G- RACE

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G –Race

…I do not understand what I do.  For what I WANT to do, I do not do, but what I HATE I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is GOOD !

Exclamation point mine.
15 & 16 in Romans 7. 

Full context Romans 7:14-25. It a part of Sunday’s sermon… and where study today.

17-21!!! 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law 23 but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my member. 24 What a wretched man I am !  Who will rescue me from this body of death?

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The battle reflected in God’s LIVING Word, God breathed to our hearts- because it IS relevant to every breath we take in our today’s.

WHERE does your body ache from this battle waging in you today?  For it is for that pain of self inflicted wretchedness these Words are penned – and live out loud in the heart, spirit, soul, mind and strength of EVERY honest believer.  Even unbeliever actually too.  For are you in an even worse place… believing you are doing just fine on your own." I don’t need this so called God of yours.  All those that call themselves Christians are the WORST!" – you may say.

And a reply, even of a Christian to a non believer may be YUP, you are right. No one gets it right.

This, listen closely though, is NOT the cry of a hypocrite- using God’s grace… taking advantage of a pre-written excuse or answer to their repeated wrong doing.

Read it again…  THIS is written for the one who finds themselves on their knees, before God, their body dying from pain within, self inflicted, no way out, it’s there – its owned – ITS KILLING THEM, you, me… Paul.

I ask you again no matter what you believe:  Where does YOUR body ache today?  What is eating at you from within? What are you trying to hide away from – but it’s there – eating at you, stealing away your ability to win the fight to rise up?  Or, has the enemy won and made you believe there is NO REASON TO FIGHT? ‘I am too far gone” the whisper within…

24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Enemy whispers, ‘give up, there is no hope for getting it right, you will NEVER be good enough…’

Listen VERY CAREFULLY to ALL of the passage in Romans 7.  It is Gods LIVING WORD, written to be God breathed into your broken heart

TODAY

For that enemy whisper is right…

YOU

Will NEVER be good enough

That is why Jesus came

It is by GRACE that you are saved

Not by works – NO ONE

is GOOD ENOUGH

Not any of us!

“…who will rescue me from this body of death?”

25 Thanks be to God – through Jesus Christ our Lord !

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Hear the truth, in its entirety written here- for the enemy is a master of telling you only half the truth- therefore the master of lies------------

NOT ONE OF US IS RIGHTEOUS

You alone will NEVER be GOOD ENOUGH

Here is the TRUTH though WE NEED to hear-

That is why Jesus came…

And had to die-

He died a criminal’s death for you and I –

Not only so we don’t have to…

So that SIN can’t win.

For we could NEVER win this fight on our own – NEVER !

God in ALL His love

GAVE…

His Son to DIE FOR US

So we wouldn’t

Have to die

Death hath no sting in the Victory of Christ Jesus

He ALONE is The Righteous One, the ONLY One who is ABLE

25 Thanks be to God- through Jesus Christ our Lord !

so I myself in my mind am a slave to Gods law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

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8:1 Therefore there is NO condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death 5-17

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Don’t believe the enemies half truth.  Especially when your self imposed wretchedness causes a stench that you can’t even stand to open your eyes to!

Don’t you see?  It’s NOT your wretchedness you are called to look at – (that’s the enemies lie, to keep you there and tell you again and again and again you can’t win – ‘look at this’)

NO

on your knees,

close your eyes to the sin within

call on the

ONLY ONE

That can save you from

Where you alone

can never win

Call on Jesus

As your LORD and Savior

Open your eyes

To Him

SEEK Jesus’ face

Yes, even in your deepest disgrace

Seek Jesus’ face

There you will see GRACE

God so loved… He gave…

Just for this day

That Jesus may save a wretch like me, you, us…

7:25 Thanks be to God – through Jesus Christ our Lord !

PRAY

With a sincere heart, give in to the battle you alone will never win.

Where do you ache inside today-

Where has the enemy told you to stay - ???

