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125 lines
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Title = 'Romans 7:7-13 - The Assurance of Eternal Salvation<br>Even Through the Personal Struggle with Sin';
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<ul>
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<li>Preliminary Observations
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<li>Romans chapter 7 is not a necessary experience
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<li>Paul —experience is highlighted by his background</li>
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<li>Not every believer must go through Paul —anguish</li>
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<li>This cannot be a continual experience
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<li>No Christian can live in constant defeat</li>
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<li>Every Christian will experience some growth</li>
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<li>This is the experience of a believer
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<li>Paul was hating sin</li>
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<li>Paul was desiring holiness</li>
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<li>The Purpose of the Passage
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<li>To demonstrate the inability of anyone to fulfill the demands of the Law — personal holiness</li>
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<li>To demonstrate the necessity of the indwelling Spirit of Christ for the new position of justified to walk in holiness</li>
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<li>To demonstrate that the same sovereign grace of God that justifies, gives a new position, and continues to operate in the life</li>
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<li>To demonstrate that when the new nature "moved in," the old nature just "moved over" not "out"</li>
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<li>To demonstrate that the Law is "good" but sin is "bad"</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>The Analysis of<a id="si_2" onclick="return mV('Rom',7,'7-13');">Rom 7:7-13</a>
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<li>The Law and sin
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<li>Law reveals the fact of sin — <a id="si_3" onclick="return mV('Rom',7,7);">Rom 7:7</a>
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<li>To commit sin is to sin</li>
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<li>The law makes it apparent</li>
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<li>The Law did not create sin</li>
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<li>The Law exposes sin</li>
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<li>The exposure of Paul</li>
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<li>The "evil desires" revealed — 10th commandment</li>
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<li>The Law reveals the awareness of sin
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<li>It affects the conscience</li>
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<li>It increases the sense of sin</li>
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<li>It provokes sin</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>The Law condemns sin — <a id="si_4" onclick="return mV('Rom',7,8);">Rom 7:8b</a>
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<li>The judgment of the Law</li>
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<li>The fact of spiritual death</li>
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<li>The Law reveals the power of sin — <a id="si_5" onclick="return mV('Rom',7,9);">Rom 7:9</a>
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<li>The Law has legal power to convict</li>
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<li>The Law has no life — power to deliver</li>
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<li>Sin over-powers us and holds us helpless</li>
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<li>We must die to self-reliance</li>
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<li>The Law reveals the effect of sin — <a id="si_5" onclick="return mV('Rom',7,10);">Rom 7:10</a>
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<li>Sin brings death</li>
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<li>Law legalizes</li>
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<li>Paul —discovery of indwelling sin came after conversion</li>
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<li>The Law reveals the deception of sin — <a id="si_6" onclick="return mV('Rom',7,11);">Rom 7:11</a>
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<li>It deceives us into thinking wrongly about God — that He will condone sin</li>
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<li>It deceives us into thinking wrongly about ourselves
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that we are not really responsible
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<li>By making us think that we can stand in our own strength</li>
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<li>By producing the illusion that we can meet any situation</li>
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<li>The Law reveals the sinfulness of sin — <a id="si_8" onclick="return mV('Rom',7,12,13);">Rom 7:12-13</a>
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<li>The Law exposes sin</li>
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<li>The Law imposes penalty upon the law-breaker</li>
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<li>The Law protects the law-abiding person</li>
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<li>The Law proves the sinfulness of human nature
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<li>Sin as leprosy</li>
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<li>Sin as leaven</li>
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<li>Sin as evil desire</li>
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<li>Knowledge of right and the command to obey are incentives to evil</li>
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<li>There is no defect in the Law</li>
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<li>The defect is in us</li>
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<li>"Search me, O God, and know my heart"</li>
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<li>"Under grace" means we are not "under Law"
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<li>We have been discharged from the Law</li>
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<li>We have been cleared and will never face trial by the Law</li>
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<li>The Law must be out of the way for the Lord Jesus Christ to live by faith in our hearts</li>
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