Introducing the Holy Spirit
FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 8:1: There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
My Deliverer has Come
FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 7:24–25: O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law …
Two Laws are at Work in Me
FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 7:22–23: For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is …
Desperate for Jesus
FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 7:19–21: For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do …
We Need His Spirit
FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 7:18: For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.
The Internal Battle
FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 7:15–17: For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with …
The Carnal Predicament
FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 7:14: For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
The Sinfulness of Sin
FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 7:12–13: Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, …
The Law is Perfect, Man is Not
FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 7:10–11: And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.
The Law Awakens Sin
FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 7:8–9: But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.