all God’s commands were righteous, he confessed that he was resistant to being told what to do. He understood that all his underlying You’re not the boss of me resistance could never be overcome by rules. That’s why, at the end of Romans 7, after confessing his powerlessness to respond rightly to the law, he cried, “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?” (7:24). Hear Paul’s agonized frustration. This former ultra-righteous Pharisee had come face to face with his inability