#WCS40-Indwelling SIn is a Beast

So as I read the Westminster Confession for Day 6, I couldn't help but be reminded of 2 Things; Romans chapters 7,8 and Paul's apparent recognition/struggle with Indwelling sin & Lecrae's song "Indwelling Sin."
Below, as you read day 6 for yourself, the section that jumped out is in red.  Through Paul's recognition of indwelling sin, he still had this to say: 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! (Continuing on into Romans 8)
Those of us in Christ can cry out the same as we mortify the deeds of the flesh by the Word and Spirit of God (Romans 8:13)
A great few books on the topic are "Mortification of Sin," by John Owen (deals w/ Romans 8), as well as "Pursuit of Holiness," by Jerry Bridges Romans 7) and Triumph over Temptation, also by Owen (more on Romans 7).  I'm sure there are others, more early works than late I think.  Anyway, enjoy Chapter 6 of The confession, and the song by Lecrae.  Happy Friday

CHAPTER 6
Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof

1. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin, God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.

2. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body.

3. They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed; and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.

4. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.

5. This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated; and although it be, through Christ, pardoned, and mortified; yet both itself, and all the motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.  (*See Romans 7:15-25, my note)

6. Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God, and curse of the law, and so made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal, and eternal.

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