The Christian and a Rules Dominated Life (pt. 2)
Under Law: keeping rules so you can be righteous in God’s sight
Under Grace: ALL my righteousness comes as a gift from Christ
Romans 7:7a ESV
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means!
1st The Law is good
Romans 7:12 ESV
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
2nd The Law cannot save you
Romans 3:20 ESV
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his [God’s] sight…
3rd The Law cannot sanctify you
Romans 8:3 ESV
For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do…
Romans 7:7 ESV
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."
Romans 7:7-8 ESV
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." But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness.
Romans 7:8 ESV
But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law, sin lies dead.
Romans 7:9 ESV
I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.
Romans 7:9a ESV
I was once alive apart from the law…
Luke 18:10-12 NIV
“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’
Romans 7:9 ESV
I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.
Philippians 3:5-8a, 9 NIV
circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless. But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.
Romans 7:10 ESV
The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.
Romans 7:11 ESV
For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
Romans 7:11 ESV
For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
1. Sin deceives about righteousness
2. Sin deceives by making people think the Law is unreasonable
3. Sin deceives by making people think there are no consequences
4. Sin deceives by making people think God is against them
5. Sin deceives by making sin look attractive
Romans 7:12-13 ESV
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. 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.
