Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer Part 1. And God isn’t pleased at being ignored. That’s certainly not true. So if I can’t be trusted to figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that God’s command is necessary. John Piper Dec 9, 2001 491 Shares Sermon. The Flesh and the Spirit. But the law code itself is God’s good and common sense, each command sane and holy counsel. 8 ThereisthereforenownocondemnationforthosewhoareinChristJesus.12 ForthelawofhtheSpiritoflifeiha… For without the law sin was dead. Romans 7:8: But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. But the law code itself is God’s good and common sense, each command sane and holy counsel. But now that we’re no longer shackled to that domineering mate of sin, and out from under all those oppressive regulations and fine print, we’re free to live a new life in the freedom of God. As we have been reading through this great letter from Paul to the Romans, we have seen the gospel of Jesus Christ which is able to set men free. 17-20 But I need something more! Paul emphasizes this in our text with a series of synonyms: we were helpless (5:6); ungodly (5:6); sinners (5:8); and, enemies (5:10). In the end, all we had to show for it was miscarriages and stillbirths. 6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Sin simply did what sin is so famous for doing: using the good as a cover to tempt me to do what would finally destroy me. For as long as we lived that old way of life, doing whatever we felt we could get away with, sin was calling most of the shots as the old law code hemmed us in. This is a combined, edited version of two articles that were first published in Norwegian: “Do you believe Romans 8:28?” from BCC’s periodical “Skjulte Skatter”(“Hidden Treasures”) in June 1949, and a transcript from a message by Elias Aslaksen in January 1976, “Everything Works Together for … He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. I’m full of myself—after all, I’ve spent a long time in sin’s prison. None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. The text says this: Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be. Romans 7-8 The Message (MSG) Torn Between One Way and Another. III. But once sin got its hands on the law code and decked itself out in all that finery, I was fooled, and fell for it. 31-39 So, what do you think? Feb 4, 2014. I can will it, but I can’t do it. 7 But I can hear you say, “If the law code was as bad as all that, it’s no better than sin itself.”. A new power is in operation. For instance, a wife is legally tied to her husband while he lives, but if he dies, she’s free. Everything in creation is being more or less held back. Scripture: Romans 6:1–14. And we know we are going to get what’s coming to us—an unbelievable inheritance! The good news is not only a gracious offer but a command to believe and repent. The law is good. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life. In Context Parallel Compare. If she lives with another man while her husband is living, she’s obviously an adulteress. If she lives with another man while her husband is living, she’s obviously an adulteress. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. I realize that I don’t have what it takes. 25 The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. The Solution Is Life on God’s Terms. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. Thus sin, the sting of death, received force or advantage to destroy by the commandment, Romans 7:8, Romans 7:11. The law code had a perfectly legitimate function. 26-28 Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. Dr. Packer teaches in a very realistic method emulating the old Puritan way, and brings a good message for the Church today. Is good just as dangerous as evil?” No again! To understand how the gifts of the Spirit are to operate in a local fellowship of Christians. 22-25 All around us we observe a pregnant creation. I truly delight in God’s commands, but it’s pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight. Delivered by the Spirit Romans 8:1-4. Paul explains how that happened in Romans 5:6-8. What Does It Mean to Fulfill the Law in Romans 8:3–4? 13 I can already hear your next question: “Does that mean I can’t even trust what is good [that is, the law]? So sin was plenty alive, and I was stone dead. However, here are some of the most loved verses. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children. John Piper Feb 8, 1981 2.5K Shares Sermon. It stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? God reins it in until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead. κ. Conference Message. Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The created world itself can hardly wait for what’s coming next. Romans 12:7-8 - We look today at the gifts of teaching, exhortation, giving, mercy, leading and serving. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God (Romans 8:7-8). Leave a comment with your favorite verse if it is not listed here. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely, Gain a concise, fundamental grasp of what the Bible is all about with our new, The Message, Ministry Edition: The Bible in Contemporary Language, The Message: Solo - An Uncommon Devotional, The Message Large-Print Devotional Bible, softcover, The Message Large-Print Deluxe Gift Bible--soft leather-look, navy. Romans 5:8 teaches us that the heart of God's love for us is, while we were sinners, Christ died for us. 25 The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. That is what the gospel is all about -- freedom! But once sin got its hands on the law code and decked itself out in all that finery, I was fooled, and fell for it. 8-12 Don’t you remember how it was? By hiding within God’s good commandment, sin did far more mischief than it could ever have accomplished on its own. Greek: tois men kath hupomonen ergou agathou doxan kai timen kai aphtharsian zetousin (PAPMPD) zoen aionion,. