Who Will Rescue?

Romans 7:24-8:2 NIV

Sermon Notes

Quotations

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“Thus a Christian man is righteous and a sinner at the same time, holy and profane, an enemy of God and a child of God.”

Latin phrase: simul justus et peccator
at the same time righteous and sinner

Luther, Martin. Lectures on Galatians. Luther’s Works, vol. 26, edited by Jaroslav Pelikan, Concordia Publishing House, 1999.

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“The living and the dead at his command were coupled, face to face, and hand to hand; till, choked with stench, in loathed embraces tied, the lingering wretches pined away and died.”

Virgil. The Aeneid. Translated by John Dryden. Project Gutenberg, 2008.

Note

Augustine in his Confessions

“O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death but Your grace only, through Jesus Christ our Lord?”

Book 8
he describes his own struggle with lust
Augustine quotes Paul almost word for word

Augustine. Confessions. Translated by J. G. Pilkington. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, vol. 1, edited by Philip Schaff, Christian Literature Publishing, 1886.

Note

BELONG; Romans 7:4

γίνομαι
ginomai
from a prim. root γεν- gen-; to come into being, to happen, to become, prove to be; belong to

Note

RESCUE; Romans 7:24

rhuomai
(to protect, save); to deliver, rescue
OCCURS IN 15 VERSES
Matt 6:13 ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’]