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Romans 7

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verses 1

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to 32.

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Or do you not know brothers

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in the old way of the written code.

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What then shall we say?

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That the law is sin

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by no means?

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Yet, if it had not been for the

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law,

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I would not have known sin.

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For apart from the law, sin lies dead.

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I was once alive apart from the law.

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But when the commandment came,

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sin came alive

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and died.

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The very commandment upon this life

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to be death to me.

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For sin,

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seizing an opportunity through the commandment,

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to see me and through it, kill me.

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So God is holy

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and the commandment is holy

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and righteous

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and good.

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Did that which is good then bring death

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to me?

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By no means,

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it was sin

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producing

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death in me through what is good

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to mankind and to society.

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Indeed, it's a wonderful blessing

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to all creation.

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It is intended to be a source of

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joy

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for Mary Carver.

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It is intended to be a source

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of sanctification

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as the Mary covered how to help, how

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to comfort, and how to serve your life,

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both in times of prosperity

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and in times of adversity.

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Of course,

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when God so wills, marriage is the sacred

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instrument

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for the profane of children

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and for their nurture

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in the knowledge

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and in the love

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of the Lord.

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So that's one of the most surprising to

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us that in our rebellious world,

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marriage and marriages

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are under attack.

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Society is literally

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hell bent

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serve,

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and honor our spouses.

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And we were weary of one another.

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And we become vulnerable

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to the Serpent's voice. So this was in

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our ears,

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has God said?

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For the way which we have chosen to

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lord over our spouse instead of honoring and

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serving them,

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we instead attempt

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to look for excuses to end the marriage,

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or we flat out the way they come

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into marriage,

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through adultery,

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or through

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abandonment.

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Oh, we can look into the deepest recesses

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of our hearts. We can realize

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that it is only God's restraining

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love

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that not only prevents us from doing irreparable

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damage in our marriage,

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but also

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makes

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us makes this marriage, this covenant bond between

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2 sinners,

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amazingly,

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it's worth a blessing

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and joy

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and sanctification.

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Praise be to God that mercy triumphs our

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judgment.

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Praise be to God that love covers the

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multitude of sin.

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Christ is our perfect and longsuffering,

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bright red.

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And yet, in this morning text from Romans,

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Paul tells us that there is a kind

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of marriage

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from which Christians have, thankfully,

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been delivered.

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Sin has a legal or covenantal

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claim over every human being,

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as a husband,

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has over a wife.

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But if you're a Christian,

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Paul writes that you're no longer part of

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that wretched meaning.

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Your legal meaning to sin has been turning,

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and therefore,

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the law's relationship to you

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has changed.

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So let's

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But if her husband dies, she is released

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from the law of marriage.

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Accordingly,

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she will be called an adulteress

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if she lives with another man while her

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husband is alive. But if her husband dies,

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she is freed from the law. And if

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she

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the

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what therefore bodies will be together,

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let it know and separate.

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So because the characters intended by God to

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be for life,

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Paul knows that death, therefore,

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legally and rightly,

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is the avenue that releases a spouse from

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the laws of the man upon him or

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her

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with respect

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to marriage.

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Paul knows that a woman's husband dies

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and she marries another man, she's not in

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notice because the death of her husband leaves

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her from

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the law fleeing

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over her in regard

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to marriage.

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In verse 4, Paul interprets the marriage metaphor

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as it relates to the laws power

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over the Christian.

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He writes,

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likewise, my brothers, you also abide to the

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law through the body of Christ.

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Christ,

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Christ

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died, we died in Him.

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Since therefore, a death has stayed in place.

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Our covenantal union to sin our marriage to

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sin, as it were,

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has been broken

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in full accordance

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with the stipulations of the law.

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And, we are free to marry another.

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Namely,

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we are free to marry he who has

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been raised

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from the dead.

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This is a reminder to us of the

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vital nature

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of the deliverance from the law.

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Christ was slain

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and we were put to death in him.

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Death,

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He was taken and slain. And He kneel

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it. And He gave Himself for the joy

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that was set before

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the law determined the conditions for your justification.

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And the conditions could be summarized by 2

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words,

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perfect obedience.

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Those were the conditions.

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You wanna be justified

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under that agreement?

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You wanna be right under that agreement? Here's

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what's the method. Simple two words, perfect

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It was Christ's death on the cross that

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liberated you from the law's demands.

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Only when we realize how much our freedom

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from sin costs

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will we be driven to appreciate,

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This means that your Lord and my room

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has the power of life

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and expects you to bear fruit that reflects

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his character.

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So it's good for us to always, especially,

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be thinking about the nature of our fruit.

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What does it look like?

