My Deliverance

Let this simmer for a minute, then read the definition again. For yes you can change your position of being wretched. but not from sinner to saint on your own

So, this morning we want to

Glean from our passage

What can deliver me (7:24-25)

No condemnation (8:1)

Free (8:2-4)

Gleaning from passage

Simply Christians leaning in to expect, to experience, to engage. Starts with leaning in to hear God’s word.

Romans 7:24 NASB95

24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?

Romans 7:25 NASB95

25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.

Romans 8:1–2 NASB95

1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

Romans 8:3–4 NASB95

3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Romans 8:4 NASB95

4 so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

What do you notice in this passage?

Who is speaking, and to whom?

What do you think the mood is here?

What does the speaker know about himself (v.24)?

Think about this, there are two laws mentioned (v.25); what are they?

In the law of God there is what (v.1)?

What sets you free, and from what (v.2)

Why can the law not save you (v.3)?

How was the requirements of the law fulfilled in us (v.4)?

Whew, that is a lot of questions, and as Simply Christians leaning in, we really should grasp the seriousness and the elation we can find in this passage.

What can deliver me?

Paul knew he needed deliverance, or is reminded that he did. May we remember too, and how we were delivered.

Romans 7:24–25 NKJV

24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

Thought maybe would be good to put the passage up again.

Is it what, or who that can save you?

Notice it is not what (the law); but who, God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

We cannot do it ourselves, we need to know we can’t. There is no work, even works of righteousness that make us righteous in God’s eyes. Why

Sin dwells in us, I cannot deliver myself (consider Rom7:14, 17,20)

Romans 7:14 NASB95

14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.

And

Romans 7:17 NASB95

17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

Romans 7:20 NASB95

20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

All verses we looked at recently.

What is the commonality in these verses?

Sin dwelling in me

Turn with me to (Rom6:8-17 for a quick reminder.

Romans 6:8–9 NASB95

8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.

Romans 6:10–11 NASB95

10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:12–13 NASB95

12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Romans 6:14–15 NASB95

14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

Romans 6:16–17 NASB95

16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed,

We were slaves to sin, now slaves to righteousness we have been set free!

OK, from wretched to saint? How do we know we are free? Glad you asked.

No Condemnation

What does condemnation mean? Were we once condemned? How do you know? Are we, as Christians condemned today? Why or why not?

Romans 8:1 NKJV

1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

What is the status of those who are “in” Christ Jesus?

Let’s look briefly at the when, how and why in (Rom6:1-4)

Romans 6:1–2 NASB95

1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

Romans 6:3–4 NASB95

3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

Why? Sin

When? When we were baptized

How? Through raising of Christ we too are raised to the newness of life

For those who are in Christ

From the wretchedness in chapter-7 to the newness in chapter-8. From the storm in chapter-7 to the calm brought by the Spirit in chapter-8. what a difference the spirit makes in the man who is at peace with God (5:1) and is not condemned (8:1) Oh, much more to get on this as we continue to look at chapter-8 over the next few weeks.

FREE!

Can you talk about freedom, what kinds of freedom do we enjoy in this life (in the flesh)?

Romans 8:2–3 NKJV

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,

Romans 8:4 NKJV

4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Spirit frees us from power of sin and death

Under the law, or even under the moral law of God we were wretched, separated from God, but under Christ there is no condemnation.

What the law could not do, God did (8:3)

For what the law (that which is moral, just, holy and perfect) could not do; justify us; relieve us of the penalty of sin and death God did.

What we could not do in our own works and merit, God did His part, then we have our part to do.

In the flesh, in our own merit, what we could not do, God did. Our part is to continue to crucify the flesh (see Gal2:20, 5:24, 6:14; and Rom8:13)

Galatians 2:20 NASB95

20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

Heck might as well give you the others on your outline too.

Galatians 5:24 NASB95

24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

and

Galatians 6:14 NASB95

14 But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Do you get the theme here? What is it?

By crucifying the flesh we put to death the things that hinder our walk with Christ so we walk in the Spirit, and we do it under the power of the Spirit not the weakness of our flesh.

Romans 8:13 NASB95

13 for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

We must put to death these things for our flesh is weak because of sin but god is not weak.

Sending Jesus was part of God’s scheme of redemption, part of the big plan for sinful man to be saved.

Jesus came not only in likeness of flesh (8:3; Php2:7-8) but in the flesh as noted in 1Jn4:2)

Because He came in the flesh and the likeness of sinful flesh He was able to condemn sin, for He was sinless.

Something that is condemned has no power, so sin has no power in the Christian since it is sin condemned and there is no condemnation in the Christian. We have power, power in the Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of God (more on this as we continue in chapter-8 as mentioned before).

Maybe we should pause for a minute and take a quick side trip.

The how, when and why Jesus was able to take sins power away from the Christians

He fulfilled the righteous requirements of the law

For the wages of sin is death (6:23); sin had a price and that price had to be paid.

The price was Jesus Himself offering Himself up as our sin offering, once and for all.

When? When He died on the cross for our sins to be put on Him.

Why? Because the Father loved us so much as to send the Son and the Son loved us so much He was willing to take on that burden for us.

No death sentence, but a life sentence eternal life that is.

What are you going to do with your eternal life sentence?

Make it count, for the days are evil and we need to make the most of our time (Eph5:16)

Remember there is no condemnation for those in Christ (8:1)

You have been set free from the law of sin and death

What you do with your deliverance, your freedom. The free gift from God; well it is your gift back to God. So, may we chose to give back to God with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind and all our strength. In what we do just as much as in what we say