Romans Part 18

THE BOOK OF ROMANS PART 18ROMANS 7:1-13II. JUSTIFICATION- The Imputation of Righteousness: Romans 1:18-5:21III. SANCTIFICATION- The Impartation of Righteousness: Romans 6:1-8:17A. The Basis and New Principle of Sanctification — 6:1-23B. The New Relationship: Freedom from the Law that Controlled 7:1-251. The Believer and the Law of Marriage 7:1-6a. The law is only binding as long as you live (v1)b. A married woman is bound to her husband while he is alive (v2)c. Only by his death was a wife freed from marriage contract (v3)d. What was true for the wife under the Law is now true for us (v4)e. Another purpose of the law was to produce sinful passions (v5)f. We are released from the law, just as the wife was released (v6)2. Sin and the Law 7:7-13a. The purpose of the law was to show what sin is (v. 7)b. It was to make one sin more (v 8)c. I was alive, sin came, and I died (v9)d. The commandment that promised life, proved death to me (v 10)e. Sin deceived me and through it killed me (v11)f. But, the law is holy, righteous, and good (v12)g. It is not the law that causes death. It is sin. (v13)3. Self and the Law — 7:14-25