Dear Fellow Believers,
Romans chapter 7 portrays a man struggling against sin. That man is the apostle Paul. Here, Paul states the astounding truth that he had not thought of sinning except the law said, "Thou shalt not sin." The law awakened the slumbering sin inside Paul and it caused him to sin more than if the law had never come. Why did God so arrange human nature that prohibitions make that nature want
to rebel? It is so that humans will learn to no longer be sin-conscious, but God-conscious.
And now, here is the truth of Romans, chapter 7—two-thousand years old—put into a modern context and employing a contemporary example—including a scientific explanation. It is always nice when science backs up Scripture. True science will always do this. Let God be true though every man a liar. And yet, occasionally, man taps into God's truth. And here it is from, of all places, an
article in Reader's Digest.
Rodney Paris did an amazing job finding videos of lots of people eating lots of cookies. It's a beautiful thing. The colors in these videos are bright and beautiful, and the truth that this video illustrates is more beauteous still.
I commend this 25 year-old message to you, thanking Mr. Paris for digitizing the original cassette tapes and bringing this truth to a new audience.
Yours from the edge of the bottom of the Floridian peninsula,
—Martin
