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Deliverance from Bondage   -    The Conflict of Two Natures

In about AD 59 while Paul was in Corinth on his third missionary journey, he wrote a letter to the Romans to introduce himself to the church and summarize his teachings.   This is an exerpt:

The Conflict of Two Natures
Rom 7:14-25
14   For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15    For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16    If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17    Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18    For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19    For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20    Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21    I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22    For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23    But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24    O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25    I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
(KJV)

Dliverance from Bondage
Rom 8:1-6
1    There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2    For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3    For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4    That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5    For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6    For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
(KJV)

The Law of the Spirit of Life
in Christ Jesus		 The Law of Sin and Death
Life
Faith
Devine Health
Prosperity
Blessings
Belief
Righteousness		 Death
Fear
Sickness
Poverty
Curses
Unbelief
Sin

2 Cor 5:17-21
17    Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18    And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19    To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20    Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
21    For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
(KJV)


Gal 3:13-18
13    Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
14    That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
15    Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
16    Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
17    And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
18   For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
(KJV)

Luke 4:17-18
17    And there was delivered unto him (Jesus) the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
18    The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
(KJV)
Blessings
Deut 28:1-6
1    And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2    And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
3    Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
4    Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
5    Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
6    Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
(KJV)

Curses
Deut 28:15
15    But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
(KJV)



Col 1:12-23
12    Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
13    Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
14    In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
15    Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16    For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17    And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18    And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
19    For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
20    And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
21    And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22    In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
23    If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
(KJV)