Jan. 16th, 2022
January 16, 2022

Winning The Battle Inside Me

The Invisible War – Part 2
Romans 7:15-25
Roy Meadows, Lead Pastor

January 16, 2022

THE COST OF THE BATTLE


“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I
do”. Vs 15


“And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good”. Vs 16


“As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me”. Vs 17


“For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature”. Vs 18a


“For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do - this I keep on doing.
20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me
that does it”. Vss 18b-20


“So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in
me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of
sin at work within me”. Vss 21, 23


“I love to do God’s will so far as my new nature is concerned; but there is something
else deep within me, in my lower nature, that is at war with my mind and wins the
fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. Vss 21, 23
So you see how it is: my new life tells me to do right, but the old nature that is still
inside me loves to sin. Oh, what a terrible predicament I’m in”! Vs 24a

GOD’S BATTLE PLAN FOR MY VICTORY


“What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to
death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Romans 7:24-25 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather
offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and
offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. Romans
6:12-13 …because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free
from the law of sin and death”. Romans 8:2


“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us”. 1 John 1:8

· Behind every self-defeat (sinful) act is A LIE I HAVE BELIEVED
· To stop defeating myself, I must: STOP DECEIVING MYSELF
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. John 8:32


“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may
be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. James 5:16
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Galatians” 5:16