To: SoConPubbie
Chapter 7 just details the struggle of a man who has been awakened to his sinful state, basically a state of Repentence where he realizes that without the help of a benevolent God, he is doomed.
And you believe that there are Pastors today who serve in our churches who do not have these struggles ?
To: SeekAndFind
And you believe that there are Pastors today who serve in our churches who do not have these struggles ?
Quite the opposite, to the shame of Christianity.
Given the sad state of Christian Churches today, this seems to be the rule instead of the exception.
Few there be that preach a Gospel of forgiveness AND Freedom from Sin.
It is the Freedom from Sin, however, that is the real Power of the Gospel, because otherwise, we are still in the Old-Testament dispensation where people would continually sin, but go to the Priest to confess their sins, over and over again.
If there is no Freedom from Sin, why would Jesus have come to go to Calvary, it would have been a symbolic gesture at best of no real value.
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