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inner man, but I see a different law in my mem bers, warring against the law of my mind and making me a captive in the law of sin which is in my members." In 7:25 he says, "With the mind I myself serve as a slave the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin." We all need to be freed from sin, the law, and the flesh, all of which came as a result of our fall.
WALK ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT
As we have seen, Romans 5 says that we were constituted sinners. As such sinners, we have the problems of sin, the law, and the flesh. We are freed from sin by having our old man as the sin ning person crucified. We are freed from the law by having our old man as the self-assuming hus band crucified. The way to be freed from the flesh is found in Romans 8, where we see that we are freed from the flesh by walking accord ing to the spirit. When we walk according to the spirit, we are spontaneously freed from the flesh. If we do not walk according to the spirit, we are still in the flesh, although we may be free from both sin and the law. The only way to be freed from the flesh is to be in the spirit and to walk according to the spirit.
In chapters five through eight, we have four