{"id":4221,"date":"2019-09-14T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.galmin.co.za\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2019-09-14T20:00:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T18:00:31","slug":"why-is-it-a-struggle-to-read-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galmin.co.za\/?p=4221","title":{"rendered":"Why is it a struggle to read the Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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The scripture in Romans 7 verse 13 to 25 emphasizes Paul\u2019s turmoil with sin and his flesh. The scripture reads as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWas then that which is good made death\nunto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by\nthat which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For we know that the law is spiritual: but\nI am carnal, sold under sin.
\n<\/strong>For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I\nnot; but what I hate, that do I. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If then I do that which I would not, I\nconsent unto the law that it is<\/em> good.  Now then it\nis no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good\nthing: for to will is present with me; but how<\/em> to perform\nthat which is good I find not.  For the good\nthat I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.  Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but\nsin that dwelleth in me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I find then a law, that, when I would do\ngood, evil is present with me.  For I\ndelight in the law of God after the inward man:  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of\nmy mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my\nmembers.  O wretched\nman that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the\nmind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To summarise these verses it means that you hate sin, but is still doing it, you love the commandments of the Lord, but you do not want to do them.\u00a0 That is one of the reasons why we don\u2019t want to commit ourselves to read the Bible, because you may feel: <\/p>\n\n\n\n