perfect. Be ye holy for I am holy. What sin is dwelling in you that you keep making excuses for and justifying by picking out certain scriptures? Release it today that you may go from the glory to the glory He has laid up for you, beloved.
The real you (hidden in Christ) is waiting. Stop listening to the instructions of your mind, will, and emotions. Yeshua (Jesus) has already rescued us and called us to be His servant . . . a servant of the instruction of His Spirit. What sin are you housing that’s stopping Him?
Responding to His glory,
Prophetess Karen M. Pina
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