Men's Bible Study 1.25.23

Romans 7:6

Romans 7:6 NKJV

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.

We actually serve the spirit and what he wants to do

How Do we serve the Spirit?

He leads by the still small voice but He also shows us what to do

What are you seeing?

John 5:19–20 NKJV

Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

The spirit resides in us for us but he rests on us for others

HOW do we know what God wants?

Romans 7:7–8 NKJV

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

Sin will step into every open door you leave open

Sowing to the flesh produces more things in the flesh

Sin begets sin

The Spirit produces spirit

Discipline in our lives begets discipline

How have you seen this manifest in your life?

Romans 7:9–13 NKJV

I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

Sin is never satisfied

Romans 7:16–19 NKJV

If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.

How do we do the things we will to do?

How do we keep from doing the things we don’t want to do?

Romans 7:21 NKJV

I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.

Romans 7:22–25 NKJV

For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 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.

He’s equipped you through his Spirit to overcome

WE have to listen and obey

What does overcoming look like to you?