Sin Warring Against Us

I found a passage in Romans today which made me think. First I want to start with Romans 7: 15-25.

For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is 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 thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that 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 sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man 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 mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

First we need to backup and read a little bit further before this passage to understand where it's coming from.

But we can tell by this passage that it is saying that sin comes against us, and we try to do good, but then we do evil instead.

Romans 7: 7- 14

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

I feel like it's saying we hear something or read something then we turn around and start worrying that we will do that sin. Like maybe in church, and you sit and dwell on the subject after first hearing it and then you worry that, that particular sin they were talking about is something that you have to worry about for yourself? I know I have, I would hear the preacher and then worry that a certain sin was something I had to worry about when I had not even entertained the thought before that point.

This passage is saying to me that sin or satan is working against us, we may go to church and hear the word of God and hear the preacher preaching and then something he says may catch our attention and we worry we will commit that sin, or we sit and think on it, when we know deep down in our hearts that we had not committed the sin, but that satan was trying to come against us. Even in church satan tries to get us.

Hearing the preaching of the word is good. The bible isn't saying that, what it's saying is that satan or sin worketh against us all the time. In church or out of church we are always under spiritual warfare. So we need to be prepared to fight off sin and we need to be ready to fight satan, because he is always fighting against us. But we can take heart that we who are trying to live for God and do what is right, are not trying to do evil, but sin that worketh in us or against us. It is a spiritual warfare and we have to be ready to fight.