Section 4
Whenever we make up our mind to keep the law, something in our flesh rises up, fights against the law of good in our mind, defeats us, captures us, and kills us. If we do not make up our mind to keep the commandments, this element in our flesh remains dormant. But whenever we make up our mind to do good in order to please God, this element in the flesh rises up, defeats us, cap tures us, and slays us. This causes us to suffer what Paul calls "this death."
In Romans 7 the problem is not hell or the Devil; it is "the body of this death." We have a body which has in it an awful thing called "this death." In order to exist, we need a body. Yet our body is no longer a pure body, but a terrible body, a body of this death. Whenever we decide to do good in order to please God, something in this body rises up to kill us.
THE LAW OF SIN AND OF DEATH
From 7:24 we go on to the matter of the law of sin and of death in 8:2. Although it is difficult to find terminology to express what this law is, it is easy to understand it according to experience. For example, it is easy to apply electricity in using household appliances, but it is difficult to define electricity. Instead of attempting to define the law