Sermon Tone Analysis

We are in this sermon series entitled Simplify - Living the uncluttered life.

We digging deep into the meaning of the inner life and what it means to be transformed into the likeness of Christ… Last week we touched on the importance of being attentive to the inner life — What gives the us joy?

What is causing us grief?

Spiritual formation doesn’t just happen and it requires paying attention to details… being mindful… of the inner life..

When you start paying attention to the inner man you will realize that there is something not quite right… — we are complex beings and the internal life is predesposed to conflict.

Conflict in the inner life…

The purpose of the book of Romans is that Paul wants the Roman believers to fully understand the gospel.

Romans has been called the gospel of God…it is Pauls theological Thesis — That the power of God has been revealed through the gospel and available to all who have faith..

Paul’s argument is that Christ bridges the gap between us and God, and between cultures and races—he is the way God fulfilled his promises to Abraham.

Christ is the righteousness we all seek—and it’s in him that we come together.

How can we live in a right relationship with God who is absolutely holy and righteousness.

In the OT it was through the law and ceremonial washings people approached God..

most important letter and

The big theme of the book of Romans is this theme of Righteousness..

How can we live in a right relationship with God who is absolutely holy and righteousness.

The big theme of the book of Romans is this theme of Righteousness.. How can we live in a right relationship with God who is absolutely holy and righteousness.

In the OT it was through the law and ceremonial washings people approached God..

Earlier in Paul tells us that we were once under the Law… we were constantly under the judgement of law… therefore we were always guilty before God.

now identify with the death burial and resurrection of Christ… We were released from the constraits and requirements of the Lord… It no longer became the pathway to a right relationship… Rather it came through a personal relationship with Jesus.

We were released from the constraits and requirements of the Lord… It no longer became the pathway to a right relationship… Rather it came through a personal relationship with Jesus.

But this is no longer the case… when Christ died we to died to the effects of the law --- bringing up guilt...

Rom

Exegesis

we are released from the law,

having died

We were released are exempt from Mosaic system of regulations.. we have died to the thing that restrained us held us down… we became inslaved to the law… the law promised freedom but never delivered it… That is the problem of any legalist system… we love rules… because rules can empower us… just to do what is required… the very thing we think is bringing us freedom… is holding us down…

to that which

held us captive,

so that we serve in the new way

of the Spirit

and not

in the old way of the written code.

We were released are exempt from Mosaic system of regulations.. we have died to the thing that restrained us held us down… we became enslaved to the law… the law promised freedom but never delivered it… That is the problem of any legalist system… we love rules… because rules can empower us… just to do what is required… the very thing we think is bringing us freedom… is holding us down… We need to be so careful of legalism… because it can disguise itself as being spiritual… legalism keeps us captive.. Paul give the illustration of marriage.. once one person passed… law is no longer in effect… we have in Christ died to law..

We now serve in a new way.. Then way is that of the Spirit - Christ spirit and not the written code.

This past week I went to the

This is where Paul deals with this battle within us — the struggle between the flesh and the Spiritual man… There is this gap between what we know and what we practice....

This past week I went to the

Hygienist… and I know that I am going hear about flossing… and she asks me am I flossing… I always find myself repenting… because I know that I don’t floss enough…and I know that for the next couple of weeks I am going floss… then I’m going to backslide… Why does this happen to me...

This is where we are positionally --- but we have this struggle between the flesh and the Spiritual man… The idea is a little like the person who has been incarserated for some time and how does he handle new found freedom.

The idea is a little like the person who has been incarcerated for some time and how does he handle new found freedom.

But now

14 For we know that the law is spiritual,

but I am

we are released from the law,

having died

to that which

held us captive,

so that we serve in the new way

the law is spiritual, but

that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.

of the Spirit

and not

in the old way of the written code.

T/S How do we get the confidence to live bold and authentic lives?

Know what Causes me to loose my Confidence.

Have you ever had someone finish your sentences?

Read your mind.

Paul gets into our own struggles and gets very real up and personal… Because the struggle is very real.

This is where Paul deals with this battle within us — the struggle between the flesh and the Spiritual man… There is this gap between what we know and what we practice....

14 For we know that the law is spiritual,

but I am

of the flesh,

I am of the flesh,

sold under sin.

The mind is subject (dominated) to the word of God… and the flesh is subject to sin....

15 For I do not understand my own actions.

For I do not do what I want,

but I do the very thing I hate.

16 Now if I do what I do not want,

I agree with the law,

that it is good.

17 So now it is no longer I who do it,

but sin that dwells within me.

18 For I know that nothing good

dwells in me,

that is, in my flesh.

For I have the desire

to do

what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.

19 For I do not do the good I want,

but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.

20 Now if I do what I do not want,

it is

no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

T/S How do we internal conflict that destroys our confidence.

1. Know Why inner Conflict Arises.

2. Know where conflict exists.

3. Know How to Overcome internal Conflict.

3. Know How to

21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.

22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,

23 but I see in my members another law

waging war against the law of my mind

and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

24 Wretched man that I am!

Who will deliver me from this body of death?

25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

Exegesis

On one hand the law itself is perfect it’s spiritual… and it’s not the law that is the problem… it’s me breaking the law… I struggle to fulfill the requirements of the law… one of the main reason is that I have this rebel… called my flesh… that rebels against Law.... Paul says Hey… my flesh there is not even a question… it is sold out on sin… there is no denying… Then he breaks it down...