EEM TODAY DEVOTIONAL🌹 FRIDAY 18TH NOVEMBER, 2022

 🌹EEM TODAY DEVOTIONAL🌹

FRIDAY 18TH NOVEMBER, 2022

TOPIC: YOUR SLAVE MASTER HUSBAND IS DEAD I

KEY SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 7:14-25 MSG

"I can anticipate the response that is coming: “I know that all God’s commands are spiritual, but I’m not. Isn’t this also your experience?” Yes. I’m full of myself—after all, I’ve spent a long time in sin’s prison. What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise. So if I can’t be trusted to figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that God’s command is necessary. But I need something more ! For if I know the law but still can’t keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help! I realize that I don’t have what it takes. I can will it, but I can’t do it. I decide to do good, but I don’t really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway. My decisions, such as they are, don’t result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time. It happens so regularly that it’s predictable. The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up. I truly delight in God’s commands, but it’s pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight. Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take charge. I’ve tried everything and nothing helps. I’m at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn’t that the real question? The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different."

COMMENTARY:

Your self — what you call "the real you" — is your soul. In Paul's comparison(Rom. 7:1-4), that self is the woman in the marriage. The reason why your self did the things it did before you were born again was because it was married to the corrupt old man —your sin nature.

This sin nature was the nature of the devil(Eph. 2:1-3). We "were by nature the children of wrath"(v. 3). You were born into this world with a dead spirit—an old man — a nature that was against God. Your self— your soul— was married to this old nature, which dominated and controlled you. Your mind, will, and emotions were married to this old nature and you couldn't get separated. You didn’t have any power to go against him. You were his Slave, completely sold to him.

Apostle Paul complained about his situation while married to this tyrant. “So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin. I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it. And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.” - Romans 7:14-15, 17-19 NLT

Just like a married couple, there was no way out, except by death. But this old guy wouldn't die—and he was a tyrant! So how did you break free? When Jesus came and died for you, He took your old man—your sin nature—into Himself. "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?"(Romans 6:3). You are dead in Him. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me(Galatians 2:20).

Your old man died with Christ. Somehow, Jesus was able to take your sin—not your individual sins only, but your sin nature, your old man. Jesus literally took your sin nature upon Himself when He died. Now your sin nature is dead. It's gone — nonexistent. Hallelujah! You are free. Your old husband(sin)  has no dominion over you again. He’s dead, he’s gone.

PRAYER POINT:

Lord, I thank You word today. I receive the grace and to continually renew my mind to the reality that I am no longer a slave to the nature of sin but rather I am now one with Christ and therefore have His Righteous nature, in Jesus' Name. AMEN!

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