to the sin that is still within me. In my mind I want to be God’s willing servant, but instead I find myself still enslaved to sin. My new life tells me to do right, but the old nature that is still inside me loves to sin. Oh, what a terrible predicament I am in! Who will free me from my slavery to this deadly lower nature? Thank God! It has been done by Jesus Christ the Lord. He has set me free.2 The struggle between the old and the new self is a constant theme in the New Testament. The false self
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