Reformed Kenya

Rom.7.22 - For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, Rom.7.23 - but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Rom.7.24 - Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Rom.7.25 - Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. I have struggled with this chapter for some years now. However, I conclude that in believers there is truly a battle within between the part of them that knows what is good and the part of them that sin dwells. The part of them that sin dwells is so powerful that it many times will render them paralysed in doing good.  Paul is here clearly speaking about his walk. By now he has done a number of missions. Established a number of churches. Performed a number of "impossible" miracles. His depth in the word is beyond many of hi...

Rom.4.17 - as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"--in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. Paul's speaks of God giving life to the dead and calls into existence things that do not exist.The later verses Paul continue to show how God still promises Abraham to be the father of many nations despite him not having a son of his own, his body "as good as dead" and his wife barren.  God promises Abraham to be a father of many nations as if to call into existence a thing that has no vestige of existence. Abraham's body was "as good as dead" and Sarah barren but still promises nations to Abraham as if to say He is able to give life to Abraham's "dead body" and Sarah's barrenness and whatever He calls into existence (nations), He will actualize. Paul has spent the first three chapters of Romans accusing humanity as s...