Power over Darkness

: One of Paul’s most identifiable themes that we as Christians can really relate to must do with Paul’s struggle to live as he’d like to, 100% of the time.

“And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.

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I want to do what is right, but I can’t.

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I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.” (NLT)

: I had someone in my office just this week looking for encouragement about this matter.

: In these verses, Paul presents the idea of being indwelt by sin in the negative sense/form, to explain the remarkable statement, that nothing good lives in me.

Paul is addressing the sin that dwells within the “I,” that is, within one’s fleshly or carnal nature, which is not “a good thing.”

The point he is pressing, in any case, is that what indwells someone is what gives them the power to perform that which otherwise they would want to do but remain incapable of: literally, “for to will lies close to me, but to perform the good, not.”

“Without something “good” dwelling in me,” the “I” cannot bring the good will into reality; again, Paul is preparing the way for the contrast with the Spirit’s indwelling.

So we have this so far:

Back to Chapter 6:16

: So what does the natural sinful nature look like?

Ephesians 5 mentions such things as

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The list in Galatians 5:19f gets some little stronger naming things like

just to name a few as part which is part of that which is natural.

: Here is part of the key to understand:

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Word

right?

{spi’-ro}

1) to sow (plant), scatter, seed 2) metaph. of proverbial sayings

probably strengthened.

So, let me ask it this way? What Gym are you going to? How much time do you spend at the gym? What types of exercises are you constants?

: So, what does make us strong? (If you go on internet, you will find a thousand different opinions!

Here are mine:

Psalm 119:105 – word lamp unto feet; light to path

Psalm 11:11 – hid word in my heart that I might not sin against you

Joshua 1:8,

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{haw-gaw’}

1) to moan, growl, utter, muse, mutter, meditate, devise, plot, speak 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to roar, growl, groan 1a2) to utter, speak 1a3) to meditate, devise, muse, imagine

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{soo’-akh}

1) (Qal) to meditate, muse, commune, speak, complain

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from David and Jonathan – 1 Sam. 18-20

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: Does it have to be at church? We no, but where and how would we do this if not in the church?

: Several campaigns have for years encouraged us about things like, “Milk it does the body,” and others like that

Well it’s true, our intake is critical to our success.