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So the fruit that you produce from that

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union, I can eat like you.

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It's just reflecting

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you. Do your words encourage,

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exhort,

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excite,

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Equip,

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and Emile.

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Do your works,

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construct,

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create,

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connect,

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correct,

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and comfort.

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So that we serve in the new way

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of the Spirit and not in the old

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way of what it was said.

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Under the power of the law, in the

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way the written codes, Paul puts it, the

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Froomey Boar was only suitable

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for death.

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Paul's personification

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of death here presents it as a deity

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who receives authority.

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Our former marriage to sin,

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under the powerful binding of the law, bore

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indulgeless

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of our justification.

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Remember, the terms for perfect obedience.

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As for the loved man, who doesn't demand

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that from us, anyone, not a business view

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or anything. We abide in that arrangement. We

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are free from that arrangement. We have to

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contain that

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by no spouse,

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I didn't even know what coming was, Paul

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says. Until I read the law, you shall

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not know him. Perhaps remember a time when

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you lived in blissful ignorance of God's

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law. Or you have friends or family members

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who are early living

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That's the problem. That's the issue. That's what

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disqualifies us.

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What Paul says in verses 7:8

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is not

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that the law produces sin,

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but that the law excites sin that is

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already there.

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That's the issue.

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In this sense, sin

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is like the electrons that have photoboltaic cells.

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These are electron cells that activate

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when there are stars to light.

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When the light shines on them, the

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light excites them into action and they get

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to work.

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So also, sin

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is present in every human part.

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And even if some symbol for Clippians lie

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dormant

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and undetected as if

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dead, Paul writes that when the life of

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the law shines on them,

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sin is in silent action

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and begins his destructive,

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deadly work.

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The idea that sin is not sin until

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you act

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is not a biblical

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idea.

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In fact,

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in verse 8, when we read that sin

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sees an opportunity through the law,

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Again, the Greek word translated as opportunity there

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means

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starting point or

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base of operations.

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It's a sin the law, which comes from

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God,

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reminds the sinful heart that its rebellion is

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coming,

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causing the heart to activate its boundary and

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to seize the base on which it can

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launch and attacks.

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Sin was already there.

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It detestating

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that comes from God.

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That's not

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happening.

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But we have to curate what is that

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we are consuming, what is coming into our

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minds, what is coming into our eyes, what

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is coming into our hearts.

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We need to repent

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our corrupt desires, even if we don't have

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them. The God Almighty does not

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the life of the law showed

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on man, it killed his bride. Paul realized

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that he was dead. And that realization actually

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liberated Paul from his bondage to the laws

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of the man

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as he understood

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that he would not be justified by the

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works of the law.

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produced

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repentance in

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him.

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Okay. So what's the law's product?

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First of all, before God gives us eyes

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to see our own sinfulness,

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the law produces rebellion, misery, and despair. Because

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we're a rebellion, misery, and despair. Because we're

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a rebellion,

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So in the immigrant heart,

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the law often produces more sin,

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which only leads to greater rebellion,

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to greater misery,

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and to greater despair.

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Paul does any doubts

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about the goodness of the law to rest

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in verse 12, where he describes a lot

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as holy,

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righteous,

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and good.

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Those adjectives speak for themselves.

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In Paul

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through the law in order to expose the

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sinfulness of sin

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as a word.

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Therefore, from our text this morning,

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we learned that the law has various good

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purposes

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or applications

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for the person whom the Lord calls.

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First of all,

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because the law of God reflects God's character,

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it provides a path

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for us to better understand God's willingness.

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In a goal, joy, ours,

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where ethics are malleable

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and everything is permissible,

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it is good to ascertain

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the non negotiable

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holiness

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that God expects,

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that God demands

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from any person who would walk with Him

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and enjoy communion with Him.

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As we better understand God's holiness,

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any misguided,

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That gives us a clear

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picture of our own sinfulness,

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which sets us on a course toward repentance

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and humility and ultimately allows us to apprehend

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our great need for a saving. Do you

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see what great mercy is? It's a painful

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person.

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A severe mercy.

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To actually have something that pierces

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to our very heart, that shows the state

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of our soul, that shows our sin,

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in building our defenses against

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sin. Through our faithful participation in corporate worship,

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in family worship,

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through the diligent study of God's word,

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the

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That's essential.

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The preaching of the law is essential, and

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the gospel is the meaning to us.

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How do we get the law preached? The

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whole council of law has to be preached.

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So it matters what is being preached for

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the public. And we ought to demand that

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the whole council of law has to be

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preached.

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God's Son, the faithful white womb of the

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Church, promises to break the condemning power of

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God's law over us.

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He promises to produce the fruit of the

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Spirit in our lives.