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In our verse by verse study of Romans last time we completed our Expanded Translation of Rom 7:23; "But I see a different principle in the members of my body, campaigning against the principle of my mind, and making me a prisoner to the principle of the sin nature located in the members of my body."
We noted that apart from Bible doctrine resident in the left lobe of the soul the OSN controls the battlefield with tactical victory, especially by getting the believer involved with human good and evil that corrupts the power of the soul's decision making authority by distorting at least one of the conflicting principles of human good and evil from the OSN.
The conflicting principles of human good and evil are mutually exclusive with God's Word of Truth in the right lobe of the soul and there can never be any compromise because God's Truth and satan's cosmic lie are mutually exclusive.
Both of these principles reside in the believer so the believer's life on this earth is a constant battleground. The OSN indwells the body; the Holy Spirit indwells the body. The OSN attacks the soul, but is deterred if there is Bible doctrine resident in the right lobe of the soul.
Since the OSN is located in the body, as its headquarters, it makes its attacks toward the soul; it does not reside in the soul. It makes its attack through the OSN trends of sin, human good, and evil.
The verse we are studying emphasizes the aggressiveness and relentlessness of the OSN and it also explains to us that unless OSN's attack is countered with Bible doctrine resident in the right lobe of the soul under the filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit we will be made prisoners of the OSN during our life in time on this earth in our biological body and become a casualty in the spiritual war that continuously rages around us
Rom 7:24; describes the despair that comes to the believer who is in reversionism from being taken captive by the OSN. "Wretched man that I am!" The word "wretched" has changed its meaning drastically since the KJV was translated but all of the newer versions I looked at also use it.
With it is the nominative singular subject from the personal pronoun "ego" (I) that is used here for the purpose of expressing the personal misery of a believer who is in reversionism.
We must understand that Paul is not wretched when he writes because as the writer of this passage he is a mature believer, and under the filling of God the Holy Spirit as he is writing this passage he extremely happy.
But in order to personify the difficulties of reversionism he is led by God the Holy Spirit to take the position of a reversionist in order to express the disaster of warning discipline, intensive discipline, and eventually dying discipline.
In the English the subject "I" demands the insertion of the present active indicative from "eimi" (am) that is assumed to be in this type of sentence structure. This is a retroactive progressive present that expresses linear action that takes us right up to the time that Paul's writing this.
The predicate nominative singular of exclamation from the adjective "talaiporos" (wretched or miserable) that means to be totally miserable, so it should be translated "I am a miserable person." This is the testimony of every reversionist.
Paul's writing it without the verb makes it more emphatic. This adjective perfectly describes the reversionistic believer who is under divine discipline. Next is the predicate nominative singular from "anthropos" (man), used here to describe any person.
This refers to the believer whose suffering comes from divine discipline as a result of reversionism. It is dealing with the believer who has neglected and rejected Bible doctrine, the believer who is not familiar with or who has forgotten and rejected how to live the Christian life.
"who will deliver me from the body of this death?" In other words how do I get out of this mess so I can get out of the misery? It begins with the interrogative pronoun, the nominative singular subject "tis" (who).
We usually tend to depend upon people to help pull us out of the doldrums. When we feel bad we try to seek help from people. Next we have the future active indicative of the verb "rhyomai" (deliver or rescue). It means to drag out of danger or to drag someone out who is helpless plus the accusative singular direct object of "ego" (me).
The verb has a progressive future that expresses the idea of action in future time. You can be rescued but it has to be done one day at a time because in this situation there is no instantaneous rescue and recovery.
Rescue requires doctrine today, doctrine tomorrow, a little bit more every day is the only way a believer can be dragged out of and rescued from reversionism.
The active voice: the question is presented to an unknown subject that is revealed in the next chapter as God the Holy Spirit plus Bible doctrine resident in the soul that is the only rescue team that can do this.
The interrogative indicative mood assumes that there is an actual fact that may be stated as an answer to the question so it emphasizes the factors of experiential sanctification that lead to maturity adjustment to God's justice.
Next is the prepositional phrase, "ek" (from) plus the singular of the noun "soma" (body), with the definite article "ho" (the) making it monadic so it refers exclusively to the previous reference to the human body as the headquarters and residence of the old sin nature the ruler of biological human life from physical birth
The genitive of relationship singular from the near demonstrative pronoun "ho" (this), plus the noun "thanatos" (death) "this death" so we have "who will rescue me from the body of this death?"
Expanded Translation Rom 7:24;"I am a miserable person! Who will rescue me from the body of this death?"
What is being described here is the principle of the increase of God's grace. While grace covers the sins performed under the old sin nature at salvation and when the believer rebounds, grace is not increased through the human good and evil function of the old sin nature.
