It’s time to begin digging into Romans 7…
Romans 7:1-6
1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives?
2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.
3 So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.
4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
Read Romans 7:1. How does it begin?
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THINK ABOUT IT…
How many complete thought sentences do you know that begin with the word “or”? “Or” is a conjunction word. This means it joins together two sentences, or two thoughts by either comparing, contrasting, or conjoining them. If Romans 7 begins with the word “or” then we need to find out what two sentences or thoughts are being joined together. So let’s go back and begin reading at Romans 6:20.
Read Romans 6:20-7:1. How long does the law have jurisdiction over a person?
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Read Romans 7:2-3. What example does Paul give us to explain how the law was over us? Unscramble the words to get your answer.
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THINK ABOUT IT…
Have you ever been to a wedding? When the couple getting married says their wedding vows, or wedding promises to one another, that promise ends with “until death do us part”
The husband and wife are supposed to keep these promises to one another and make them with no one else. These promises to one another are for life.
But if one of them dies, then the promises are able to be made to someone else.
Paul is trying to show us here that we are bound to the law until we die in Christ like we learned happens Romans 6.
It’s kind of like we are married to the law. But when we die in Christ, the law does not matter anymore, because we are now free to be married to Jesus.
Read Romans 7:4. What usually happens when people get married? Look at the picture below to get your answer.
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Read Romans 7:4 again. If we have died to the law and have been married to Christ what should we be doing for God?
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Remember what we learned in our Romans Part One Study?
Go back and read Matthew 7:16-20 and John 15:1-8. Then answer the question below.
How do we know if we belong to God?
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Read Romans 7:5. When we were in the flesh what did our bodies bear fruit for?
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Read Romans 7:6. When we were bound to the Law we served in the oldness of the letter. No matter how hard we tried to keep the Law, we just couldn’t. Now in Jesus we are dead to the Law. How do we serve now?
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Read Galatians 5:22-23. This passage describes to us what our fruit should be when we serve in the Spirit. Fill the tree below with the fruit of the Spirit.
