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What A Miserable Man I Am

12/12/2020

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(Romans 7:24, 25.) "What a miserable man I am! Who will save me from  this body that brings me death? I thank God for saving me through Jesus  Christ our Lord!" (New Century Version) 
We are all familiar with this passage in Romans, but have you noticed  where this text is placed in this wonderful writing of Paul? It is right at the  end of the seventh chapter and is the segue into the eighth. Then in the  first sixteen verses of the eighth chapter we find that Paul uses the name  of the Holy Spirit sixteen times. In these sixteen verses we find the  description and the awesome promise that we as children of God can live  in the power of the Holy Spirit. This starts in the second verse: "Through  Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit that brings life made you free from the  law that brings sin and death." (NCV) Then Paul goes on to tell of the great  and wonderful privileges we have as the children of God; and just as  important that we are actually led by the Holy Spirit. And the gateway to all  this is the twenty-forth verse of chapter seven. "What a miserable man I  am!" 
Here we find the words of a man who has come to the end of himself. And  I have to ask the question: Have you gotten there yet? 
In the previous verses of chapter seven Paul describes how he had  struggled and fought on his own to obey the Holy law of God, and had  failed miserably! But, then he answers his own question: "I thank God for  saving me through Jesus Christ our Lord!" (NCV) From there Paul opens to  us what that deliverance is that he has found.
So let's take a look at how you and I can be led from this life of misery and  spirit of bondage into the spirit of freedom in Jesus. Paul tells us in verse  fifteen, "The Spirit we received does not make us slaves again to fear;" (NCV) Again and again we are warned that this is a great danger for  us as children of God; to fall back into a life of spiritual bondage to the law. 
The next four weeks I would like to try and share with you how we can get  out of this bondage, by looking at the four persons that Paul is describing  in this all important passage. Next week we will look at The Regenerate  Man; then The Impotent Man, then The Miserable Man, and last The  Almost-Delivered Man. Paul's experience has been my experience as well,  and maybe you can find help in your walk with Jesus too.

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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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