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When we stopped last time we had just read through our Greek and English versions of Rom 7:25; We noted that In this verse we see the conflict between the volitional challenges in two sentences. The first sentence is the source of the solution to the conflict and the second sentence recognizes the options.
The NASB reads "Thanks be to the God through Jesus Christ our Lord" but in the original the verse actually begins with the nominative singular of the noun "charis" (grace) with the adversative conjunction "de" (but to) there is no verb.
Then the dative singular indirect object from "theos' (God) with the definite article "ho" (the). The use of the definite article makes it monadic so it places God into a unique classification. Literally it says, "Grace belongs to the God." This explains that the solution to the volitional challenge is God's solution, not man's solution.
In the Koine Greek this can also be translated, as the idiom" thanks be to the God" as translated in the NASB and every other translation I looked at, but it literally says "Grace belongs to the God" and that describes the solution to the problem so that is how we will translate it.
Then comes the prepositional phrase "dia" (through) plus the genitive of " Iesous Christos" (Jesus Christ) "through Jesus Christ." Plus the possessive genitive from "kurios" (Lord) with the definite article "ho" (the) " he Lord" making it monadic so it puts Jesus Christ into a special category with the personal pronoun "hemeis" (our) so we have "our Lord."
This explains that God's solution that is the only solution is Jesus Christ our Lord, the second husband, and that the solution to the problem is grace. Grace is the decisive factor in the inner conflict between the old sin nature and the Lord Jesus Christ.
This amplifies the reference to grace in Rom 5:2; The believer can be disappointed by people or circumstances in life on this earth but God's grace never fails us so we are never disappointed by God's grace.
Rom 7:25; Our hope does not depend upon other people our hope depends exclusively upon God's grace. Under God's grace policy the believer depends exclusively on God's perfect integrity.
Grace is the basis for mankind's adjustment to God's justice. Mankind will either adjust to God's justice by believing in Jesus Christ or God's justice will adjust to mankind by casting them into the Lake of Fire.
This is the difference between discipline and cursing or blessing and prosperity from God's justice. We must remember that God does not just possess life; He is life, perfect impeccable life that is not corrupted or contaminated by anything.
This means that God's action toward His creatures is never arbitrary, nor the result of indifference. God is governed by the nature of His perfect character in accord with the relevant attributes of His perfect essence.
This also brings us to an a fortiori that means with stronger reason. If the greater is accomplished then the lesser will not be withheld.
If God's justice has provided the greater blessing of justification and it has it follows a fortiori that the lesser blessings will not be withheld. In this case the lesser is blessings in time that flow through the grace pipeline.
The blessings flow from God's perfect justice to God's imputed righteousness in everyone who believes in Jesus Christ and what God's perfect righteousness demands God's perfect justice always does.
The direction is to the mature believer who has the capacity for the blessing from maximum doctrinal truth resident in the heart of the soul that comes from the re-programming of the heart of the soul with God's thinking and viewpoint.
The greater degree referenced in a fortiori is not quality or quantity, it is amount of effort. In other words it considers what takes the most power to do.
If God's justice can accomplish the greater by saving us by grace it follows a fortiori that God's justice can accomplish the lesser of blessing us by grace after we are saved.
If God's justice at salvation gave the greater benefit of imputed righteousness, it follows a fortiori that God's justice will not withhold the lesser of blessing and prosperity in time directed to experiential capacity righteousness.
Blessing and prosperity from God's justice glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. That is why we are left on this earth in the adverse environment of the devil's world in a sin nature infused biological body of death after salvation.
Remember that the difference between greater and lesser in a fortiori is not quality or quantity it only relates to degree of effort. The greater is more difficult to provide and the lesser is much easier to provide.
That means that the provision of blessing and prosperity in time is nothing compared to the provision of imputed righteousness and subsequent justification at salvation.
It also means that if God's justice provides greater blessing and prosperity in the adversity of time it follows a fortiori that God's justice will provide the lesser in the perfection of eternity because its easier to do.
