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1. 1. The Law, Sin, and Salvation Produced by Bill Fritz for Adult Sunday School7/13/2019 1
2. 2. Scripture Reading Romans 7: 1- 6 Produced by Bill Fritz for Adult Sunday School7/13/2019 2 Freedom from the law, what does Paul mean?
3. 3. 7/13/2019 Produced by Bill Fritz for Adult Sunday School 3  Because believers in the gospel are dead in Christ and saved by grace through faith and nothing else, they were no longer servants to the law but servants to Christ Jesus. (See also Gal 2:20, Rom 6:13-14 NKJV)  Paul is speaking of two laws in verse 1.  The Law handed down to Moses to the Jews and the Roman law which both Jew and Gentile were subjected to (Holman Bible Staff).  In verse 2, is Paul saying that the Law governing marriage no longer apply?  Paul is giving an example of this particular Mosaic Law to reinforce his statement in verse one, that the believer has died in Christ, and therefore are dead to the Law.  God’s design was for a marriage to be dissolved only by death.  Paul speaks about the Law and divorce in verse 3. Was a person justified by the Law for divorcing their mate?
4. 4. 7/13/2019 Produced by Bill Fritz for Adult Sunday School 4  According to Scripture once God joins two persons in marriage they are to remain married for a lifetime.  However, God gave permission for men to petition for divorce under certain conditions (Mat 10:5, Mar 10:4-9 NKJV).  Questions remain about the dissolution of marriage.  Is infidelity a justifiable reason for divorce?  Jesus reluctantly gave the exception for infidelity or adultery. (See also MAT 5:32, Heb 13:4)  Some argue that God permitted Abraham to divorce Hagar, on the grounds of mental cruelty towards Sarah.  This action was before the Law of Moses.  God did not join Abraham to Hagar, she was a surrogate conceived by Sarah’s.  How about when one is a believer and the other is not?  1 Cor 7:10 does not condone this for a reason to divorce.  However, in 1 Cor 7:15 Paul states if the unbeliever departs then let the unbeliever go.  Paul writes a warning in his second letter to the Corinthians not to marry an unbeliever (2 Cor 6:14).
5. 5. 7/13/2019 Produced by Bill Fritz for Adult Sunday School 5 What about physical cruelty. Scripture is strangely silent on this issue.  Read Matthew 18:15-17.  Although these passages do not directly address physical cruelty between spouses, the procedure as outlined can be adapted to physical abuse in a marriage.  On a personal note: it seems getting married is to easy, and man’s law have made divorce just as easy. Although we are not under the Law of Moses we still must live in accordance to God’s will. Scripture states God said it is not good for man to live alone, and so He created Eve as a helper and companion (Gen 2:18). It is clear to me that God’s intent is for one man to marry one woman and remain married to that person for life (see also Mat 19:6). This does not mean to remain in the house of an abuser, instead follow the civil law.
6. 6. Scripture Reading Romans 7: 7 - 12 7/13/2019 Produced by Bill Fritz for Adult Sunday School 6  Does sin have an advantage in the Law?
7. 7. 7/13/2019 Produced by Bill Fritz for Adult Sunday School 7  In verses 1-7 Paul was speaking about marriage and specifically divorce. The Law was ridged.  Paul asks is the Law sinful?  No! The Law reveals the nature of sin.  The Adamic nature of man persists in humanity, and the Law forces mankind to face that nature as sin.  If it was not for the Law how would mankind know what sin is?  Paul gives an example of Law revealed sin - covetousness.  To covet is a principle sin, because it evokes other sin, this is true because all sin begins in the heart.  A person covets his neighbors goods might lead him to steals what he covets  A man covets is brothers wife and commits adultery with her. Jesus tells us that even to look at a woman with lust is guilty (Mat 5:8).  David coveted Uriah’s wife and subsequently had Uriah killed. (2 Samuel 11:17).
8. 8. 7/13/2019 Produced by Bill Fritz for Adult Sunday School 8  What does Paul mean when he says I was alive once without the Law?  Paul is referring to ignorance of the Law, in a time before he knew the Law, he thought himself to be righteous through the Law.  What a person fails to know in ignorance, can hurt him.  Not knowing covetousness was a sin would have opened the door to other sins, bringing the penalty for sin -death.  In verse 11, Paul draws the conclusion that because the Law revealed covetousness as a sin, it saved him from being lured into other sins, thereby saving his eternal life.
9. 9. Scripture Reading Romans 7: 13 - 20 7/13/2019 Produced by Bill Fritz for Adult Sunday School 9  Is it possible to be saved through the Law?
