Today's Daily Message

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Daily Message – February 5, 2008
Rev. Dr. Ramon E. McDonald II
Pastor – Mt. Oak Fellowship – Mitchellville, MD

I want to continue taking a look at Paul, one of the greatest apostles of the Bible. The truths about Paul can help us in our spiritual journey.

We mentioned in this sermon yesterday a couple of passages from Paul’s writings. One was about the struggle we deal with, even after the regeneration of the new life.

Romans 7:18-20 - 18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do — this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

Have you ever felt this way? If so, Satan has tried to convince you that you aren’t saved I bet. That if you were really saved you would do good all the time. Yet Paul, a godly man who strived to follow Christ and was often beaten and imprisoned for his faith, struggled and wrote about it in the above passage. The sin nature lives on in us and continues to wage war daily for our witness, if not for our soul.

We will see tomorrow that because Grace covers over all our sin, we shouldn’t sin more so Grace may abound, but it is good to know that I am not alone in my struggles to do what is good, what is of God.

Just something to think about today as you go on your way.