Carrying Body
The Roman punishment of murder shows symbolically the problem with what Christians drag around.
O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
The “body of death” of the sin capacity pictures us dragging around a corpse on our human body all day. There was a Roman system of punishment whereby the authorities chained the body of the murdered person to the murderer. The murdered body stayed chained to the murderer as long as he lived. And it ate away at his flesh, ultimately killing him.
In the same way, this corpse constantly interferes with our highest desire to please God. The sin capacity is a deadly weight.
Christians not only drag that carcas around, but also their cross, daily.
Therefore we do not lose heart... our inner person is being renewed day by day. 2 Corinthians 4:16
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