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.
The Law Revealed the Real Me
FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 7:7: What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
Living in the Newness of the Spirit
FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 7:5–6: For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what …
Married to Another
FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 7:4: Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.