Grace is God's policy whereby God's justice blesses the believer with capacity from God's righteousness. This means that grace increases first at the point of justification for salvation and then incrementally under God's GASP system as the believer advances in doctrine to maturity adjustment to God's justice at spiritual maturity
God's grace increases in direct proportion to the development of the believer's capacity for blessing from epignosis doctrine resident in the heart of the soul. Grace increases as a believer grows through God's system of GASP.
Therefore grace increases through perception of God's Word of Truth under the filling of the Spirit. Maximum inculcation of doctrinal truth results in maximum blessing.
Grace is never advanced through the function of the trends of the old sin nature.
The principle of rescue is an increase of grace. The mechanics of rescue include the filling of the Spirit and the constant daily function of GASP, eventuating in maturity adjustment to God's justice from epignosis doctrine.
God gives each of us one day at a time for the purpose of perception of Bible doctrine that is the only means of spiritual growth. The "body of death" is the residence of the old sin nature in the biological human body.
Rescue or deliverance is the direct result of grace increase based on capacity from doctrine as the believer adjusts to God's justice in their advance to spiritual maturity.
Three things occur at salvation that begins God's rescue or deliverance. First is the imputation of God's righteousness to the believer resulting in justification and the construction of the grace pipeline between God's perfect righteousness and God's imputed righteousness in the believer.
Second is the real imputation of everlasting life to its divinely prepared home or target the regenerated human spirit.
Third is the baptism of the Holy Spirit that divorces the new believer from the old sin nature as the first husband, and marries the new believer to the Lord Jesus Christ who is the second husband.
Newness of life "kianotes zoe" (Rom 6:4) is the grace environment provided through the baptism of the Spirit for blessing from God's justice as the believer advances to spiritual maturity.
This new life is superior to the life that the original man and the woman had in the perfection of the Garden of Eden.
We must understand that under God's grace policy God's justice blesses the believer. Grace is not increased through the function of the old sin nature and grace does not provide motivation for living under the power of the OSN.
As a divine policy grace cannot and does not motivate the believer to go back to the OSN, the ex-husband however the only way to avoid this is through epignosis Bible doctrine resident in believer's heart (kardia).
To the legalistic believer grace appears to be a license to sin and to the antinomian believer grace appears to be an excuse to sin. Neither viewpoint is correct.
Both are wrong and both are antithetical to God's immutable holy integrity. God's integrity does not sponsor or enable the trends of the OSN so neither legalism nor antinomianism can break away from the sovereign power of the old sin nature.
Maximum Bible doctrine results in increased grace from the righteousness created from doctrinal truth. The soul and specifically the heart of the soul is the key to the advance to spiritual maturity that glorifies Jesus Christ.
The soul must be occupied and saturated with Bible doctrine under the filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit.
God's grace policy uses His justice to provide blessing for the believer in time as well as in eternity. God's integrity does not depend on sinfulness or the production of human good or evil.
Personal sin, and the production of human good, and evil that are the products of the OSN do not bring grace blessings from God's justice instead they bring discipline from God's justice.
God's justice the source of both blessing and discipline because under God's grace policy that God's love establishes God's justice is always the believer's point of reference for their spiritual advance.
God's justice must discipline the believer's reversionism, and God's justice must bless the believer's advance in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ
After salvation the believer cannot be dominated by the old sin nature and advance to maturity adjustment to God's justice.
Sinfulness or carnality is quickly handed by rebound adjustment to God's justice but the OSN's trends toward human good and evil produce reversionism that results in punishment and discipline from God's justice instead of blessing from God's justice.
After salvation God has provided a system of doctrine to fortify the soul as a base of operations for the advance to spiritual maturity.
This system of doctrine provides a daily option from the volition of the soul, the means of placing ourselves under orders to God. That option requires two things: the filling ministry of the Spirit that requires rebound when necessary, and positive volition toward doctrine.
Since learning doctrine is the greatest thing we do in life, the daily positive volition toward doctrine is the only way to advance to the high ground of spiritual maturity.
Self-determination must be related to perception of doctrine under the filling of the Holy Spirit. Being committed to Christ means receiving the delivery of His doctrinal system and using it.
The soul must be saturated with Bible doctrine to offset the influence of the old sin nature, and at the same time to advance to the objective of maturity adjustment to God's justice.
Rejection of doctrinal teaching and ignorance of or the rejection of the doctrinal system revealed in God's Word of Truth is the reason for our failure.
Rejection of doctrinal truth results in ignorance of doctrine so it is the most serious offence against the second husband, the Lord Jesus Christ. Nothing in Christianity can ever be divorced from perception and inculcation of God's Word of Truth.
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