Matthew 6:13; Acts 12: 5-11
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In Peter’s story of being released from prison found in Acts 12:1-11, you can see that being delivered from evil doesn’t mean not getting into trouble in the first place. It means enduring hardship with confident faith that deliverance is coming, one way or another. Such confidence enables us to live without fear.
I once heard a story that comes from Billy Graham. The woman wanted to go to church but her unbelieving husband had had enough of her being so religious. So he took out a gun and met her at the door. He said, “If you leave, I’ll shoot you.”
Well, she calmly reached for her coat and started to head out the door anyway. He asked, “Where are you going?” She said, “If you don’t shoot me I am going to church. If you do, I am going to Heaven and that’s even better. So do as you like.” Well, she went to church. And the story goes that before that service was over her husband also appeared in the same service and gave his heart to the Lord. She was delivered from evil, wasn’t she? So was he.
I know this next one is a true story. Living as a Christian under Romania’s dictatorship posed extreme difficulties and dangers. Even though Rev. Joseph Tson had counted the cost and served the Lord and His flock faithfully, he feared the day that he would be called in by security. He knew the possibility of facing death was inevitable.
The day that Joseph feared arrived. Security officers arrived at his home one day and took him to their headquarters. He was instructed to sit on a chair and a gun was put to his head. “The choice is easy,” came the commander’s voice. “Deny Jesus or we pull the trigger.”
This was indeed the moment that Joseph feared all through his ministry. But suddenly the Spirit of the Lord filled his whole being. “If you kill me today you will do me a great favor. All my sermons that were recorded will be in great demand because I will be a martyr for Christ. You will help me greatly to share my messages. You will also help me to go to my Lord quickly!” Joseph fearlessly replied.
The officer dropped the gun. “You Christians are crazy,” he shouted and then commanded the officers to take Joseph back home. Joseph’s life was spared but in a sense he lost it that day. “Never again did I fear what man can do to me. Never again did I fear to lose my life,” Joseph concluded. That’s to be delivered from evil.
I have one more. This happened in my own car. Cathy Campobello, is an Evangelical Covenant missionary to Brazil? Kathy and I were driving her from Glenburn, ME to meet up with her ride to the next church, an hour away. So I was going down the highway on cruise control when slowly the car started speeding up, all by itself. When I noticed that cruise control was acting funny I pushed the button to shut it off. But it didn’t disengage. Hitting the brakes didn’t turn off cruise control either. The car continued to slowly accelerate. Going nearly 80 mph by now, I hit the brakes hard.
That slowed the car a bit but not the engine and it fought me all the way until the brakes were smoking! After that I put the car in neutral and shut off the engine. That way we were able to stop safely by the side of the road. I looked under the hood and found that the little braided cable had become frayed and stuck. That’s why I couldn’t turn it off. Fortunately it was easy to unhook it so that we could get back on the road, without cruise control. In talking it over with the missionary she said, “Think nothing of it. This is not the first time satan has tried to kill me.”
Some would wonder what’s satan got to do with it. The car malfunctioned that’s all. It depends upon your definition of evil and what you mean when you pray, “Deliver us from evil.” Some people’s definition of evil would be, “Anything bad that happens to me or to someone I care about.” Some people don’t believe the devil even exists.
Yes, it must be acknowledged, evil beings exist in our world, invisible to us, yet more powerful than we are, an evil spiritual force bent upon keeping all humans from believing in the God who loves us and would save us from destruction or eternal condemnation. This force is led by the devil himself, a being of glory and might who had been created by God, but who rebelled against God’s sovereign rule. This is the origin of satan, a fallen angel.
This line in the prayer, deliver us from evil, is designed to remind us that we are helpless against this cosmic power without our dependence upon God. But we do not need to fear him. In the book of James we are taught, “Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” As we have seen in every case along the lines of this prayer model, God is determined to be our main source of provision and power. This whole prayer has consistently been teaching us to depend on Him and be determined to obey Him.
Because it is important for us to remain alert to the sources and causes of evil in this world, I want to lead you through the three spheres of evil: The world, the flesh, and the devil.
In Christian theology, the world, the flesh, and the devil are often described as the three enemies of the soul. They are reflected in the Temptation of Christ in the desert: the world: to tempt God by casting himself off the pinnacle; the flesh: to turn stones into bread; and the devil: to worship Satan. The roots of this triad are possibly to be found in Jesus' parable of the Sower: the three scenes of unproductive soil represent "Satan" (birds eating the seed), shallow and unreceptive believers corresponding to weak "flesh," and the weedy soil represents the world, as in "the cares of the world and the lure of wealth.
