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present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not...O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death...! 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" (Romans 7:18; 24-25).
All partakers of the Adamic earthly nature can give this testimony: "For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death" (Romans 7:5). Romans 8.3 tells us, "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh." Here the likeness means the form not the actu al sinful nature. "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace" (Romans 8:6).
th weakness of the earthly Adamic flesh, they transgressed e aw of God and were condemned to eternal death. God so loved His
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camedownandcalledAdamintheGardenofEden. He between Himself and Eve that He would send the prom- God. Here we must understand that the sin
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woman h^^ nrch, which is the proclaimer of salvation. Biologically, the
salvAH^ herself. In the same way, the Church has no seed of salvation unless it is received from God.
promised obey that
came for God to fulfill His promise. He sent His Word, the According to His plan, a virgin was found to believe and
conceive a man-child without human seed: "Who has the LORD revealed? For he
believed our
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he has no form orTom 'r and as a root out of dry ground:
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dwelt C C h h u u r S c h . , ! s h h e , s r e p r e s e n t a h v e o f t h e b o d y ^ o h f o wC s h r i t s h t a b t y M g i a v i r n y g i b a i r t t h y p t o e C o h f r i t h s t e .
litfjf'"'' 5-2-3 declares, "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be ue among the th^sands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth
mo me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose going forth have been from of a, from everlasting. Therefore will he give them up, until the time that
sne which travaileth hath brought forth." (See also John 1:14-18; Matthew 46-50; Hebrews 7:1-3.) Concerning the inherited sin, Mary was not free