Posted: May 26, 2023
Life of a believer and its demonstration. A person who has died to himself so that Christ can live in him has the assurance of a victorious eternal life. A yielded believer possesses a victorious life because God has delivered him from the power of sin through the body of Jesus Christ. Sinful human beings
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Posted: May 20, 2023
Life of a believer. In chapter seven, Paul stated that sin exploited a command to incite sinful desires in the sinful flesh. The sinful human spirit made the flesh weak and unable to resist sin’s influence. Therefore, sin employed what was good to produce undesirable results in the flesh. However, the law is not defective,
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Posted: May 13, 2023
The wretched man. The yielded believers have two natures. One is the sinful biological nature, the flesh, inherited from the first man Adam. The other is the new human spirit received from the second man – Jesus Christ. The yielded believers are guided by the Holy Spirit, whom the Father sent to dwell in them.
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Posted: May 6, 2023
The consequences of the change of husbands. In chapter seven, the first four verses, Paul clarified his assertion that humankind is not under the law. It is not under the Law’s dominion because the sinful life of humankind died in the body of Jesus on the cross at Golgotha. Only eternal death could dissolve the
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Posted: April 28, 2023
The sounding of the sixth trumpet. “So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.” Romans 7:4, NET. Humankind’s marriage to the law was dissolved through
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Posted: April 21, 2023
Freed from marriage to the law. “So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress. Romans 7:3, NET. Paul emphasized
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Posted: April 13, 2023
Freed from marriage to the law. “Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives? Romans 7:1, NET. Translators of the Bible employed the noun “person” about the one ruled by the law.
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Posted: April 7, 2023
Summary. The preceding blogs presented Paul’s assertion that yielded believers do not sin because they have died to the law and thus are free from sin’s power. The whole of the old humankind died in the body of Jesus on the cross at Golgotha. Being dead to the law means being free from the law’s
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Posted: April 1, 2023
Re-emphasis. Previous blogs presented Paul’s repeated emphasis on what God has accomplished for sinful humankind. God had the sinful spirit of humankind die in the body of Jesus Christ on the cross at Golgotha. Humankind now has a new spirit, a new life, in Jesus Christ, the Second Adam. Jesus Christ is our righteousness from
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Posted: March 24, 2023
Grace is not made available only. It has been fulfilled. “But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.” Romans 6:22, NET. God removed from humankind the disgraced sinful spirit, the sinful life, through his Grace, Jesus Christ, on the cross at
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