4. Do you not know, brothers—for I am
speaking to men who know the law—that
the law has authority over a man only as
long as he lives?
Romans 7:1
5. How do I preserve my identity:
Sabbath, Diet, Circumcision
6. • Validates Us as God’s children
• Teaches us God’s Priorities
• Convicts us of Holiness
What does the law do?
7. For I would not have known what coveting
really was if the law had not said, “Do not
covet.” But sin, seizing the opportunity
afforded by the commandment, produced in
me every kind of covetous desire. For apart
from law, sin is dead.
Romans 7:7-8
9. I do not understand what I do. For what
I want to do I do not do, but what I hate
I do… I know that nothing good lives in
me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I
have the desire to do what is good, but
I cannot carry it out.
Romans 7:15, 18
12. The mind of sinful man is death, but the
mind controlled by the Spirit is life and
peace (8:6)
#2: New Mind
And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus
from the dead is living in you, he who
raised Christ from the dead will also give
life to your mortal bodies through his
Spirit, who lives in you. (8:11)
13. #3 New Family
For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a
slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of
sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit
himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s
children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—
heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we
share in his sufferings in order that we may also
share in his glory. (8:15-17)
14. #4 New World
The creation itself will be liberated from its
bondage to decay and brought into the glorious
freedom of the children of God. We know that
the whole creation has been groaning as in the
pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
(8:21-22)
15. #3 New Power
No, in all these things we are more than
conquerors through him who loved us. For I am
convinced that neither death nor life, neither
angels nor demons, neither the present nor the
future, nor any powers, neither height nor
depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be
able to separate us from the love of God that is
16. Strategy Questions
• Did you grow up more under the law or
under grace?
• Have you ever had a prompting to do
something that you suspect came from
God?
• Brainstorm some way you could get
better acquainted with the Holy Spirit?