Romans 7
Is a sense of failure a normative experience?
Burdened by all my weariness
Flesh and sin are in control
we’re stuck in the pit and hole
A defense for all my sin
If Paul failed then I cant win
Hold it back up to verse 12
In the passage lets delve
Law is holy and good from thee
A cause of death to me
Through the commandment sin is sin
My soul now like an evil twin
Sold into bondage as a slave
My body wants to misbehave
I dont do what I want
And what I want i cannot do
With my mind I worship God
but in my body sin it rules
Wretched man that I am
Before God only Jesus’ stands
Now there is no condemnation
For those who have salvation
New life in Christ
Bumpersticker a fish
Life in flesh is death
Go and give me a deathwish
Is this a normal struggle we see in chapter seven
Do we continue in sin and still make it to heaven?
Dont read ur own experience in the text
Lets look at this with our mindset fixed
This is not about a christian lifestyle
This view is different than macarthur and ryle
While we were in the flesh
The law aroused our death
But now we are released
We serve in spirit, flesh deceased
In the flesh verse five
Unpack vs seven to twenty five
Verse 6 Now free indeed
unpacked eight one through seventeen
Verse fourteen changes everything... i am flesh
But in 6 we are freed and slaves to Righteousness
But how when paul says he to sin is sold in slavery
Are we stuck in sin or is Christ to us savory
All of seven is focused on the law
Its not talking of our sin or the culmination of the fall
If this talking about our sin and how we live in it and fear it
Then why doesnt paul ever talk about the spirit?
Eight one moves from the law back to the remedy
Seven has no spirit but chapter eight is like ‘may it not be’
Chapter seven shows us total defeat
But chapter eight shows our enemies at our feet
Fourteen through twenty five stands alone as hopeless
Chapter eight shows the Spirit will help us to stop this
Heres the objections with out no real basis
Lets debunk it and face this
Present tense doesnt mean present time
Even with a new verb dont mean a new rhyme
Its Pauls past story in the present tense
Not a fleshly christian struggling on the fence
How can an unbeliever want to do whats good
How can he be sensitive to God’s Holy food
How can he hate sin, desire God, and love the law
Well look who we are talking about? The Jewish man named Paul
He was seeking out righteousness without the spirit
And in chapter seven its his past we hear it
Dont leave thinking we dont wrestle with our sin
When ur looking for our identity chapter seven isnt how we win
Let chapter seven remind us of our past
Remember that to Christ in Hope hold fast
Laws and rules will never from sin deliver
They make it worse like a virus and a fever
Let instead the laws and rules point us to the savior
The Cross and Gods grace is the only way for changed behavior
