Emphasis Preaching Journal
Saint Paul is confessing that...
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Saint Paul is confessing that, left to his own powers, he cannot live a life that measures up to God's expectations of all of us. Try as he might to live a pure life, he would slip and fall back into sin. He confesses that he is a prisoner to sin, living in a body that is subject to temptation, with no way out of the sinful, human condition. He is like a man trapped in a sunken submarine. Some years ago a crew of sailors was trapped when their submarine's engines failed and the sub slowly sank to the bottom of the sea.