Rescued From Indwelling Sin

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September 4, 2008  A.D.
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Rescued From Indwelling SinGreetings and welcome to all present and online, in America and abroad. Straight Gate Ministries and Pastor Teacher Landis Fisher is continuing today in the seventh chapter of Romans dealing with a provocative topic on how sin effects believers even though they are possessors the gift of Salvation. Of what purpose is God’s Law? Can the Law justify a person in God’s sight? Well listen in as Pastor Landis Fisher teaches a lesson he has titled: “Rescued from Indwelling Sin”

Old Testament Scripture Reading: Zechariah 3:1 – 9  (NASB)
Zec 3:1  Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
Zec 3:2  And the LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, Satan! Indeed, the LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?”
Zec 3:3  Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and standing before the angel.
Zec 3:4  And he spoke and said to those who were standing before him saying, “Remove the filthy garments from him.” Again he said to him, “See, I have taken your iniquity away from you and will clothe you with festal robes.”
Zec 3:5  Then I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments, while the angel of the LORD was standing by.
Zec 3:6  And the angel of the LORD admonished Joshua saying,
Zec 3:7  “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘If you will walk in My ways, and if you will perform My service, then you will also govern My house and also have charge of My courts, and I will grant you free access among these who are standing here.
Zec 3:8  ‘Now listen, Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who are sitting in front of you– indeed they are men who are a symbol, for behold, I am going to bring in My servant the Branch.
Zec 3:9  ‘For behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave an inscription on it,’ declares the LORD of hosts, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
New Testament Scripture Reading: Romans 7:13 – 25  (NASB)
Rom 7:12  So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Rom 7:13  Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
Rom 7:14  For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.
Rom 7:15  For that which I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.
Rom 7:16  But if I do the very thing I do not wish to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that it is good.
Rom 7:17  So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which indwells me.
Rom 7:18  For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the wishing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.
Rom 7:19  For the good that I wish, I do not do; but I practice the very evil that I do not wish.
Rom 7:20  But if I am doing the very thing I do not wish, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
Rom 7:21  I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wishes to do good.
Rom 7:22  For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,
Rom 7:23  but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.
Rom 7:24  Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25  Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.
Transforming Power Statements:
#1) The holiness of the Law of God when presented reveals  to the transgressors thereof the carnality of their nature and is designed to amplify sin and draw the sinner to accountability before God.

#2) The saved individual has been given a deep inner desire to please God and really wishes to live in accordance with the Law of God and is often found in conflict with God in that there is yet the presence of indwelling sin.

#3) The only deliverance from such a fallen condition is by the blood of Jesus Whom God has sent forth to deliver all who believe in Him from eternal wrath and endless judgment.