These three are also present as a triad in the Letter to the Ephesians chapter 2, verses 1–3: "You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient. All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses..."
The “world, the flesh and the devil” is the order in which these spheres of evil are usually listed. But I think that is only because it is the easiest way to put the three words together in English. But that phrase is not in our Bibles. And we have already seen that the actual order of referring to them differs in the Scripture passages we just looked at.
I believe there is a theological order in which we should put these terms and that is how I want to talk about them. It’s the devil, the world and the flesh. We start with the devil because he is in fact, Biblically speaking, the beginning of all evil!
The evil from which we need to be delivered all started with the evil one called satan. He was a created angel called Lucifer, the angel of light. But he rebelled against God and led legions of angels to become demons with him. God however, in his wisdom and mastery over the situation, deemed it wise to refrain from striking back and destroying the rebellion at that time. God decided to let satan do his worst, and literally undo himself.
This must be the case since God the creator could have instantly wiped out satan the moment he began to even think of leading a rebellion. The omnipotent God knew what was up. He decided to let satan have his day and this would ultimately lead to the greater glory of God. It would have been is easier for an omnipotent God to simply overpower opposition and destroy an enemy. But God gets more glory by doing things the hard way. In His great patience, grace and love the Lord God must have decided to give satan a chance to try to prove he really was better than the God who made him. It is far more challenging and humble for God to let the opposition try to outwit Him, so that the rebel’s foolishness is eventually seen for what it is and God’s good wisdom is proven in the sight of all who witness it.
That is one explanation for why satan is allowed to exist at all. Ultimately, we don’t really know why satan exists, for who can fathom the mind of God if the Holy Spirit does not reveal it to us? But what we do know is that satan is real. But satan hides that fact. There are plenty in this world who don’t believe in the spirit realm or the existence of satan. The deceiver likes it that way so that he can freely operate in the lives of men and women under the cover of the darkness of their ignorance.
Satan is a schemer, employing whatever deceptions and lies he can to fulfill his destructive purposes and we humans are the main target because he hates the fact that God gives us so much, and the fact that God decided to honor humans with his very presence in the person of Christ to be the human who ultimately crushes satan’s head. Satan is our greatest enemy, bent on the total destruction of the human race and all God’s plans for having the world the way He wants it. But we have this Word from God, as Paul wrote it down in 2 Cor. 2:10-11, “Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, in order that satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.”
So, there’s the devil, and he is at work in this world. This deceiving schemer who hides behind a veil of dark unbelief has unfettered access to the hearts and minds of most of the world’s leaders, influencing them to do things his way simply because they have no idea that all their plans for how to run the world are actually hatched out of his own evil heart. Many of them don’t even believe he exists, so they assume that all their so-called great ideas must be their own. This is one very good reason why we are commanded in Romans 13 that we should pray for our leaders!
So, the world is full of evil because satan rules the leaders. There are wars and rumors of wars. There is all kinds of human misery caused by selfish, greedy people whose ambition is to become the richest or the most powerful person, willing to crush any other person who stands in their way. Justice is a sham in so many places. Religious freedom is so little tolerated in most of the world.
Beyond what satan has been able to do by manipulating people, the world is also full of evil because it is a broken place. All diseases, all natural disasters, anything that takes innocent lives, is an evil in this world and not a part of God’s original plan. It is a sad commentary that these events of nature get chalked up to what the insurance companies call acts of God, as if He is to blame for all the hard consequences wrought in this broken world as the result of Adam and Eve’s disobedience and rebellion, a rebellion in which we share through our own sinful natures.
God’s cosmic order is twisted in on itself and we are trapped inside. The whole creation groans to be redeemed and set free from its suffering. But until Jesus comes again, it is forced to serve the devil’s purposes, luring us into a false sense of security in earthly wealth, or a meaningless sense of accomplishment in fleeting fame, or else a worthless indulgence in sensual pleasures for their own sake. The world offers all these vain and empty promises that tempt us to turn away from our only true source of life and meaning, God and the Spirit.
So, there is the devil, and the world, two of the three spheres of evil. There is our ultimate enemy, the evil one and his demons, and there is the evil in the world because of that spiritual influence and finally, there is the flesh, the evil in our own hearts. That’s close to home. We live with that. This is because we are a product of this world. Born into broken world we are broken too!
There is evil in our own hearts. Satan did not create that in Adam and Eve. He merely exploited the possibility. When they took the bait, listened to the devil who enticed them with something of the world, they became evil too. James speaks much about this in his epistle. James 1:14 we mentioned last week. “Each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.” In chapter 2:3-4 he says, “If you show favoritism for the wealthy, have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?” In 3:5-6 he says, “Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.” Also, in verse 16, “where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.”
