Transcript Faith Works: A Losing Battle Romans 7:1-25 BIG IDEA: Only _______ Jesus can _______ rescue me from sin’s control.

Faith Works:
A Losing Battle
Romans 7:1-25
BIG IDEA:
Only _______
Jesus can
_______
rescue me from
sin’s control
Law
____ can’t keep me
from sin,
Jesus can.
only ______
v. 1-6
So, my brothers, you also died
to the law through the body of
Christ, that you might belong to
another, to him who was raised
from the dead, in order that we
might bear fruit to God.
v. 4
So, my friends, this is something
like what has taken place with you.
When Christ died he took that entire
rule-dominated way of life down
with him and left it in the tomb,
leaving you free to “marry” a
resurrection life and bear
“offspring” of faith for God.
The Message
… 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.
v. 6
Sin ______________
manipulates
the law and
deceives me
__________
v. 7-13
Indeed I would not have known
what sin was except through
the law.
v. 7
But sin, seizing the opportunity
afforded by the commandment
produced in me every kind of
covetous desire.
v. 8
For sin, seizing the opportunity
afforded by the commandment,
deceived me…
and through the commandment
put me to death.
v. 11
Determination
_______________
isn’t enough
to free me
v. 14-25
I do not understand what I do. For
what I want to do I do not do, but
what I hate I do. And if I do what I
do not want to do, I agree that the
law is good. As it is, it is no longer I
myself who do it, but it is sin living
in me.
v. 15-17
. I know that nothing good lives in
me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I
have the desire to do what is good,
but I cannot carry it out. For what I
do is not the good I want to do; no,
the evil I do not want to do – this I
keep on doing. 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.
v. 18-20
We admitted that we were powerless
over our addiction, that our lives had
become unmanageable.
We came to believe that a Power greater
than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
We made a decision to turn our will and
our lives over to the care of God as we
understood Him.
“What a wretched man I am!” Who
will rescue me from this body of
death?
v. 24
I need a ________!
Rescuer
Thanks be to God –
through Jesus Christ
our Lord!
v. 25