Dear Steve,<br><br>Now that is a good question. Paul is saying that as an unregenerate man, he has a mental desire to follow Christ, but finds himself unable to do so (and probably hating himself for it). As many a person on this board has told me, there are many who are religious who are not really saved. And Paul's almost paradoxial position is one that I have witnessed myself many times, a person who with his mind serves the law of God (in acknowledging that it is good and right), but their flesh still serves sin (as do all unsaved). Paul calls it the law of sin and death. But in chapter 8, he goes on to say that the law of the Spirit of life in Christ has set him free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2), and that Christ's death accomplished what the law could not do.<br><br><br>In Christ,<br>Josh