When we pray the Christian’s prayer asking God to deliver us from evil, we are asking God to deliver us from all of that, not just from mishaps and calamities. Ultimately, God will fully answer that prayer when Jesus comes again and all evil is taken out of the picture to produce pure, blissful shalom. It is also ultimately true that God has already delivered us from all evil through Jesus Christ’s victory on the cross and the more we live into that truth the more we will be free from the power of evil in our own hearts.
The deliverance we seek doesn’t always look the way we would have it though, for example, Paul described his missionary journeys as anything but smooth sailing! Consider, 2 Corinthians 4:7-12. First let me just read 7-9 to you. “We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.” Now let me show you what I mean. “We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, (that’s evil) but not crushed (that’s deliverance); [we are] perplexed which means we don’t know what to do. It is some kind of evil to just be at a loss for knowing what to do, but, Paul says we are not in despair (that’s deliverance); persecuted (that’s evil), but not abandoned (that’s deliverance); struck down (that’s evil), but not destroyed (that’s deliverance). Then in verse ten Paul says why God does things this way. “We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.” For all that he suffered, Paul would say that God always answered his prayer to be delivered from evil. And the ultimate deliverance came when Paul had finished the race and crossed the finish line to go home to be with Jesus.
So, there we have these three spheres of evil, the devil, the world, and the flesh. God created everything good. A good angel creature called Lucifer had an evil thought of taking over, decided to go for it, dragged a bunch of other angels down with him to become demons, tempted Adam and Eve to participate in the rebellion by a sort of a trick that they didn’t have to fall for, and the consequences of that cascaded into the brokenness of our whole world. We pray, God deliver us from all this!
And God has already promised us that he would and that he will deliver us from evil. The deliverance has begun. Jesus has come into the world to win us back to right relationship with God. If you really want to be delivered from evil and you pray this prayer, Father God, deliver us from evil, you have to start in your own heart. That’s what it comes down to.
Paul talked about this in Romans 7: 21- 25, “So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!”
Jesus is the one who delivers us from evil! God has already answered this prayer. And God also will keep on answering this prayer as we keep on depending upon him for it.
Listen Link: www.lcepc.org then look for “sermons” tab
In Peter’s story of being released from prison found in Acts 12:1-11, you can see that being delivered from evil doesn’t mean not getting into trouble in the first place. It means enduring hardship with confident faith that deliverance is coming, one way or another. Such confidence enables us to live without fear.
I once heard a story that comes from Billy Graham. The woman wanted to go to church but her unbelieving husband had had enough of her being so religious. So he took out a gun and met her at the door. He said, “If you leave, I’ll shoot you.”
Well, she calmly reached for her coat and started to head out the door anyway. He asked, “Where are you going?” She said, “If you don’t shoot me I am going to church. If you do, I am going to Heaven and that’s even better. So do as you like.” Well, she went to church. And the story goes that before that service was over her husband also appeared in the same service and gave his heart to the Lord. She was delivered from evil, wasn’t she? So was he.
I know this next one is a true story. Living as a Christian under Romania’s dictatorship posed extreme difficulties and dangers. Even though Rev. Joseph Tson had counted the cost and served the Lord and His flock faithfully, he feared the day that he would be called in by security. He knew the possibility of facing death was inevitable.
The day that Joseph feared arrived. Security officers arrived at his home one day and took him to their headquarters. He was instructed to sit on a chair and a gun was put to his head. “The choice is easy,” came the commander’s voice. “Deny Jesus or we pull the trigger.”
This was indeed the moment that Joseph feared all through his ministry. But suddenly the Spirit of the Lord filled his whole being. “If you kill me today you will do me a great favor. All my sermons that were recorded will be in great demand because I will be a martyr for Christ. You will help me greatly to share my messages. You will also help me to go to my Lord quickly!” Joseph fearlessly replied.
The officer dropped the gun. “You Christians are crazy,” he shouted and then commanded the officers to take Joseph back home. Joseph’s life was spared but in a sense he lost it that day. “Never again did I fear what man can do to me. Never again did I fear to lose my life,” Joseph concluded. That’s to be delivered from evil.
I have one more. This happened in my own car. Cathy Campobello, is an Evangelical Covenant missionary to Brazil? Kathy and I were driving her from Glenburn, ME to meet up with her ride to the next church, an hour away. So I was going down the highway on cruise control when slowly the car started speeding up, all by itself. When I noticed that cruise control was acting funny I pushed the button to shut it off. But it didn’t disengage. Hitting the brakes didn’t turn off cruise control either. The car continued to slowly accelerate. Going nearly 80 mph by now, I hit the brakes hard.
