# What I Hate, That Do I

## Metadata
- Author: [[Jimmy Swaggart]]
- Full Title: What I Hate, That Do I
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- While one’s will is most definitely important, it is still impossible for the believer to live for God in that fashion, at least successfully; there will be nothing but acute failure. ([Location 25](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09RQ489YG&location=25))
- Romans 7 is at least one of the most important chapters in the entirety of the Word of God respecting the Christian walk and its victory, or the lack thereof. Every single believer who has ever lived must go through the scenarios of Romans 7; it is not possible for it to be otherwise. The fact is that it is not intended for the believer to stay there any length of time, but the sad truth is that most believers, even those who truly love the Lord, have remained in Romans 7 all of their lives, and that is the tragedy. ([Location 43](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09RQ489YG&location=43))
- That which makes the teaching in this chapter so important to the believer—and it is written to believers exclusively—is because Paul had some of the same problems that all of us have or have had. He thought surely after he was saved and baptized with the Holy Spirit that he could live a victorious, overcoming Christian life, but to his dismay he found that he could not, at least with the light that he then had. That same situation caused him to exclaim, “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” (Rom. 7:24). ([Location 53](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09RQ489YG&location=53))
- In Romans 7, the Holy Spirit through the apostle outlines the reason for the failure of the believer. Sin is not to have dominion over us, yet sin does have dominion in the lives of virtually all Christians. Romans 7 tells us why, and, if that is correct, and it is, then we are made to understand how vitally significant this chapter really is. ([Location 61](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09RQ489YG&location=61))
- Let us say it again: whether it is the law of Moses, which it isn’t in most Christian lives; laws we devise ourselves, or laws devised by some church—this is most definitely the problem. ([Location 67](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09RQ489YG&location=67))
- Instead of accepting and using the law of Moses as it was intended by God, they attempted to make salvation out of its Commandments, which God never intended. ([Location 79](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09RQ489YG&location=79))
- In effect, Jesus was the giver and keeper of the law, and actually the only man who ever lived who did keep it, and kept it perfectly. ([Location 85](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09RQ489YG&location=85))
- Whether it is the law of Moses or a law of our own devising, man seeks to try to satisfy his spiritual needs by his own efforts. He tries to do it with laws of one kind or another, exactly as Israel did with the Mosaic law. There is an innate spirit in man, even in believers, that is loath to admit to himself or to God that he cannot solve his own spiritual problems. All of this is a result of the fall. ([Location 90](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09RQ489YG&location=90))
- Satan is very content for man to be religious—even very religious—for the simple reason that he knows there is no victory or salvation in that sector. He even encourages these efforts. But the moment the believer begins to depend totally on Christ, that’s when the war begins. Strangely enough, most of the opposition will come from fellow Christians. That is sad, but true! ([Location 106](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09RQ489YG&location=106))
- One might ask, “If the law of Moses stimulated sin in God’s people, how could it be called good?” Once again, the problem was not in the law, but in the corrupt nature of man. The Lord desired to show man just how corrupt he really was, and this was the best way to portray that fact. ([Location 129](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09RQ489YG&location=129))
- While it is true that God did not give man any power to keep the law, He did this for a purpose and reason. Man’s problem has always been pride, which was actually the cause of the fall in the garden of Eden. If God had given man the power to keep the law, he would have been lifted up further in his pride and seen less need of God instead of more, which was the intention to begin with. The law was intended to show man his inability, his weakness, and his efforts to be woefully insufficient, not increase his problem with more pride. ([Location 143](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09RQ489YG&location=143))
- This presents the very opposite of Romans 7:2. Here, Paul uses the analogy of the husband not dying, but rather his wife leaving him and marrying another man. Divorce is not actually mentioned, so in a sense this means she now has two husbands—the law and Christ. Really, this the gist of the entire analogy. Paul is using this to portray the believer attempting to serve two husbands—the law and Christ— which is a literal impossibility, but where most believers find themselves. ([Location 184](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09RQ489YG&location=184))
- Please understand, anything in which we place our faith, irrespective as to how scriptural it might be in its own right, God looks at it as spiritual adultery; we are in effect serving two masters. The believer is to look exclusively to Christ and the cross and nothing else. ([Location 190](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09RQ489YG&location=190))
- The believer must understand that all victory and all righteousness come exclusively by and through the cross of Christ. In other words, no believer, no matter how zealous he or she might be, is going to find victory outside of the cross of Christ. The things that are done may bless the person greatly, but it won’t give him victory. ([Location 201](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09RQ489YG&location=201))
- Let us say it again: victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil, can come only by the cross of Christ, which demands that our faith be exclusively in Christ and the cross, and maintained exclusively in Christ and the cross. As well, we are given righteousness simply because of our faith in Christ and the cross and by no other means. ([Location 205](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09RQ489YG&location=205))
- We have all been taught greatly and grandly of the price paid by Christ at Calvary regarding the terrible sin debt, which makes it possible for the believing sinner to be saved. But most of us have heard very little about the second benefit of Calvary, which is the victory won by Christ in destroying the dominion of sin over the believer. ([Location 220](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09RQ489YG&location=220))