Main Point: As Adopted Children, Live the Life of Your New Family

Text: Romans 8:12-17

Outline:

A. Debtors to God

B. Adopted Children of God

C. Heirs of Glory

Main Point: Live a Resurrected Life for God by the Power of Christ’s Spirit in You

Text: Romans 8:9-11

Outline:

A. Belonging to the Triune God (v. 9)

B. Alive in the Triune God (vv. 10-11)

Main Point: Free in Christ, Set Your Mind To Fulfill the Law by the Spirit

Text: Romans 8:3-8

Outline:

A. Justified in Christ (vv. 3-4)

B. The Work of Christ (vv. 5-8)

Main Point: You Have No Condemnation in Christ Jesus

Text: Romans 8:1-2

Outline:

A. Jesus Condemnation

B. The Work of Christ

C. Freedom in the Spirit

Main Point: Praise God, For He Redeems Wretched Men

Text: Romans 7:21-25

Outline:

A. Proximity To Evil.

B. Captive Prisoner.

C. Wretched Saint.

D. Thanks Be To God.

Romans: Sin Dwells Within You and Drives You to More Sin

Text: Romans 7:18-20

Outline:

A. Desire but no ability.

B. Continuing to do evil.

C. The fount of sin.

Main Point: Hating Sin is Good

Text: Romans 7:13-17

Outline:

A. Your sin wants to kill you and your family.

B. Wrestling with your sin is good.

C. Your identity is in Christ and not your sin

Main Point: The Law Reveals Sin, and That Is Good

Text: Romans 7:7-12

Outline:

A. The Law Reveals Our Ignorance to Sin

B. The Law Shows Us How We Are Dead in Our Sin

C. The Law Is Holy and Draws Us Near to God

Main Point: You Belong to Christ To Serve in the Spirit

Text: Romans 7:4-6

Outline:

A. Died to the Law in Christ

B. The works of the law

C. Serving in the Spirit

Main Point: Death Will Break All Bounds but One, the Love of God

Text: Romans 7:1-3

Outline:

A. The binding of the law

B. The release through death

C. Eternally bound to the love of God