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. My decisions, such as they are, don’t result in actions. If we go through the hard times with him, then we’re certainly going to go through the good times with him! That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good. Apr 8, 2008. We, of course, don’t see what is enlarging us. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? We are enlarged in the waiting. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. For as long as we lived that old way of life, doing whatever we felt we could get away with, sin was calling most of the shots as the old law code hemmed us in. They kill us in cold blood because they hate you. Scripture: James 4:7-8; Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 4:16-18. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn’t deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us. And this made us all the more rebellious. Jesus laid down his life for us. The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. Contemporary Comparative Side-by-Side Bible (NIV, NKJV, NLT, THE Message), The Message Pocket Paperback Edition: New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs, The Message Raspberry Blossom, Personal Size + Topical Concordance, The Message Gift and Award Bible, Imitation Leather, Burgundy, The Message, Numbered Edition, Personal Size, with Topical Concordance, The Message Deluxe Gift Bible, Brown/Saddle Tan Leather-Look. But it’s not only around us; it’s within us. The very command that was supposed to guide me into life was cleverly used to trip me up, throwing me headlong. But now that we’re no longer shackled to that domineering mate of sin, and out from under all those oppressive regulations and fine print, we’re free to live a new life in the freedom of God. What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise. Defeated by the Law Romans 7:14-25. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Authority Of Law - Romans 7:1. By confessing with our mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and by believing this in our hearts, we are saved—nothing more, nothing less. Romans 8:7-8 is often used to defend the Calvinistic doctrines of Total Depravity and total inability. 7 Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the [] Law), that the [] Law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? Jesus laid down his life for you. God’s Spirit beckons. I decide to do good, but I don’t really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway. 8 1-2 With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens. CHAPTER 8. What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the command into a temptation, making a piece of “forbidden fruit” out of it. 8-12 Don’t you remember how it was? 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. … A new power is in operation. Is good just as dangerous as evil?” No again! But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. To get a more biblical philosophy of the church. Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. 4-6 So, my friends, this is something like what has taken place with you. Love is sacrifical, read John 15:13. Paul reveals to us that salvation is about grace alone, about faith in what He has done – “the righteous shall live by faith.” But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells—even though you still experience all the limitations of sin—you yourself experience life on God’s terms. 9-11 But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. What astounds me as we look into Romans 12 is the universality of the gifts of the Spirit and the call to all of us to do our part in a godly way. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy. The very command that was supposed to guide me into life was cleverly used to trip me up, throwing me headlong. Romans 10:16 "But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For instance, a wife is legally tied to her husband while he lives, but if he dies, she’s free. The law code had a perfectly legitimate function. The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. It’s adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike “What’s next, Papa?” God’s Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. Underlying question to this chapter that is still bothering some of you Jews, “Is the believer under the law?” Already told you Romans … And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun. That’s certainly not true. Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take charge. Romans 8:15-17 For ye have no… * 1 Hence, now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 29-30 God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?" In the end, all we had to show for it was miscarriages and stillbirths. What more could God have done to show you how much you matter to him? If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. The law code, instead of being used to guide me, was used to seduce me. After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. There are things to do and places to go! Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take charge. Twelve Theses. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time. FROM TEXT TO TEACHING: ROMANS 8 Getting the Message Clear: The Theme. 