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This question was posted to our website and I'll answer here because it applies generally:
Toward the end of Session 3 there was a Poll survey about words people use to minimize sin. I chose "other" but type too slow to give the words I find myself thinking. It's not me, my sinful nature is at fault. Even Paul says in Rom. 7:17, "So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me." I know my thinking is wrong, but it would be beneficial to have more than saying it is wrong. I believe that I am responsible for what my sinful nature does, but that very nature from time to time keeps throwing out that excuse. Can you discuss this in Session 4?
Thank you for this question! It is unlikely we'll be able to address your question thoroughly during lesson 4 because it's packed content for that lesson. But, you ask a great question common to all of us!
Reading beyond your reference to Romans 7:17, we see that Paul also struggled with this same reality, calling himself a wretched man! We are incapable in our own power to resist these sinful desires of our old nature. In our new nature we recognize our faults. Our privilege as God's children is to confess those sins (lesson 2) and receive God's forgiveness (lesson 3) remembering the promise of 1 John 1:9 Then we can praise God along with St Paul in the words of Romans 8:1: "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."
Thank you for your answer to my question coming out of Rom 7:17, to read further in that chapter 7 - then confess this as sin I am responsible for - request and receive forgiveness as in I John 1:9 and finally rejoice in the Gospel victory of Rom. 8:1. It is a process of several steps - Law and Gospel, not just stopping with saying it is wrong at step 1. That is very beneficial.