Rom 7:18 (NIV) I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. You are trying to win over your issues with anger and something is fighting you. Let Jesus take you through this verse to help you understand what it is the solution has to be applied to.

• I know that nothing good lives in me: This has to be qualified because YOU have the Holy Spirit living inside you. 1 Cor 6:19 (NIV) Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, Who is in you, Whom you have received from God? You are not your own. If you don’t understand that there are three parts to you, then when the words you, I, me, and my are used, you will lump them all into one person. But, if you can, for this study, accept there are at least two parts to you, then you will know what is good about you and what is actually bad.


• I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature: Now you need to know where your sinful nature is. Rom 7:5 (NIV) For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death. If you are going to be healed from your anger issues, then you must accept that the reason you are going through what you are going through has it basis flowing from your body.


• For I have the desire to do what is good: You have the desire to live the victorious Christian life; but, for some reason you haven’t been able to do what is good. You haven’t been able to fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses (1 Tim 6:12). So, in order for you to fight the good fight of the faith, you must know where your enemy is so you can attack it.
  
  If you have the desire to do what is good and you know that desire isn’t in your body, then where is it? Rom 7:22 (NIV) For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; There YOU are! The real you has finally been identified. And, attitudes of the real you have been established. YOU delight in God’s law!
  
  Jesus and you aren’t having a problem with anger because of YOU. You and Jesus are having the problem because of your body. It has been given a voice and an expression of its animalistic desires on all humans. When Adam and Eve sinned by eating from the Tree Of The Knowledge Of Good And Evil, that fruit gave their body a powerful influence on their spirit or inner being (Genesis 3:1-11). Then as they had children, they passed that sinful nature to them. Then it went through them to all humans thereafter.


• But I cannot carry it out: Why can’t you win over your struggles with anger? Romans 7:22-23 explain why: For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; BUT, I see ANOTHER law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. Most Christians would NEVER guess that the reason they are going through something like anger issues was because of their body; don’t even know that they and their body are separate.

Rom 7:22-23 (NIV) For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; BUT, I see ANOTHER law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.

• For in my inner being I delight in God’s law: This attitude you have in your spirit (inner being) is your evidence that you are a TRUE Christian. People who call themselves Christians but aren’t, they LACK the WANT and HATE of Romans 7:15. For what I WANT to do I do not do. There are three types of people who are not doing righteousness. New and untrained Christians aren’t; the new ones aren’t because they haven’t had enough time to learn how. The untrained ones aren’t because the mature Christians haven’t done their job and trained them. BUT, there are also a group who call themselves Christians who do NOT want to do righteousness and DO want to sin. Even though they call themselves Christians, they fail the test of Romans 7:15.
  
  But what I HATE I do. This is the way the TRUE Christian feels about sin. If that ever changes, RUN to God and ask Him to put that hatred back in your heart toward sin. The WANT and the HATE of Romans 7:15 is vital to your healing from your issues with anger. You may not be treating yourself, other people, and God’s plan the way you should; but, if you have a deep desire to change, that is a big requirement of God.


• BUT, I see ANOTHER law at work in the members of my body: This is what you are experiencing as you battle with anger issues. If it doesn’t get what it wants, it will try to punish you. It will send you feelings through your heart that will cause pain and discomfort. It will try to get its own way at all costs. It doesn’t care about you the spirit person; it doesn’t care about right and wrong; it doesn’t care about who it hurts; it doesn’t care about God or His plan. If it isn’t getting what it wants, it is willing to shut down your whole emotional, relational, financial, physical, and spiritual system.


• Making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members: The difficult and disappointing thing about your body is how much it is able to control you. It can make you a prisoner to all kinds of difficulties, struggles, and problems that you can’t seem to get rid of.
  
  Jesus, however, is asking you to join Him and start following His leadership and training. He is going to ask you to do somethings with your body that is new to you. It will take you into the spiritual realm. At first, you will look at them and not know what to do with them. And, even though you have already been exposed to them, they will seem foreign to you. But, don’t despair, Jesus will guide you in and through the procedures successfully.