Galatians 5:13
You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.
Many times when someone brings up Romans 7 (what I will not to do I do anyway) it is to somehow justify their inability to keep from indulging their sinful nature.
The devil would like us to confess that we are an utterly hopeless sinful person. However, that's only true when we separate ourselves from the Holy Spirit who gives us the power and grace to live by the spirit and deny ourselves the repetitive indulgance in sin.
Its pretty clear to me, we either invite the Holy Spirit to work in us so that we seek selfless pleasure from serving others and doing His will or we crawl back to our own selfish nature and seek to pleasure our flesh neglecting the needs of our brothers and laying a path of destruction.
How will you use your freedom?
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