Hello.
I'm sorry. I don't understand what you're saying. Can you clarify for me?
Hi again Reformationist
Sorry about the ambiguity, it got kind of confusing even to me by the time I was finished, I knew what I wanted to say, I could see it, but trying to put it into words became more difficult as I went along.
Let me try it this way.
In this verse Paul asked a rhetorical question, because he already understood the resolution of the dichotomy he had expressed in the previous verses.
Rom. 7:24
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Paul then sums it all up, (The entire chapter) in the last verse, by giving the resolution to his question asked in Verse 24.
Rom. 7:25
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God;
but with the flesh the law of sin.
Owing to the fact Paul understands where his position is, both in relation to the Spirit, and the Flesh, Paul reconciles the two, by saying in the last verse.
This is what I believe Paul was saying.
I know what I will do, I will serve (keep) the Law of God with my mind (Spirit)
All the while, my flesh (body) I will serve (keep) the Law of Sin.
The Law of Sin being.
Rom. 7:21
When I would do good, evil is present with me.
When Paul speaks about serving the Law of sin, he was NOT speaking about keeping the Law of Sin and Death, because only two verses after verse 25, he says this.
Rom. 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus
hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom. 7:5,6
5) For when we were in the flesh,
the motions of sins,
which were by the law,
did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6) But now we are delivered from the law,
that being dead wherein we were held;
that we should serve in newness of spirit,
and not in the oldness of the letter.
1Co.15:55 ,56
55) O death, where is thy sting?
O grave, where is thy victory?
56) The sting of death is sin;
and the strength of sin is the law.
It has already been concluded, we (Believers) are dead to the Law
Rom. 6:9-12
9) Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more;
death hath no more dominion over him.
10) For in that he died, he died unto sin once:
but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11) Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin,
but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12) Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body,
that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Rom. 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you:
for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Rom. 7:1
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,)
how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Therefore we are bound by the Law as long as we live.
To simplify this understanding, while we (Believers) are still alive in our body, our Flesh is dead to the Law, we remain in the Body as (man), our Body is still subject to the Dominion of the Law, but not unto death, for Christ has died for us, and we having been Crucified with Him die no more, having been Resurrected with Him unto Newness of Life in the Spirit.
Be Blessed
