So there it says your flesh walks in the law of sin. Then Paul progresses from playing the part of a wretched sinner in Romans 7:24 (KJV) [SUP]24 [/SUP] O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? to a promise of deliverance from the inner war. We need all thew words of 25. Romans 7:25 (KJV) [SUP]25 [/SUP] 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.
So now comes Jesus finding me ready to be delivered from my flesh serving sin, which is not how God wants to leave us.
Romans 8:1 (KJV) [SUP]1 [/SUP] There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Suddenly he is delivered from the flesh serving the law of sin, now walking in the Spirit. The flesh is now dead to the law of sin.
Romans 8:2 (KJV) [SUP]2 [/SUP] For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
All of the two chapters deals not with what the law did to us (the law is holy) and with being delivered from the effect of the knowledge of sin by the Mosaic law of sin and death, which makes sin come alive is us, into the law of life in Christ. Starting at 7:1 confirms the actual topic.
By saying you like being in the situation described in chapter 7, then you would have to be still under sin coming back from the grave. Chapter 8 is how the New Covenant changes us out of the Rom 7 quagmire. An example of the extent of the change is Romans 8:13-14 (KJV) [SUP]13 [/SUP] For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. [SUP]14 [/SUP] For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
The flesh no longer ruling or behaving on it's own cognizance by killing deeds of the flesh through the Spirit. That's necessary to live, not die spiritually. In other words, salvation is not based on something we do one day in our lives, but what we hold onto all our days. We changed masters, so we let our new master rule, which is heavy on ridding us of sin. Anyone with a body that pursues sin will not live eternally. Believing you can have a saved spiritman while the flesh is rebellious is not scriptural. We can't excuse the spirit because of misbehavior of soul and/or body. The body does nothing without the soul directing. A soul without a functioning spirit won't ever stumble upon righteousness, as without Christ our spirit is dead to God, can't "know" what it ought to know. Once the spirit of man is made alive by the presence of the Holy Spirit in us, it will then "know" spiritual things, then influence the soul (mind) to use the body to the glory of God.
If that person later falls into temptation, then pursues living according to the flesh once again, the incorruptible seed of the Holy Spirit will not remain. God departs from sin. So choose to remain born again by the way of the Bible.
1 Peter 1:23 (KJV) [SUP]23 [/SUP] Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
"Born again" comes by the word of God, like faith comes by the Word of God. Continue on, Christians, feeding spirit, soul and body with much reading of the Word of God, doing the word you learn. That enables us to kill the deeds of the flesh, then produce fruit of the Spirit more and more.
Is that works unto salvation? No. That is what a regenerated believer does rather than do unrighteousness. It is our lifestyle that proves which master is really our master.