Sin is Ended [Advent: Day 15 of 28]

For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. For what I am doing, I do not understand, for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. For I joyfully concur with the Law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin. Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. - Romans 7:14-8:1

Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him. - Hebrews 9:28

Sinful flesh, O, how I hate thee! How I wish to obviate thee!
I am flesh, but Law is spirit, fighting evermore in me.
Sin there was, but Christ has killed it; yet I sin, though have not willed it.
O, how long must these things happen? O, how long must these things be?
For I do what I don't want to, turning from my Lord, from Thee;
No end to this can I see.

Yet, in Christ, my sin is ended, for it's not what I intended;
And, if not my will, no longer I who act so sinfully.
Now, in Christ, no condemnation for those who are new creation:
Christ has died to bear my sin, and now through Him I've been set free.
Twice He comes; salvation first, and second for the saved ones, we,
Waiting for our Lord to see.

[Black/Looking Forward to Christ's Second Coming]