Do You Hate Sin More?

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Romans 7:14-25 records the struggle of Paul has with sin.  Now that doesn't mean that Paul was sinning wantonly nor does it justify the doctrine of "Easy Christianity" with its acceptance of "Carnal Christianity".  Instead it means as the Christian life goes up and down, up and down the person gets closer to Go, the more they wish to be free from sin.

Romans 7:24 summarizes the Christian's frustration with sin, "O wretched man that I am!  Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"  Any Christian growing up more and more from the most immature to the most mature want to be completely free from sin.  But they must still struggle in the Lord, ask for the Holy Spirit to guide and convict them of their sins, to rely on God's life changing grace (Titus 2:11-14) to teach them the right way and not rely on themselves.

The Christian life has never been about the Christian's self-interest but the Christ in the Christian.  Remove Christ from Christian, you are left with IAN meaning I Am Nothing.  If you're truly saved then there's no way you can live like the rest of the world because of God's grace.  There is no way that even the most immature believer will love their sin.  Only fake converts will think that salvation is a license to sin.  Truly saved people wish to be completely free from sin.


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