Wednesday: W25

Training:
WOD 1:

Clean Pull:
4 x 5 x 245#
1 x 5 x 265#

Power Clean:
3 x 5 x 155#

10-1:
DB Swings (70#)
Pullups
Hanging leg raises

WOD 2:
Sprint work:
2 x 300 m shuttle runs

Run:
40 minutes (easy pace)

Notes:
Clean pulls are coming along nicely. I went up on the last set and only had a tough time with last rep. I have not done power cleans in a couple of years so decided I would ease into them. The 10-1 work at the end was a grip killer.


Daily Reading:
Romans 7-8

1.) Lessons:

• 7:5-6 - For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
• 7:7 - I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law.
• 7:11 - For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.
• 7:15-25 - I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature[d] a slave to the law of sin.
• 8:5-8 - Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
• 8:13 - For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
• 8:18 - I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

2.) Applications:

• It is my natural inclination to sin and go against the law of God.
• Sin is deceiving.
• There is nothing good that lives in me. I have good intentions and good desires but I lack the strength to do what is necessary. I do what I do not want to do. The laws of God and my sin nature are constantly at odds with one another. What a wretched man I am.
• I am a slave to God but have also found myself to be enslaved to my sin.
• When I live according to my sin nature I am doing what is against God. My mind is controlled not by God but by passions and emotions that will lead me to death. If I continue to live according to my sin nature I will be put to death and my sins will ultimately consume me. 
• My present sufferings are not worth comparing with the future glory that will be revealed if I follow Gods law and turn my back on the sin that entangles me.