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Introduction:
I. Paul’s Delight (vs.
22)
The Apostle speaks regarding two areas of his delight and why this added to his struggle with sin.
A. The Law of Delight (vs.
22a)
Part of the issue for Paul that made his struggle with sin so real is that he did, in fact, find absolute delight in God and in His law.
In fact, the source of his struggle with sin was his strong delight in the law of God.
For without delight in the law of God there would be no struggle with sin.
There must be a reason for your struggle.
A source.
And for you to really have a struggle with sin you must have a passionate love for the law of God.
Because that love makes you struggle to not sin against the law you love.
Paul’s love for the law of God made his hatred of his sin what it was.
It as well was the source for his struggle.
Just what does it mean to delight in the law of God.
This word delight here means to take a high degree of pleasure or mental satisfaction in.
So Paul is saying I take a high degree of pleasure in the law of God.
It is literally where I find my mental satisfaction.
My soul, my mind, and heart delight in obedience to the law of God.
What is the law of God?
His Word.
Paul is saying that in obeying the infalliable, unchangable, Words of Almighty God, this is where he finds his source of satisfaction.
This is true of all real believers.
For there is no greater joy for any believer than when they are walking in accordance to the Word of God.
We need as Christians to also delight in the very person of the LORD.
Our hearts should find immense pleasure in the very person of Christ.
In the One who has clothed us with his righteousness.
In the one who though while we were sinners He made himself sin for us who knew no sin.
How can we not find immense satisfaction and delight in our Lord?
We as well need to delight in the very words of God.
This very Word that changes the heart.
This very Word the makes wise men look simple.
This very Word that brings joy to the heart.
This very Word that is to be desired more than honey.
This is the very law that keeps warned the followers of Christ, to keep them from sin.
And in the obedience of this law we find great reward.
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This is the very law that keeps warned the followers of Christ from sin
And in the keeping of this law there is great reward.
The very Words of almighty God is a rich fountain of satisfaction for believers.
It the foundation by which we live.
It is where we find our immense pleasure.
So Paul found his delight and satisfaction in the very Words of his Lord.
Everything about Him made him want to shout for joy.
Just where was his delight, where was it to be found?
B. The Location of Delight (22b)
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I want you to pay close attention to this part.
For this part is very crucial in understanding the underlying struggle of Paul that will be explained later in the message.
We have already established that Paul delighted in the very Words and person of our Lord.
But just where was this delight to be found?
Paul tells us in his inward man.
This is to mean that in his very inner heart and soul of who he is.
What makes Paul, Paul.
His soul.
His mind.
The very thing in him that makes decisions decided to delight in the law of God.
All of him finds delight in the Law of God.
All of who was was desperately devoted to delighting in the law of God.
So in this part we have found out that Paul so desperately delighted in God.
In His Law.
In His very person.
With everything in him he delighted in God.
But Paul saw another side of himself.
Something still inside of him.
What is this.
II.
Paul’s discernment (v.
23b)
Though so much of Paul was passionately in love with Christ.
Though he so desperately wanted to serve his Lord.
Paul saw another part of himself.
He saw another side of him that remained.
I want you to again notice where he saw this other side of him.
He said “in my members.”
In other words you could say in my inner being or what makes me who I am.
The same place where he saw a love and delight in God, he saw a war
And he saw a war breaking out between these seemingly polar opposite sides of himself.
A. Combat
Paul saw within himself something literally waging war against the things that his heart longed for.
He was in a hard spiritual battle for what would rule and reign in his life.
Paul said that there was a literal war taking place inside of him.
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There was a true battle for dominance going on inside of him.
Paul said he saw one side of him that desired to serve Christ and one part of him that was pulling him toward his sin and their going at it.
We as believers have this same battle.
This passage is so clear that we have two members inside of us.
One that minds the things of the Lord and one that is contrary to that dragging you to things of the flesh.
This is an on going raging battle with one purpose.
To keep you from doing the things that you so desire to do.
This indeed is the great division of the soul.
Where one part of you desires God and one sin.
Paul himself was experiencing this battle.
Because of this war going on.
Because of this battle taking place.
We see what the sin that still remains in paul does to him.
B. Captivity
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