That slowed the car a bit but not the engine and it fought me all the way until the brakes were smoking! After that I put the car in neutral and shut off the engine. That way we were able to stop safely by the side of the road. I looked under the hood and found that the little braided cable had become frayed and stuck. That’s why I couldn’t turn it off. Fortunately it was easy to unhook it so that we could get back on the road, without cruise control. In talking it over with the missionary she said, “Think nothing of it. This is not the first time satan has tried to kill me.”
Some would wonder what’s satan got to do with it. The car malfunctioned that’s all. It depends upon your definition of evil and what you mean when you pray, “Deliver us from evil.” Some people’s definition of evil would be, “Anything bad that happens to me or to someone I care about.” Some people don’t believe the devil even exists.
Yes, it must be acknowledged, evil beings exist in our world, invisible to us, yet more powerful than we are, an evil spiritual force bent upon keeping all humans from believing in the God who loves us and would save us from destruction or eternal condemnation. This force is led by the devil himself, a being of glory and might who had been created by God, but who rebelled against God’s sovereign rule. This is the origin of satan, a fallen angel.
This line in the prayer, deliver us from evil, is designed to remind us that we are helpless against this cosmic power without our dependence upon God. But we do not need to fear him. In the book of James we are taught, “Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” As we have seen in every case along the lines of this prayer model, God is determined to be our main source of provision and power. This whole prayer has consistently been teaching us to depend on Him and be determined to obey Him.
Because it is important for us to remain alert to the sources and causes of evil in this world, I want to lead you through the three spheres of evil: The world, the flesh, and the devil.
In Christian theology, the world, the flesh, and the devil are often described as the three enemies of the soul. They are reflected in the Temptation of Christ in the desert: the world: to tempt God by casting himself off the pinnacle; the flesh: to turn stones into bread; and the devil: to worship Satan. The roots of this triad are possibly to be found in Jesus' parable of the Sower: the three scenes of unproductive soil represent "Satan" (birds eating the seed), shallow and unreceptive believers corresponding to weak "flesh," and the weedy soil represents the world, as in "the cares of the world and the lure of wealth.
These three are also present as a triad in the Letter to the Ephesians chapter 2, verses 1–3: "You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient. All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses..."
The “world, the flesh and the devil” is the order in which these spheres of evil are usually listed. But I think that is only because it is the easiest way to put the three words together in English. But that phrase is not in our Bibles. And we have already seen that the actual order of referring to them differs in the Scripture passages we just looked at.
I believe there is a theological order in which we should put these terms and that is how I want to talk about them. It’s the devil, the world and the flesh. We start with the devil because he is in fact, Biblically speaking, the beginning of all evil!
The evil from which we need to be delivered all started with the evil one called satan. He was a created angel called Lucifer, the angel of light. But he rebelled against God and led legions of angels to become demons with him. God however, in his wisdom and mastery over the situation, deemed it wise to refrain from striking back and destroying the rebellion at that time. God decided to let satan do his worst, and literally undo himself.
This must be the case since God the creator could have instantly wiped out satan the moment he began to even think of leading a rebellion. The omnipotent God knew what was up. He decided to let satan have his day and this would ultimately lead to the greater glory of God. It would have been is easier for an omnipotent God to simply overpower opposition and destroy an enemy. But God gets more glory by doing things the hard way. In His great patience, grace and love the Lord God must have decided to give satan a chance to try to prove he really was better than the God who made him. It is far more challenging and humble for God to let the opposition try to outwit Him, so that the rebel’s foolishness is eventually seen for what it is and God’s good wisdom is proven in the sight of all who witness it.
That is one explanation for why satan is allowed to exist at all. Ultimately, we don’t really know why satan exists, for who can fathom the mind of God if the Holy Spirit does not reveal it to us? But what we do know is that satan is real. But satan hides that fact. There are plenty in this world who don’t believe in the spirit realm or the existence of satan. The deceiver likes it that way so that he can freely operate in the lives of men and women under the cover of the darkness of their ignorance.
Satan is a schemer, employing whatever deceptions and lies he can to fulfill his destructive purposes and we humans are the main target because he hates the fact that God gives us so much, and the fact that God decided to honor humans with his very presence in the person of Christ to be the human who ultimately crushes satan’s head. Satan is our greatest enemy, bent on the total destruction of the human race and all God’s plans for having the world the way He wants it. But we have this Word from God, as Paul wrote it down in 2 Cor. 2:10-11, “Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, in order that satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.”
