Romans

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, …

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Romans

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.

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Romans

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.

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Romans

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.”

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Romans

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 …

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Romans

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.

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Romans

Released from the Law

FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 7:1–3: Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law …

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Romans

The Best Gift

FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 6:23: For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Romans

Your Fruit to Holiness

FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 6:22: But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.

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Romans

A Heart for God

FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 6:20–21: For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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