Have you ever felt like no matter how hard you try, you just can't seem to get victory? You've prayed more. Tried harder. Made new commitments. Promised God you would do better. Yet somehow you find yourself right back in the same struggle.
That's exactly where Romans 7 leaves us.Paul cries out, "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" (Romans 7:24). Romans 7 is the cry of a defeated believer trying to overcome sin through self-effort.But thank God, Romans 8 follows Romans 7. The answer is not more willpower. The answer is not more rules. The answer is not more religious activity. The answer is Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.
The Holy Spirit does not work through our self-effort. He works through what Christ accomplished at Calvary. When our faith remains anchored in the finished work of Jesus, the Spirit supplies the victory we could never produce ourselves.
Listen and discover why the answer has never been found in trying harder—it has always been found at the Cross.
From Series: "Lighthouse Sermons"
Sermons from Pastor Farrell Wilson at the Lighthouse Church in Grenada Mississippi.
