Romans 7 Spiritual Struggle Portrayed via Music and Lyrics: Ren- “Hi Ren”

Michael A

22 hours ago

Ren – Hi Ren (Official Music Video); from the YouTube site, Ren.

I’m posting this video because it is the best video I’ve ever seen for portraying the Roman 7 spiritual struggle. I stumbled upon it while looking at music reviews on YouTube.

Around the middle of the song, you will hear the voice of the tempter. At the end of the song, he spends about a minute explaining the spiritual struggle that had previously taken place in his life.

He certainly is a very talented musician, to say the least.

There are some F-bombs in the song, warning for those who don’t want to subject themselves to foul language.

I do not want to critique or praise anything except the element of spiritual struggle in the song. I have to also say that his manner of portraying the spiritual conflict was moving; you get the idea that he did live it and has learned to put words to the struggle.

I think it is very useful to see the impact of this struggle in his life, as all born-again believers are living such a struggle every day. Not that everyone’s struggle could be portrayed with such intensity, but the inner warfare is there, sometimes intense and sometimes subtle….

As he struggles, each side of himself speaks, when he turns either right or left. When turning to his left, his negative side is speaking; when he turns to his right, his better self is speaking in its struggle to do right.

Please consider the following words from Romans before hearing the song. These words tell us that the purpose of God’s commandments is to reveal our sinfulness to us and to show us that we are helpless to make ourselves good in our own strength.

Only by faith in Christ, and by His righteousness will we be free of sin, at the time of glorification. Until then, forgiveness via the gospel of Christ, the imputation of His righteousness to us, and the guidance of His Spirit is our only hope.

That is, we do not have to go through our lives burdened by guilt and shame; we can give that to Christ via repentance and personal confession in prayer. By doing so, we can know forgiveness from the only One who can give it.

Romans 3:20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

[No one can make himself righteous by keeping the 10 commandments…. The fact that we violate about every command every day enables us to see that such is impossible – if we have not, for example, redefined sin….]

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified [made righteous] by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith….

Romans 7:20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.

Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 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! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. [See Romans 8 for the answer.]

Reviews of the song at YouTube:

The Charismatic Voice: this lady analyses songs from the perspective of her knowledge of voice and musicality. Her reviews are helpful. I was looking at her review of Chicago’s 25 or 6 to 4, and afterwards stumbled onto this song.

Her link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twUZCctHwJU

Search link to reviews on the song:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Reviews+on+the+song+Hi+Ren

Links and narrative that accompanied video at YouTube

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http://www.sickboi.co.uk Ren – Hi Ren (Official Music Video) Hi Ren is out now on all streaming platforms https://renmakesmusic.lnk.to/hiren

Creating this song wasn’t easy, but I’m so proud of how it turned out.

Want to say a big thank you for everyones support over the years. During the years trapped inside with chronic health problems the main thing that kept me going was a belief that one day I would come out the other side, and be able to achieve success through music. I don’t have a label, and sometimes pushing these things as hard as I want becomes a massive challenge, and I find myself frustrated that there aren’t enough hours in the day to push it as far as I want to.

I would love to ask a favour to anyone who has ever enjoyed my music over the years, and it will only take a few minutes of your day.It would mean the world to me if you shared ‘Hi Ren’ as much as you can, over social media platforms, with friends, over email.

Together, and with your help I can hopefully reach people all over the world, and get one step closer to the dream I always had!

Thank you so much for the support so far!

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