Not only was the realm of the spirit and the soul invaded by sin, but the body, which was intended to be the spirit’s cordial home became its prison. That which was supposed to be spiritual tends to become sensual. God purposed the body to be the channel through which the spirit within man could touch the external world and bring blessing was now the instrument through which Satan reached the spirit with his defilement. God’s purpose for the body to be the channel through which the spirit within man could touch the external world and bring blessing, was now the instrument through which Satan reached the spirit with his defilement.

Romans 7:23

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

In the Apostle Paul’s exhortation to those who had accepted Christ as Savior, “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof,” (Romans 6:12) he implied that the body of the natural man had become sin’s territory. The members of the body became Satan’s tools and instruments of sin.

Romans 6:13

And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Romans 7:5

The human body, defiled by sin, is corrupt, dishonored, and weak and it is waiting for deliverance from the bondage under which it groans.

The human body, defiled by sin, is corrupt, dishonored, and weak and it is waiting for deliverance from the bondage under which it groans.

Romans 8:23

Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

2 Corinthians 5:4

For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.

Source “Life on the Highest Plane” by Ruth Paxson

Lord, we can all say “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?  I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!” (Romans 7:24-25)

In Him,

Marion