Transcript by WHY STUDY ROMANS? • You must know that the most important issue in your life is your relationship to the One Holy.

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WHY STUDY ROMANS?
• You must know that the most important
issue in your life is your relationship to
the One Holy Triune Creator God.
• If you think _______ is more important
(and you get it or don’t get it) then
studying Romans can seem irrelevant even irritating, and not life giving.
ROMANS CHAPTERS 1-8
• 1-3: Everyone’s problem
– The Law requires righteousness
– No one is righteous
– On Judgment Day you will go to hell forever
• 3-5 How your problem is resolved
– By grace through faith you trust that
– Christ paid the penalty for your unrighteousness
– Christ covers you with His righteousness
– You are justified, forgiven, & adopted by God
• 6-8 After your problem is resolved
– You have a new relationship to Christ
– You have a new relationship to the Law
CHRISTIAN LIFE BY GOD’S GRACE
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Chosen by God before creation
Born again by the Holy Spirit – Regeneration
Internally called by the Holy Spirit
Godly sorrow over their sin
Confession of their sin
Repentance from their sin
Faith/Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ
Justified, forgiven & adopted by the Father
Baptized to publically identify with Jesus Christ
Sanctified progressively by the Holy Spirit on earth
Glorified by God when in heaven
ILLUSTRATIONS OF CONVERSION
RELEASED FROM THE LAW
• Baptism: 6:1-14
• Slaves to a New Master: 6:15-23
• New Marriage: 7:1-6
RELEASED FROM THE LAW
• Christ has fulfilled the Law for you and
set you free from Law keeping to be
related to God
• You are now married to Christ
• You are filled with the Holy Spirit
• You are now free to live righteously by
the power of the Holy Spirit because you
love Christ
THEN – BUT NOW
• 7:5 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.
GOD’S REVEALED WILL: THE LAW
GOOD OR SINFUL?
• Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man who walks not in
the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the
way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and
on his law he meditates day and night.
• Psalm 119:97 Oh how I love your law! It is my
meditation all the day.
GOD’S REVEALED WILL: THE LAW
GOOD OR SINFUL?
• 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. 21 But now the
righteousness of God has been manifested
apart from the law
• Being under the Law:
– keeps us from marriage to Christ
– arouses sin in our lives that leads to death
– impedes life in the Holy Spirit
DEFENSE OF THE LAW 7:7-13
• 7:7 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.
DEFENSE OF THE LAW 7:7-13
• 7:11 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.
THE LAW EXPOSES SIN
• 7:7 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.”
PRIDE: EXTERNAL LAW KEEPING
• Philippians 3:4 though I myself have reason
for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else
thinks he has reason for confidence in the
flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth
day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of
Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law,
a Pharisee; 6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the
church; as to righteousness under the
law, blameless.
THE LAW AROUSES SIN
• 7:8 But sin, seizing an opportunity
through the commandment,
produced in me all kinds of
covetousness. For apart from the
law, sin lies dead.
THE LAW CONDEMNS SIN
• 7:9 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.
LAW VS. SIN
• 7:12 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.
A NEW RELATIONSHIP TO
THE LAW & CHRIST BY GRACE
• John 14:15 “If you love me, you will
keep my commandments.
21 Whoever has my commandments
and keeps them, he it is who loves
me. And he who loves me will be
loved by my Father, and I will love
him and manifest myself to him.”
PRINCIPLES
• God’s Law is holy, righteous, and good
• Without the Law you can be deceived that you
are doing fine
• You must know God’s law to be convicted of sin
• It is a blessing and a necessity to be convicted
of our sin
• You must know God’s law to love Christ, live for
Christ, and resist temptation by the power of
the Holy spirit
APPLICATIONS
• By God’s grace have you been convicted of
your sin, confessed your sin, repented of your
sin, and trusted in Christ to pay the penalty for
your sin?
• What are you doing with God’s Word now? (
not a legalist and not an antinomian)
• How does your life demonstrate that you love
Christ above all things?