So, there’s the devil, and he is at work in this world. This deceiving schemer who hides behind a veil of dark unbelief has unfettered access to the hearts and minds of most of the world’s leaders, influencing them to do things his way simply because they have no idea that all their plans for how to run the world are actually hatched out of his own evil heart. Many of them don’t even believe he exists, so they assume that all their so-called great ideas must be their own. This is one very good reason why we are commanded in Romans 13 that we should pray for our leaders!
So, the world is full of evil because satan rules the leaders. There are wars and rumors of wars. There is all kinds of human misery caused by selfish, greedy people whose ambition is to become the richest or the most powerful person, willing to crush any other person who stands in their way. Justice is a sham in so many places. Religious freedom is so little tolerated in most of the world.
Beyond what satan has been able to do by manipulating people, the world is also full of evil because it is a broken place. All diseases, all natural disasters, anything that takes innocent lives, is an evil in this world and not a part of God’s original plan. It is a sad commentary that these events of nature get chalked up to what the insurance companies call acts of God, as if He is to blame for all the hard consequences wrought in this broken world as the result of Adam and Eve’s disobedience and rebellion, a rebellion in which we share through our own sinful natures.
God’s cosmic order is twisted in on itself and we are trapped inside. The whole creation groans to be redeemed and set free from its suffering. But until Jesus comes again, it is forced to serve the devil’s purposes, luring us into a false sense of security in earthly wealth, or a meaningless sense of accomplishment in fleeting fame, or else a worthless indulgence in sensual pleasures for their own sake. The world offers all these vain and empty promises that tempt us to turn away from our only true source of life and meaning, God and the Spirit.
So, there is the devil, and the world, two of the three spheres of evil. There is our ultimate enemy, the evil one and his demons, and there is the evil in the world because of that spiritual influence and finally, there is the flesh, the evil in our own hearts. That’s close to home. We live with that. This is because we are a product of this world. Born into broken world we are broken too!
There is evil in our own hearts. Satan did not create that in Adam and Eve. He merely exploited the possibility. When they took the bait, listened to the devil who enticed them with something of the world, they became evil too. James speaks much about this in his epistle. James 1:14 we mentioned last week. “Each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.” In chapter 2:3-4 he says, “If you show favoritism for the wealthy, have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?” In 3:5-6 he says, “Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.” Also, in verse 16, “where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.”
When we pray the Christian’s prayer asking God to deliver us from evil, we are asking God to deliver us from all of that, not just from mishaps and calamities. Ultimately, God will fully answer that prayer when Jesus comes again and all evil is taken out of the picture to produce pure, blissful shalom. It is also ultimately true that God has already delivered us from all evil through Jesus Christ’s victory on the cross and the more we live into that truth the more we will be free from the power of evil in our own hearts.
The deliverance we seek doesn’t always look the way we would have it though, for example, Paul described his missionary journeys as anything but smooth sailing! Consider, 2 Corinthians 4:7-12. First let me just read 7-9 to you. “We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.” Now let me show you what I mean. “We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, (that’s evil) but not crushed (that’s deliverance); [we are] perplexed which means we don’t know what to do. It is some kind of evil to just be at a loss for knowing what to do, but, Paul says we are not in despair (that’s deliverance); persecuted (that’s evil), but not abandoned (that’s deliverance); struck down (that’s evil), but not destroyed (that’s deliverance). Then in verse ten Paul says why God does things this way. “We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.” For all that he suffered, Paul would say that God always answered his prayer to be delivered from evil. And the ultimate deliverance came when Paul had finished the race and crossed the finish line to go home to be with Jesus.
So, there we have these three spheres of evil, the devil, the world, and the flesh. God created everything good. A good angel creature called Lucifer had an evil thought of taking over, decided to go for it, dragged a bunch of other angels down with him to become demons, tempted Adam and Eve to participate in the rebellion by a sort of a trick that they didn’t have to fall for, and the consequences of that cascaded into the brokenness of our whole world. We pray, God deliver us from all this!
And God has already promised us that he would and that he will deliver us from evil. The deliverance has begun. Jesus has come into the world to win us back to right relationship with God. If you really want to be delivered from evil and you pray this prayer, Father God, deliver us from evil, you have to start in your own heart. That’s what it comes down to.
Paul talked about this in Romans 7: 21- 25, “So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!”
Jesus is the one who delivers us from evil! God has already answered this prayer. And God also will keep on answering this prayer as we keep on depending upon him for it.
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