Who Will Rescue?

Romans 7:24-8:2 NIV

Sermon Notes

Quotations

Note

“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.

Note

“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.’]

The Law of Oxygen

Romans 7:4 (NIV)

⁴ So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

Is The Law Good?

Romans 7:7 (NIV)

The Law and Sin

⁷ What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

19th Psalm 7-8 (NIV)

⁷ The law of the LORD is perfect,refreshing the soul.The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy,making wise the simple.⁸ The precepts of the LORD are right,giving joy to the heart.The commands of the LORD are radiant,giving light to the eyes.

The War Within

Romans 7:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.

Romans 7:22-23 (NIV)

²² For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; ²³ but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.

Who Will Rescue?

Romans 7:24-25 (NIV)

²⁴ What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? ²⁵ Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

Now!

Romans 8:1-2 (NIV)

Life Through the Spirit

¹ Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, ² because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

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Are you still chained to the dead?

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