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The Miserable Man

3/28/2021

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So far in our study of Romans seven and eight we have looked at the  Regenerate Man and the Impotent Man. 
This man is not only regenerate and impotent, but he is also a Miserable  Man. He is utterly unhappy and completely miserable; and what is it that  makes him so completely miserable? It is because God has given him a  
new nature that loves his Lord. He has fallen in love with this loving, caring  God who has given him the hope of salvation. And is miserable because  he is not obeying this God's law that he loves so much. Finally with a  broken heart he cries, "But I am not really the one who is doing these  hated things; it is sin living in me that does them." Romans 7:17 (NCV)  Friends we are very blessed when we get to the point where we cry: "What  a miserable man I am!" When we experience this kind of pain for hurting  our Lord and Savior, then we are on our way to the eighth chapter of  Romans. 
The other side of this is that it is all to easy for us to use this confession  that Paul makes here in Romans seven as an excuse for sin. We are  tempted to say, "Why, if Paul had to confess his weakness and utter  inability to live a life of victory then what hope do I have to do better?" And  at this point in our walk with Jesus there is a great temptation to quietly set  our call to be holy and live a life of victory in Jesus aside. It is my great  hope that everyone of us can voice these words "What a miserable man I  am!" In the spirit in which they were written here in Romans 7:24. Where if  we are unkind or think an immoral thought we scream out; "What a  miserable man I am!" And every time we gossip or criticize we kneel down  to God with the understanding that this was never the state where God  means for us to stay. Andrew Murray speaking on this very verse said it  this way,
"Would God that we would take this word into our daily life, and say it  every time we are touched about our honor, and every time we say sharp  things, and every time we sin against the Lord God, and against the Lord  Jesus Christ in His humility, and in His obedience, and in His self-sacrifice.  Would to God you could forget everything else and cry out: "O wretched  man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of death?" Why should  you say this whenever you commit sin? Because it is when a man is  brought to this confession that deliverance is at hand." Absolute Surrender  p. 75-76 
I have lived the experience of being impotent and captive in my spiritual  life, and if I am honest I often still do, and it makes me realize my  miserableness and wretchedness. But the thing that causes me the most  pain is hurting my Lord and Savior Jesus! I can relate to this man Paul is  talking about and I am thankful that being sinful in God's sight is  unbearable and I often cry out: "Oh Miserable Man that I am!" Because it  is when every sin grieves us and makes us indescribably miserable that we  are not only pushed to ask: "Who will save me from this body that brings  me death?" But we cry out in hope: "I thank God for saving me through  Jesus Christ our Lord!"

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    Pastor Brad Traxler is the pastor of the Wrangell SDA Church. Brad Traxler is the husband of forty years to Cheryl, father to Kimberly and Ryan, and grandfather to Brad, Kevin, William, Eamon, Zairhen, Seraphina, and Zeelyah. He holds a BA in Theology and has been pastoring churches for twenty years. The greatest passion of His life has been to share Jesus. 

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