Thanks be to God. He has acted already to set us free! Through our Lord Jesus Christ! God sets us free through Jesus Christ! See Romans 8:2. This, then is my condition. By myself - without Christ's help the best I can do is serve God's law with my mind, while the sin that lives in me perverts my weak human nature. Luther says: "This struggle lasts as long as we live; it is more violent in one person, less so in another, according as the Spirit or the flesh grows stronger. And yet the entire person is himself both Spirit and flesh, struggling with himself until he becomes altogether spiritual." [By flesh, Luther means human nature.] Compare what Paul says in Galatians 5:16-18.

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