In an effort to prove to the Jew that the Gospel is God’s power for saving man (1:16), Paul has to show the weakness of the law of Moses to do that very thing. However, he does not want the Jew to walk away from the discussion believing that the Law of Moses was bad, ineffective, or unholy. Thus, in Romans 7, Paul has pointed out that sin used the law to stir up sinful passions (7:5). The law had said, “Do not covet” (7:7) and sin used that law to produce “coveting of every kind” (7:8).
Sin – “coveting” is Paul’s example – caused death in him (as a Jew). Sin was shown to be sin as it produced death in Paul by motivating him to break the commandment, “Do not covet.” In doing so, sin revealed itself to be “utterly sinful” (7:13).
That brings us to this last section of chapter 7, where Paul goes on to illustrate how powerless a Jew was who was trying to live right with simply the law as his standard. The law is spiritual but humans are “of flesh.” When we sin, which he has discussed thoroughly in chapter 6, we are “in bondage to sin” (7:14).
How so? Because we do things we do not understand and practice what we do not like to do. Rather, we do what we hate to do (7:15). When Paul does what he does not like to do (that is, sin or “covet”), then he agrees with what the Law says, again illustrating that the Law is good.
Sin took advantage of the law, Paul has said in verse 11; now, sin takes advantage of Paul (vs 17). Apart from the help of God, “nothing good” dwells in Paul, speaking in a fleshly since. The will might be present but the doing is not (vs 18). Repeating his sentiments from verse 15, in verse 19, Paul says that he does not do the good that he wants to do and he does the bad that he does not want to do. That is sin, working in Paul (vs 20).
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Paul wanted to do good, as a Jew. But evil was present and motivated him to sin (vs 21). Yes, the law said, “Do not covet” and Paul consented to that (vs 22). Yet that law touched the inner man but did not rule over the “members of his body” (vs 23). The law that ruled his body waged war against the law in his mind, making him a prisoner of the law of sin in his body.
So, Paul cries out in verse 24: “Wretched man that I am!” Then, he asks this rhetorical question: “Who shall free me from the body of this death?”
The answer? God does, through Jesus Christ the Lord (vs 25). Paul would serve the law of God in his mind but the law of sin would still reign in his flesh. He needs freedom. He needs to break the chains of slavery that are wrapped around him – chains which the Law of Moses could not break. How can they be broken? Through the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus! More on that next week…
Paul Holland
