Thursday | 11 June 2026
As a result of ‘the other law’, our human infirmity is to misappropriate the word of God. We do not understand why we do this, for what we will to do, we do not practise. Instead, we find ourselves doing the things that we hate. Rom 7:15. This sickness, or infirmity, was established in us when man ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. On account of one man’s disobedience, we were all born with the motive to misappropriate the word for our own ends, which brings us into bondage to the law of sin and death. Rom 5:12. Rom 7:23. Apart from deliverance through the cross, every person walks, or lives, ‘according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience’. Eph 2:2. They remain in bondage to Satan and this infirmity on account of the fear of death. Heb 2:14‑15.
How do we misappropriate the word? We eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and add the Law to this knowledge. Instead of receiving the word from Christ’s hand and sitting at His feet, we take hold of the word with the law of our mind in order to energise and justify our judgements of others and ourselves. This makes us captive to the law of sin. Paul explained, ‘For I delight in the law of God according to 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.’ Rom 7:22‑23.
Once we are brought into captivity to the law of sin in our members, Satan and the demons gain power over us, using the power of the Law against us. We start to curse each other in anger, wrath, and the emotions of sin.
Further Study:
Romans 7
References:
Rom 7:15
For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practise; but what I hate, that I do.
Rom 5:12
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned.
Rom 7:23
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.
Eph 2:2
In which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience.
Heb 2:14-15
Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Rom 7:22-23
For I delight in the law of God according to 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.