21-23 It happens so regularly that it’s predictable. Without its clear guidelines for right and wrong, moral behavior would be mostly guesswork. These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance. Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson, The Message (MSG). But if he dies, she is quite free to marry another man in good conscience, with no one’s disapproval. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. 7 1-3 You shouldn’t have any trouble understanding this, friends, for you know all the ins and outs of the law—how it works and how its power touches only the living. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one. For if I know the law but still can’t keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help! So sin was plenty alive, and I was stone dead. In between, the argument progresses in two main stages with a conclusion. We’re also feeling the birth pangs. Romans 7 New American Standard Bible (NASB) Believers United to Christ. The law code had a perfectly legitimate function. Romans is the fort Knox of the Christians faith, written to the center of the Roman civilization, it is the doctrine of the gospel – the problem with mankind and the living hope in Christ. For if I know the law but still can’t keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture: They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one. The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up. Next message: Carl W. Conrad: "Re: Romans 7:7-8" Previous message: Carl W. Conrad: "Fwd: Re: Iliad/ Odyssey" Next in thread: Carl W. Conrad: "Re: Romans 7:7-8" Maybe reply: Carl W. Conrad: "Re: Romans 7:7-8" Messages sorted by: [ attachment ] Mail actions: [ respond to this message ] [ mail a new topic ] 7 We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. I. 7 1-3 You shouldn’t have any trouble understanding this, friends, for you know all the ins and outs of the law—how it works and how its power touches only the living. We are not speaking about that. Sin simply did what sin is so famous for doing: using the good as a cover to tempt me to do what would finally destroy me. 2 For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed you from the law of sin and death. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. Without all the paraphernalia of the law code, sin looked pretty dull and lifeless, and I went along without paying much attention to it. There is no way! IV. 18-21 That’s why I don’t think there’s any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times. We go through exactly what Christ goes through. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time. Scripture: Romans 8:1–35. By hiding within God’s good commandment, sin did far more mischief than it could ever have accomplished on its own. Is there no one who can do anything for me? What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise. Utterly unfounded, in fine, is the objection of clumsiness (Hofmann); the symmetrical fulness of Romans 2:7-8, has a certain solemnity about it. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us. Apart from the succinct, surgical command, “You shall not covet,” I could have dressed covetousness up to look like a virtue and ruined my life with it. Romans 2:7 to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life (NASB: Lockman). None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. Isn’t this also your experience?” Yes. 1-2 With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Free from Sin, Slaves of Righteousness, Part 1 What is the Meaning of "Under Law" and "Under Grace"? I do, perfectly well. I’m at the end of my rope. But now that we’re no longer shackled to that domineering mate of sin, and out from under all those oppressive regulations and fine print, we’re free to live a new life in the freedom of God. 21-23 It happens so regularly that it’s predictable. Isn’t that the real question? I can will it, but I can’t do it. There’s nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The grand theme is assurance, from ‘no condemnation’ at the start to ‘no separation’ at the end of the chapter. Christ is the end of the law so we can be justified and made righteous by faith in Jesus alone. All manner of concupiscence - It showed what was evil and forbade it; and then the principle of rebellion, which seems essential to the very nature of sins rose up against the prohibition; and he was the more strongly incited to disobey in proportion as obedience was enjoined. Reiche and Hofmann, following Oecumenius, (616) Estius, and others, arrange it so that to δόξαν κ. τι΄. The first stage is verses 1-17, whose focus is the ministry of the Spirit. I decide to do good, but I don’t really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway. 24 I’ve tried everything and nothing helps. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? Scripture: Romans 8:3–4. For apart from the law, sin was dead. Romans 7 and 8 as he states is the home of … Union with Christ: Mind-Renewing Foundations Desiring God 2014 Conference for Pastors. And this made us all the more rebellious. 7 But I can hear you say, “If the law code was as bad as all that, it’s no better than sin itself.” That’s certainly not true. Conference Message. Upgrade to Bible Gateway Plus, and access the NEW NIV Study Bible Notes, Fully Revised Edition. 