Easy To Understand Bible Study

Paul is specifically talking to believers and not to unbelievers. Paul is stating that the carnal mind and walking in the flesh can come back to believers after conversion. Every Christian must properly know and understand their place in Christ, or else they are in danger of drifting back into the ways of the world.

Paul tells us that we must understand that when we come to Christ there should be a change in how we think, behave, and act. The person we were before Christ no longer rules us, and we should now think like Jesus.

All who are in Jesus Christ are not under the penalty of death. Those who understand what Christ did in the Cross will always have the help of the Holy Spirit

The law of sin and death lies in wait next to obedience. The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus is what guarantees victory, for if Gods Word is not followed, you can be assured that the law of sin and death will be present.

Paul was thinking that through his efforts to keep the law after coming to Christ would have been met with success. However, he quickly learned that it wasn't the case, for he had deceived himself into thinking such would happen. He was deceived into thinking that faith in Christ gave him the strength to keep the law. He quickly soon found out that God never intended for man to keep the law through his own strength

Means that the demands of the law were met in Christ. Since we were baptized into Christ when He died and rose from the dead, our faith in Him means that the demands of the law were met as well. In other words, the law of God demanded that all of it be obeyed, and failure meant death. Man could not keep the law, and was therefore under the penalty which was death (eternal death which is to be forever separated from God). Jesus Christ kept the law, and satisfied the curse of the law by offering himself as the sin offering (offering demanded by God for forgiveness of sins).

All the Promises of God are wrapped in Jesus Christ, and not only are they in Him, but everyone who has faith in Jesus has access to them as well. Truth is in Jesus Christ, and all the Promises are centered and fulfilled in Him.

The law of Moses is the law of God, which is good holy & righteous. It is so, because it came from God. Nothing God brings forth is evil, so God's law was not devised by man, and therefore it is good. Israel tainted the law, for they tried to make salvation out of its commandments, instead of following as intended. One could only follow the law as long as they were looking to God and the coming Messiah. In other words, the law defined & exposed sin, and show man that he is totally inadequate to obtain righteousness I his efforts, but show man that he needs to depend on God, which leads to fallen at the feet of God and ask for mercy, grace, & redemption.

Faith in Christ brings about the Righteousness of God, which cannot be attained by any other means. Righteousness is defined as God’s Divine standard, which is revealed to us by faith.

The entire ministry of Jesus Christ was done with Power, which was Power the world had never seen before. Paul states through the Grace of God he was called to be an Apostle, and it is through that same Grace we are called as well. God has invited us to come to repentance, and He has invited us to a special work.