Exodus 30:17-21

In our regeneration, the Holy Spirit has effectually set us free from sin and the law. He now indwells the believer and grants us the grace to kill sin. Paul contrasts the unregenerate person who is totally unable to come to Christ versus the regenerate person who has been set free by the Spirit. Pastor Sean spends the majority of time on Romans 8:13 discussing what it means to decisively put sin to death (mortification).

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In our regeneration, the Holy Spirit has

effectually set us free from sin and the law. He now indwells the

believer and grants us the grace to kill sin. Paul contrasts the

unregenerate person who is totally unable to come to Christ versus

the...

In our regeneration, the Holy Spirit has

effectually set us free from sin and the law. He now indwells the

believer and grants us the grace to kill sin. Paul contrasts the

unregenerate person who is totally unable to come to Christ versus

the...

Exodus 30:1-10

Exodus 30:1-10

Exodus 30:1-10

Romans 7 is considered one of the most difficult and controversial chapters in Romans. Why do we still sin? Why do we still do the things we know we shouldn’t do? Why do we struggle with doing the things we should do and fail to do them? IF we have died to sin, been set free from sin, and our old man has been crucified, then should not we conclude that we will never sin again? That we can reach a plane of sinless perfection?

Is Paul talking about himself and his current struggle with sin as a regenerate Christian?

Or. . . is Paul describing what his life was like BEFORE his salvation.

In other words, is this section describing what we normally experience as Christians who struggle with sin, or is this describing what our life was like before we got saved and were still “in Adam?”

The early church fathers, Arminians like Jacob Arminius and John Wesley, for the most part, believe Paul is talking about the life BEFORE one is a Christian—the unregenerate, lost person.

On the other hand, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, most of the Reformers and Puritans, as well as most modern Reformed scholars such as J. I. Packer, John Murray, Leon Morris, and James Montgomery Boice view this as the normal Christian experience of the regenerate person who struggles with sin.

The third view is put forth by those within some circles of dispensationalism and the Keswick “Higher Life Movement” who see this as a saved person, but what they would label a “carnal Christian.”

That is, a very immature Christian who has not totally “let go and let God” or “fully surrendered” to Jesus, so they are living on this lower plane of spirituality and haven’t learned to get “self off of the throne” and let the Spirit take control.

Dr. Sean Cole makes the case for the Reformed view that Paul addresses the normal struggle all Christians experience in this fallen world.

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Romans 7 is considered one of the most difficult

and controversial chapters in Romans. Why do we still sin? Why do

we still do the things we know we shouldn’t do? Why do we struggle

with doing the things we should do and fail to do them? IF we...

Romans 7 is considered one of the most difficult

and controversial chapters in Romans. Why do we still sin? Why do

we still do the things we know we shouldn’t do? Why do we struggle

with doing the things we should do and fail to do them? IF we...