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I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

Romans 7:14-15

A gloomy testimony of man, sold into slavery, whose natural master is sin. The slave is unable to free himself from the bondage of sin and damnation. He has neither the will nor the strength to do so. Hard to hear, but at the same time liberating. This explains our strange love for sin. When our condition becomes clear and our sinfulness oppresses us, we know that the Holy Spirit is at work in the depths of our hearts. Only he who has recognized his sins is able to believe them to be forgiven. Only the cross and atonement of Jesus can declare the sinner forgiven. The slave begins to be freed into the possession of his true Lord.