10. 10. 7/13/2019 Produced by Bill Fritz for Adult Sunday School 10  In verse 13, Paul is saying that before his conversion he thought he knew the correct interpretation of the law.  Through his pre-conversion mind, Paul’s interpretation of the Law would have been his death.  However, because of Paul’s enlightenment after his conversion, Paul now saw the Law as God had intended it to be, -a revelation of sin.  Therefore the Law was not sin in itself but rather man’s inability to abide in the Law because the Law is ridged, and the human race is flawed in sin.  There is no provision in the Law to cleanse a person of the Adamic nature, the root of sin.  In verse 14, why does Paul call the Law spiritual?  The origin of the Law was God and therefore His Law is spiritual.  The intent (spirit) of the Law demands are also spiritual  Although different religious groups interpret the basic Law (The Ten Commandments) slightly differently
11. 11. 7/13/2019 Produced by Bill Fritz for Adult Sunday School 11 [Table accessed through http://biblescripture.net/Commandments.html] As shown in the table above the order is not the same and the words may differ but the spirit is the same. Paul continues in verse 14 by say “but I am carnal, sold under sin”.  Paul is pointing to himself as a mortal human being, fallen as is the rest of humanity.  As a result of his fallen state, his fleshly desires and his spirit are at odds with each other (Holman & Staff).  Paul refers to this battle between the carnal and spiritual worlds of mankind again in Ephesians 6:12.  Paul was a slave to sin before his conversion and therefore he says he was sold to sin.  Now that Paul is no longer under the control of sin he has been bought from sin to life in Jesus (see also Philippians 1:21).
12. 12. 7/13/2019 Produced by Bill Fritz for Adult Sunday School 12  What is Paul telling us in verse 16?  The Law is good but the evil within mankind is to be hated.  The things Paul did prior to his conversion he now hates even though at the time he thought he was doing right.  Paul is also saying that the spiritual battle rages all around him and battling within him as well.  Today we as believers in the gospel of Jesus, fight the same battle, between the evil that is all around us, and the evil that attacks us personally.  In verse 17 Paul is saying that even after his conversion sin is within him, and does battle with his spirit, and it is not he who desires to sin, rather it is the sin that is within him.
13. 13. 7/13/2019 Produced by Bill Fritz for Adult Sunday School 13  In verse 18, Paul speaks about the carnal nature within him.  The flesh will always want to pleasure itself.  Your body yearns to satisfy its basic needs of thirst, hunger, and shelter, these desires of the flesh will always be with us. However, other temptations of the flesh can lead us to ignore the will of God. For example: you might wake up early enough on a Sunday morning to get to Sunday school but your fleshly body says “I am still tired, just a few more minutes of sleep.  It is your spirit that communes with the Holy Spirit after conversion, your body is still of the old Adamic nature, for of this earth we were formed and to it, we will return (Gen 2:7; Ecc 3:20 NKJV).  The tempting by your carnal body can cause the weakening of the spirit, which in turn aids the evil one in the spiritual battle you fight each day.  Paul wrote the Ephesians, telling them to put on the whole armor of God (Eph 6:11-13 NKJV).  This holy armor is to be put on every day. Therefore lean on the Holy Spirit the power of God within you.
14. 14. 7/13/2019 Produced by Bill Fritz for Adult Sunday School 14  What is Paul telling us about “will”?  The battle of two wills.  The will of the flesh. The will of the flesh is the Adamic nature we all share.  The will of the spirit.  “The conflict here graphically described between a self that "desires" to do good and a self that in spite of this does evil, cannot be the struggles between conscience and passion in the unregenerate [non believer], because the description given of this "desire to do good“ (Jamieson, Fausette, Brown)
15. 15. Scripture Reading Romans 21 - 25 7/13/2019 Produced by Bill Fritz for Adult Sunday School 15 What is the battle that rages within? Good VS Evil | Simpsons Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia
16. 16. 7/13/2019 Produced by Bill Fritz for Adult Sunday School 16  The most difficult battle we as believers face in the battle within, the spirit to do good versus the fleshly will not to do that good (do I give that panhandler money?).  Truly the spirit is willing by the body is weak (Mat 26:41). In reference to verse 21 Holman writes the following:  “In his inner self (Gk eso anthropos), in his deepest recesses, the believer delights in God's law, but he finds this alien power living within, waging war with him and taking him prisoner to the law of sin (Holman and staff, 2010).  What law is Paul speaking of in verse 22?  The law of God to do good, which is revealed in his spirit by the Holy Spirit.  However, Paul also acknowledges another law in verse 23  Paul once again is talking about his Adamic nature the law of the flesh.  In verses, 24-25 Paul tells of his contempt for this law of the flesh, while in verse 25 he thanks God for the deliverance from Jesus the Christ.
17. 17. 7/13/2019 Produced by Bill Fritz for Adult Sunday School 17 Bibliography Holman Bible Staff, Howard, Jeremy Royal, The HCSB Translation Team & Blum, Edwin (2010). HCSB Study Bible. B&H Publishing Group. Retrieved from https://app.wordsearchbible.com. Jamieson, Robert , A.R. Fauseset, David Brown. 1871. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible. Accessed May 04, 2018. https://www.biblestudytools.com/commenta ries/. All art was copied from bing search engine without copy write information available, and believed to be free domain.