• The Relationship of the Law to the Believer
  • The marriage illustration
    • The binding character of the marriage law
    • The duration of the bond
    • The dissolution of the bond
  • The doctrinal truth
    • The first husband is the law
    • When Christ died the Law died with Him — Col 2:13-17
    • The believer is married to a new husband — Christ
  • The principles applied
    • Death experienced — Rom 7:4a
    • Relationship established — Rom 7:4b
    • New life begun — Rom 7:4c
    • New freedom experienced — Rom 7:6
      • Negative — not by the old letter
      • Positive — but by the new spirit
• The Law and Sin
  • Law reveals the fact of sin — Rom 7:7
    • The Law makes it apparent
    • The Law did not create sin
    • The Law exposes sin
    • The exposure to Paul
    • The evil desires revealed, 10th Commandment — Exo 20:17
  • The Law reveals the awareness of sin
    • It affects the conscience
    • It increases the sense of sin
    • It provokes sin
  • The Law condemns sin — Rom 7:8b
    • The judgment of the Law
    • The fact of spiritual death
  • The Law reveals the power of sin — Rom 7:9
    • The Law has legal power to convict
    • The Law has no life-power to deliver
    • Sin over-powers us and holds us helpless
    • We must die to self-reliance
  • The Law reveals the effect of sin — Rom 7:10
    • Sin brings death
    • Law legalizes
    • Paul —discovery of indwelling sin came after conversion
  • The Law reveals the deception of sin — Rom 7:11
    • It deceives us into thinking wrongly about God — that He will condone sin
    • It deceives us into thinking wrongly about ourselves — that we are not really responsible
      • By making us think that we can stand in our own strength
      • By producing the illusion that we can meet any situation
  • The Law reveals the sinfulness of sin — Rom 7:12-13
    • The Law imposes penalty upon the Law-breaker
    • The Law proves the sinfulness of human nature
      • Sin as leprosy
      • Sin as leaven
      • There is no defect in the Law
      • The defect is in us
  • "Under grace" means we are not "under Law"
    • We have been discharged from the Law
    • We have been cleared and will never face trial by the Law
      • The Law must be out of the way for the Lord Jesus Christ to live by faith in our hearts

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