Romans 7 -8 Victory!

In Romans 7 we're shown our old nature and its hold on us. Even though we're dead to sin (Chapter 6) we still struggle with doing what we think God wants. Chapter 7 shows us that we can't. "I do what I don't want to do and I don't do what I want to do." Works don't work. In and of ourselves we cannot be victors. But, thank God, we "have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter." Our goal is not to live up to the letter of the law but to serve in the newness of the Spirit. We serve because we love Jesus and want to, not because we feel compelled or guilty. Chapter 8 wraps up chapters 6&7. It's the victory Chapter. Victory over sin. "Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus". Dead to sin, delivered from the law, Living in the Holy Spirit. Amen.