The second sentence of the verse is the recognition of the options. "So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God." There are two inferential particles, "ara" (then) and "oun" (therefore). "Ara" (then) is an illative particle that expresses inference and "oun" (therefore) is a transitional inferential particle.
Put together we have "So then." What follows is Classical Greek in which there are two correlative particles: "men" (indeed), and later on "de" (but) that are translated "on the one hand, but on the other hand.
These give us the options. Then we have the present active indicative of the verb, "douleuo" (to serve or to be a slave to). It is an iterative present tense that is used to describe what occurs or happens at successive periodic intervals.
The tense refers to the alternatives that result from the volitional choices. The active voice: the nominative singular subject is "ego" (I) that refers to Paul who represents himself as the believer with the volitional dilemma.
Plus the predicate of the intensive pronoun "autos" (myself) plus the potential indicative of obligation "men" (on one hand) then the alternative the potential indicative of impulse "de" (on the other hand).
Then we insert "with the mind," the instrumental of means singular from "nous" (mind). Bible doctrine has to be resident in the mind and the believer must be filled with the Spirit for this alternative to be true. So we are talking about the option that puts us on the right track.
Next is the dative singular indirect object from "nomos" (law). The phrase is anartharous because there is no definite article so it refers to highest quality of "nomos" (law) with the possessive genitive singular from "theos" (God) "God's Law."
God' Law refers to the principle of grace function that includes rebound for the filling of the Spirit and the daily function of GASP for the advance to maturity adjustment to God's justice at spiritual maturity.
The principle of God's Law only serves in the mind and not in the body where the old sin nature is located. God' Law is the principle of experiential sanctification by persistent function under GASP.
"but with the flesh the law of sin" "de" (but) is connected with "men" (on one hand), so this time it means "but on the other hand." Then the verb that is not repeated is inserted because it is implied in the Classical Greek.
The word "sarx" (flesh) with the definite article "ho" (the) is an instrumental of means that exclusively refers to the old sin nature because the definite article "ho" (the) makes it monadic but it is translated as a possessive pronoun into the English as "with my flesh." Plus the dative singular indirect object from "nomos" (law) referring to a principle.
Next is the possessive genitive singular from "hamartia" (of sin) referring to the OSN so we have "but on the other hand with my flesh I serve the law or the principle of the sin nature."
The law of the sin nature is the principle of the impulses, negative emotions, or trends of sin, human good and evil that emanate from the sin nature.
Expanded Translation Rom 7:25; "Grace belongs to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then on the one hand with my mind I myself serve the law of God; but on the other hand with my flesh I myself serve the law of sin."
In this verse we see that two mutually exclusive principles are waging a continuous unrelenting battle inside of the believer.
Each husband has a headquarters. The OSN, the ex-husband, resides in the body but attacks the soul. The Lord Jesus Christ resides in the soul and seeks to control the body through His thinking that resides in the soul from metabolized epignosis doctrine.
God the Holy Spirit as the marriage counselor, combined with Bible doctrine resident in the soul represents the new husband. God the Holy Spirit through the recall and application of Bible doctrine must control the believer' soul for the believer to serve God's law with the mind.
The believer recovers the filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit that is lost through personal sins through rebound adjustment to God's justice.
The believer's consistent daily function in God's GASP system programs Bible doctrine resident into the believer's soul resulting in spiritual growth and maturity adjustment to God's justice.
Function under God's law includes the filling of the Spirit plus the daily function of GASP, resulting in experiential sanctification and maturity adjustment to God's justice.
Function under the law of sin results in carnality and reversionism that brings divine discipline that left unchecked ultimately ends in the sin unto death.
The sin unto death does not infer loss of salvation it is simply the last stage of God's intensive discipline on the reversionistic believer that results in physical biological death in time.
In Romans chapter 7 we encountered three critical doctrines that the believer must properly understand in some detail in order to properly comply with God's mandates that are referenced in the chapter.
These three doctrines are the doctrine of the Mosaic Law, the doctrine of the old sin nature and the doctrine of the filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit. We will now spend some time on these three doctrines before we move on into Romans chapter 8.