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ROM 7:23 COMMENTARY

Some believe the man in Rom7:23 is showing that a converted person has two conflicting natures in them. Read the whole of Romans 6 and Romans 8:1-14 and ask yourself is the man of Rom.7:23 a converted saint. The bible teaches you either have the Carnal mind or the Spiritual mind. Not both at the same time. Rom.8:2 tells us the the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made the saint free from the law of sin and death, which is the law of sin in the members spoken of in Rom.7:23. Rom.6 speaks of being made free from sin Rom6:6,7,16-24 especially, and speaks of the sinful experience as conquered and in the past, while Rom7:8-23 speaks of an person that is frustratingly a captive to sin. Rom.8:1-14 explains the way how of victory over sin. Rom8:9 tells us they that are in the flesh, which is those having the carnal mind are none of His. The man of Rom.7:23 has the carnal mind and is in the flesh, and thus bares fruit of the flesh and thus is none of His. Matt.7:17,18 & luke 6:43-45 tells us a good tree only brings forth good fruit and a bad tree (the carnal mind) bad fruit. A person could only have one experience at a time either abiding in Christ by abiding in the word or abiding in the flesh by not allowing Christ to remain in the thoughts of the mind. Carnal desires is due to not holding the word of truth in your mind. The bible also tells us walk in the Spirit and we shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh, and that they that are in the Spirit hath crucified the flesh with its affection and lust. Gal.5:17 tells us the flesh is oppposeth in principle to the Spirit so you either have one experience or the other and cannot do as you would, as it is written he that is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him -1John 3:9.

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