The Law Reveals Sin

Romans 7:8 But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead.

Until the law was revealed, sin was unknown or unrevealed.

The law became the target; sin showed that I missed the target. The law did not show me how to hit the target; it only showed me I was missing the target.

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The Law Is Not the Standard for Righteousness

Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

Law in itself is not sin, Law simply showed what was sin and what the requirement was. Without law I would of never known I was wrong. The problem was it pointed out my wrong rather then encouraging me towards righteousness.

The law was good in showing us our need for a savior, but law was not and should not be the standard of righteousness. When law is used as a standard of righteousness we'll all be miserable.

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Serve in the Newness of the Spirit

Romans 7:6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

now we have been delivered from the law, my spouse named Law died when I introduced him to JESUS, so I married JESUS.

And now I'm no longer married to Law, who no matter how hard I tried, I could not satisfy, I was always falling short, never really feeling loved or desired, just hammered and corrected.

In all honesty Law's death was not a disappointment and I married JESUS on the same day.

It's interesting because my new marriage actually has a greater demand on me then Law every did. But now I serve for loves sake and I enjoy it so much more, I want to please JESUS and I never felt that way about Law.

Now I serve with a newness of Spirit. I don't serve the letter of Law but JESUS through His Spirit placed in my heart. It's such a better relationship.


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Sinful Nature

Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.

sinful passions That desire within us to do what we want to do. It is to Satisfy ourselves even though the Bible says don't do it. Our SINFUL NATURE is Allowing our life to go in that direction will lead us to death.

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How the Law Works

Romans 7:2-4 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. 4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another; to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

Verses 2-4 are an example of how the law works.

7:2 If a woman becomes a wife, she is no longer free as a single woman she is bound by the law to be a wife to that man and only that man.

7:3 As a wife if she married another man she a law-breaker deserving of death. But if her husband died she is no longer a wife and she is free to remarry. Something that would be a horrible sin became OK.

7:4 Just like a woman could remarry according to the law so also a JEW under the law could die to that law and come alive to another, JESUS.

That way they could bear fruit for GOD, because according to the law they are always missing the mark bearing no fruit.They would recognize their marriage or commitment to the law as ended, dead to the law and remarried to JESUS

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Those Who Know the Law

Romans 7:1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

those who know the law Now he's speaking to the Jew. Someone who wants to try and find righteousness by obeying the Old Testement laws.

If you want the law then you keep that law all your life.But within the law there are some cases where something that was illegal becomes legal.

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The Gift From God Is Eternal Life

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The product of living for self (sin) is death;
The product of living for GOD is life everlasting with JESUS in heaven.

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Product of Our Obedience to God

Romans 6:22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.

I’ve been set free from that, I don't have to live that way. I can remove my sinfulness and replace it with Godliness. I can have fruits of holiness that's path is to everlasting life with JESUS. I CAN BE ON A PATH THAT LEADS TO EVERLASTING LIFE.

A fruit that once poisoned can now be a blessing;
the fruit that had no regard for righteousness can now be submerged in righteousness.

Because the fruit is no longer the product of my fleshliness but is the product of my obedience to GOD.

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No Regard To Righteousness

Rom 6:20-21 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

When we lived satisfying the flesh;
Where did it get us?
What kind of lasting joy did it bring?

All it offered was a path to death and a time in my life I regret. A time when I paid no regard to righteousness. A time when my fruit was poison to all who would eat it.

It's the kind of mindset that has no problem transmitting sexual disease’s because after all someone gave it to me. Someone poisoned me so why don't I poison you. NO REGARD TO RIGHTEOUSNESS.



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