12-14 So don’t you see that we don’t owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Romans Children's Sermons for Romans 1 Romans 1:1-7 Hear the Call (Edstrom) Romans 1:16-17: 3:22b-28 It's Free (Edstrom) Children's Sermons for Romans 4 Romans 4:7-8 Be Happy (Edstrom) Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 Promise of Grace (Edstrom) Children's Sermons for Romans 5 Romans 5:1-11 The Right Fit (Edstrom) Romans 5:12-19 The Best Gift (Edstrom) Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won’t know what we’re talking about. This is the central declaration of the gospel: Christ has come, he has died, he has risen again, and he has come into our hearts by means of the Holy Spirit in order that we who believe in him might be free. 8 But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him. Romans 7:5; Romans 7:8 Read chapter in The Message Bible. I truly delight in God’s commands, but it’s pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight. Romans 10 teaches the word of faith. John Piper ... Sep 21, 1980 37 Shares Sermon. When Christ died he took that entire rule-dominated way of life down with him and left it in the tomb, leaving you free to “marry” a resurrection life and bear “offspring” of faith for God. 17-20 But I need something more! And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? The law code started out as an excellent piece of work. 14-16 I can anticipate the response that is coming: “I know that all God’s commands are spiritual, but I’m not. 15-17 This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that. Freedom from self-centeredness, freedom from hostility and bitterness,freedom from anxiety and all kinds of fears, freedo… 24 I’ve tried everything and nothing helps. The Spirit of God is arousing us within. For instance, a wife is legally tied to her husband while he lives, but if … When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. Romans 3:7-8 It’s simply perverse to say, “If my lies serve to show off God’s truth all the more gloriously, why blame me? It would be easy to select just about any verse from chapter 8 to be on the list. So if I can’t be trusted to figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that God’s command is necessary. I’m full of myself—after all, I’ve spent a long time in sin’s prison. 7 But I can hear you say, “If the law code was as bad as all that, it’s no better than sin itself.”. With God on our side like this, how can we lose? Isn’t this also your experience?” Yes. My decisions, such as they are, don’t result in actions. Without all the paraphernalia of the law code, sin looked pretty dull and lifeless, and I went along without paying much attention to it. 5-8 Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. I’m at the end of my rope. Without its clear guidelines for right and wrong, moral behavior would be mostly guesswork. 14-16 I can anticipate the response that is coming: “I know that all God’s commands are spiritual, but I’m not. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Amplified: To those who by patient persistence in well-doing [springing from piety] seek [unseen but sure] glory and honor and [the eternal … That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. 4-6 So, my friends, this is something like what has taken place with you. Isn’t that the real question? Dealing with Romans 8:4-7, the flesh opposed to the Spirit. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That's why Romans 5:8 points to the death of Christ. 13 I can already hear your next question: “Does that mean I can’t even trust what is good [that is, the law]? Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. The law code started out as an excellent piece of work. This is part two of my series the “Four Season of Life.” Last week I talked about our spiritual winters and this morning we will be examining our spiritual fall. Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson, The Message (MSG). 3-4 God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. I’m doing God a favor.” Some people are actually trying to put such words in our mouths, c | The Message (MSG) | Download The Bible App Now 7 1-3 You shouldn’t have any trouble understanding this, friends, for you know all the ins and outs of the law—how it works and how its power touches only the living. It is the message of good news which those feet carry that is so welcome. 7 But I can hear you say, “If the law code was as bad as all that, it’s no better than sin itself.” That’s certainly not true. Romans 7:8. Died To The Law - Romans 7:1-6 A. As a recap from last week, I told you that the Holy Spirit gave me an analogy about how we experience spiritual seasons. First 30-days on us! But if he dies, she is quite free to marry another man in good conscience, with no one’s disapproval. Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. If there had never been any law, there could not have been any sin, because sin is a breaking of law. The law code, instead of being used to guide me, was used to seduce me. Sinclair Ferguson Feb 4 ... Romans 6:12–14. Those who trust God’s action in them find that God’s Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! When Christ died he took that entire rule-dominated way of life down with him and left it in the tomb, leaving you free to “marry” a resurrection life and bear “offspring” of faith for God. I do, perfectly well. What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the command into a temptation, making a piece of “forbidden fruit” out of it. I realize that I don’t have what it takes. Dec 9, 2001. Who would dare even to point a finger? The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death. Without its clear guidelines for right and wrong, moral behavior would be mostly guesswork. 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