What the Law Could Not Do

Scripture: Romans 8:3-4“For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not […]

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No Condemnation

Scripture: Romans 8:1-2“Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.” ReflectionAfter all the honest wrestling in chapter 7, Paul lands here: no condemnation. Not “less condemnation” or […]

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Thanks Be to God

Scripture: Romans 7:24-25“Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!” ReflectionPaul’s cry of “Wretched man that I am!” isn’t the end of the story — it’s the hinge on which the whole passage turns. The question “Who will […]

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The War Within

Scripture: Romans 7:21-23“I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making […]

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Holy, Righteous, and Good

Scripture: Romans 7:12-13“So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which […]

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