02-27-18 - Romans, Chapter 7 deals with the freedom of the law. Chapter 6 dealt with freedom from sin. This chapter teaches that deliverance from sin is not enough, but that we also need to know deliverance from the law. Paul asserts that faith into Messiah and His Holy Spirit is all that is needed to please God irrespective of the Judaizers argument of continued submission and bondage to the law.
Galatians 5: 16-25: “”But if you are led of the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest which are these: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings and such like…”
Let’s recap our spiritual journey through Romans.
We settled by Faith our forgiveness of sin with the blood, justification by faith, our resulting peace with God. In chapter five Paul dealt with our root trouble of being a sinner. In chapter Six he clearly revealed our deliverance from sin by the same Faith.
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