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Welcome
House Keeping
The Mow Team
Men’s Night Out
CoEd Softball
A Christian Bound By Rules
Remember that question Paul asked twice in chapter 6.
I know right away your thinking how many times are we going to go over this.
Well obviously as many times as it takes us to get it.
The reason we don’t get it is because it is much easier to follow rules than it is to live a life led by the Spirit.
It is much easier to have something I can gauge my righteousness off of than to accept that i am being made righteous through a deeper relationship with God.
We have a blindness.
Under Law: It is about me keeping rules so I can be righteous in God’s sight.
Under Grace: I come to the realization that ALL my righteousness comes as a gift from Christ.
Here's the problem with putting yourself back under the law or having a rules oriented Christianity:
1. Creates a competitive spirit
2. Facilitates a judgmental attitude toward others
3. Encourages people to do the minimum
4. Returns a person to a "works righteousness" mentality
5. Fosters feelings of personal condemnation
6. Diminishes assurance of salvation
7. Robs the Christian of joy
In Chapter 7 Paul begins to deconstruct Rules driven Christianity and to help us understand that we have actually been set free from living as rule followers.
Paul starts out by stating a known fact.
You can’t break the law if your dead.
Then he shifts into an Analogy.
OK Paul where you going with this.
You start into this kind of thing in today’s world and people start getting a little uncomfortable.
But when you set back you can quickly begin to tie the thing Paul has previously said to a deeper understanding of the point Paul is trying to make.
The Application: To understand the Application lets jump back to chapter 6.
Paul established that we Died with Christ.
Romans 7:4a (ESV)
4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ.......,
This ties directly to another letter written by Paul.
Romans 7:4a-b (ESV)
4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead,....
Our old husband the Law has died and now we can remarry a new way through Jesus.
That new way gives new abilities.
This new way leads to Sanctification and ultimately the Reward is eternal Life.
The Old Way on the other hand.
Romans 7:5 NLT
When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death.
So we have covered the disadvantages of the old way of life lets take a look at the advantages of this new way of living in Christ.
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The old way was measured by obeying; the new way is measured by living.
2. The old way came with a cloudy understanding; the new way is clearly understood.
3. The old way was concerned with the letter of the law; the new way is concerned with the spirit of the law.
Romans 13:8b–10 (NLT)
8b If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill the requirements of God’s law.
9 For the commandments say, “You must not commit adultery.
You must not murder.
You must not steal.
You must not covet.”
These—and other such commandments—are summed up in this one commandment: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
10 Love does no wrong to others, so love fulfills the requirements of God’s law.
4. The old way was motivated by fear; the new way is motivated by love.
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The old way was weak because of flesh; the new way is powerful because of the Spirit.
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The old way brought death; the new way brings supernatural life.
7. The old way mankind was a slave to fear; the new way brings brings the Spirit of sonship.
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