1. Exodus 6:7 (ESV) I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the L ORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

2. Every Christian’s Battle Romans 7

3. Relationship between Sin and Law SIN Died to Sin (6:2) Baptism: Dying to Sin with Christ (6:2-3) Freed from Sin (6:7, 18, 22) Sanctification Leading to Eternal Life (6:22) So We Walk in New Life (6:4) LAW Die to the Law (7:4, 6) Marriage: Dying to Law through Christ (7:1-4) Released from the Law (7:6) In Order that We Bear Fruit for God (7:4) So We Serve in the Newness of the Spirit (7:6) Does Law = Sin?

4. “Is the Law sin?” (7:7) Law Defines Sin (7) Law Empowers Sin (8) Law Enlivens Sin (9) Law Results in Death (10-11) BUT THE LAW IS HOLY, RIGHTEOUS, AND GOOD! (12)

5. How Does Paul Write in 14-25? 1.As a lost soul? 2.As a Jew under the Old Law? 3.As an immature Christian? 4.As himself, a mature, saved Christian?

6. How Does Paul Write in 14-25? 1.Present tense (14-15) vs. past tense (7-11) 2.Doing the things I hate (15) 3.Agree with the law: law is good (16) 4.“nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh” (18) 5.The willing is present (18) – I want good (19, 21) 6.Wretched man! (24)

7. How Should We View Our Sin? 1.I Love God’s Law (12, 22) 2.I Hate what I Just Did (15) 3.Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me? (24) 4.I thank God through Jesus Christ! (25) Image by “Sander van der Wel” on Flickr