Close your eyes

To THAT

(which means to confess it, denounce it, ask for forgiveness of it, to turn from it)

And CALL on Jesus’ face

Open your eyes to Him

Disgrace washed away

By grace

For the next Truth is the battle from within – Jesus loves you – in spite of your wrong, ache of sin within.  With Him there can be NO union with sin – He can only dispel it.

He in you, and you in Him

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Is the only place you

can win this fight.

RUN to, and stay in The Light

It will dispel the dark

Every time

But

The two can never be combined.

You have to make a choice of where you seek to dwell. 

In the dark

Or

In the light.

Don’t be deceived.  We are all here by grace – yes – it is NOT your license to try and hold on to both.

It is simply your ability to see the difference.  Let me repeat that.  It is simply your ability to see the difference.  THAT is what makes the difference.  Once you SEE the difference

You will always have to make the choice (again and again and again)

As Paul testifies to here himself-

The battle wages on to keep you down, to keep you hiding, to keep you in the dark, to keep you hunched over in shame, in sin, afraid to ever look up again

To make you believe the lie that you can never win—

Live in the WHOLE TRUTH

ALONE we can’t win

That’s why Jesus came

Call on His name.

There: disgrace

Is only in Him edited

To

GRACE

The G is God in

You

So that you remain

In the

RACE

That is

G RACE

THAT

Is Jesus’ face

Amen

Prayer:

Thank You God.  As pen this hour I see, that we can not share what we do not know.

We all as a follower of Jesus Christ have our own self inflicted wretchedness to insert here-

Our greatest testimony is not our words-

It is our walk.  It is Jesus in our lives- His LIVING WORD in US

IF He had not saved us, what testimony would we have? 

Father, also, The Truth that we can not love another, if we do not love our self.  That is why the WORD

The LIVING WORD is written as it is here too:

“Love your Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.  And the second is like it,

Love your neighbor as

yourself.”

As your self – is only truly possible through Christ and Him ALIVE in our lives.  Thank YOU God for illuminating Your Spirit into my spirit with the Truth – God so loved…

He gave…

Disgrace

Is edited to

GRACE

Gods RACE

Our Human race

GRACE

Because He first loved, we too may love

Even a wretch like me

In Jesus’ name AMEN

Conclusion and continued prayer, as read here in Romans 7 Paul enables us all to see God’s living Word living out loud in us each.

We all may pray as he…

Forgive me Jesus.  Thank You that You are the way the TRUTH and the life.  Thank YOU for forgiveness – that we truly are NEW in You.  My body still hurts from the shame it has allowed in.  Forgive me Lord Jesus for with You in me – it is YOU that I have sinned against.  This body is your sanctuary – forgive me.  May I open my eyes to YOU Jesus, show me how NOT to lose sight of You, in spite of me.  Thank YOU for bringing me even to here, to this wretched place, so that I can both

see

AND

Humbly proceed.

It is by grace that I am saved…

God’s race

Is GRACE

In Jesus’ name

May I believe it’s even for a wretch like me.

Not a hypocrite – a witness

Be the way the truth the life

In me

What would YOU have me to say

I’ve sinned,

Praise be to God YOU

Remain the same

Sinless

Righteous One

Jesus Christ

By your love

I am saved,

because of these…

why YOU came.

Oh God, tears and to my knees I fall. “Forgive me.”  I cry…

So that ‘FORGIVEN!”

I may proclaim.

May I believe this even to be true for me, that I too may truly love my neighbor as my self – knowing that means that I first must love my self – and believe that Jesus does in FACT love ‘me’

This I know because the Bible tells me so- since preschool little ones are taught to sing…

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Drive it home to me Jesus

I pray – in all your mercy and

GRACE

I see

YES

Indeed

You took this yoke for me!

Thank YOU Jesus- forgive me

Be my strength to look UP see Your face

And to Look into your eyes

And see Your soul

Reflected into mine

Thank You for saving a wretch like me

Again I plead- show me how You would have me reflect it from here

To share

G

Is what makes God a part of the race

Grace

2Cor13:14 In Jesus’ name

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Yes as Paul prays so may we. Romans 7 & 8 God’s Living Word and God breathed to us each, to be our Testimony, and Our prayer…