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Romans 7: 25
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.
Christ’s Conquest - 7: 25
...Thanks be to God
through Jesus Christ
our Lord!
Thank you, Lord.
The answer is in your
son!
Christ’s Conquest (7:25)
Summary: The moment that Paul acknowledges
his own helplessness, the answer to his
predicament presents itself: The only One who
can help him is Jesus Christ.
Characters: Paul looks up and sees the Lord
Jesus standing next to him. He realizes this is
the answer to his problem. Death, who governs
this world (including the religious world) through
the “law of sin and death”, looks on with shock as
he realizes that he is losing his victim.
Christ’s Conquest - 7: 25
...Thanks be to God
through Jesus Christ
our Lord!
Christ’s Conquest - 7: 25
...Thanks be to God
through Jesus Christ
our Lord!
Romans 7: 7-24
7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not
been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known
what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."
8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced
in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.
9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came,
sin came alive and I died.
10 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.
11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived
me and through it killed me.
12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was
sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might
be shown to be sin, and through
the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want,
but I do the very thing I hate.
16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.
17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I
have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep
on doing.
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.
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?
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
7: 15B ...For I do not do
what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate.
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
7: 15B ...For I do not do
what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate.
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
7: 15B ...For I do not do
what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate.
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
7: 15B ...For I do not do
what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate.
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
7: 15B ...For I do not do
what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate.
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
7: 15B ...For I do not do
what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate.
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
7: 15B ...For I do not do
what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate.
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
7: 15B ...For I do not do
what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate.
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
7: 15B ...For I do not do
what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate.
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
7: 15B ...For I do not do
what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate.
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
7: 15B ...For I do not do
what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate.
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
7: 15B ...For I do not do
what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate.
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
7: 15B ...For I do not do
what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate.
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
BYE,
Saul!!
The Law’s Lethal Lesson (7:7-24)
Summary: Paul tells the story of how he found the tenth
commandment impossible to keep, even though he
tried his very best. This made him realize that the
law is spiritual, but that he is unspiritual.
Characters: Paul waves his legalistic past and
his old pharisaical self goodbye. He has
discovered that he cannot save himself
and that he needs the Lord Jesus. As
with the dead Unito, Paul has died to
the Law. He now serves in the “new
way of the Spirit and not in the old
way of the written code”.
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
7: 15B ...For I do not do
what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate.
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
7: 15B ...For I do not do
what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate.
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
Liberated from the Law
7: 1-6
...the law is binding on a
person only as long as
he lives...
...if her husband dies, she is
free from the law, and not... an
adultress
7: 2-3
Romans 7: 1-6
1 Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the
law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?
2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband
dies she is released from the law of marriage.
3 Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her
husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries
another man she is not an adulteress.
4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that
you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we
may bear fruit for God.
5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at
work in our members to bear fruit for death.
6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that
we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
Liberated from the Law
continued (7:2-3)
Summary: Lamentia the widow and her son Grievius see the
dead Unito’s coffin and are reminded of the death of Lamentia’s
husband some time ago. They are still sad, but Lamentia has
since met Matrimonos who will be a good husband and father
to Grievius. If she gets married to him, she will not do wrong as
her first husband is no longer alive.
Sob...
...if her husband dies, she is
free from the law, and not... an
adultress
7: 2-3
Liberated from the Law
7: 1-6
...the law is binding on a
person only as long as
he lives...
Liberated from the Law (7:1-6)
Summary: The law does not apply to a dead person.
If a woman is married to a man, she is bound by
the law to stay married to him as long as he is
alive. If he dies, she is free from the law. In the
same way, our death in Christ has set us free from
the law.
Characters: Sermonus (from 2:19-24) realizes that
he can no longer enforce the law on Unito, as Unito has
died (See Chapter 6).
You’re not listening
to me, are you?
Liberated from the Law
7: 1-6
...the law is binding on a
person only as long as
he lives...
...if her husband dies, she is
free from the law, and not... an
adultress
7: 2-3
Liberated from the Law
7: 1-6
...the law is binding on a
person only as long as
he lives...
...if her husband dies, she is
free from the law, and not... an
adultress
7: 2-3