1. Who can help me stop doing the things I don’t want to do?
EUROGOSPEL
Who can help me stop doing the things I don’t want to do?
Romans 7:15-8:17

3. “For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose.
And there I found what appalled me: a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. I am a walking civil war.”
C.S.LEWIS ‘Conversation with God’

4. “I do not understand what I do
“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.”
Romans 7:15
“ - a walking civil war.”

5. “Who will rescue me from this ‘body of death’?” (7:24)
THE CHRISTIAN CIVIL WAR
spiritual v unspiritual (14) what I want to do v what I actually do (15-20) the law of sin v the law of my mind (21-24) good v evil (21) law of sin v law of God (25) the sinful nature v the Spirit (8:5-11)
“Who can help me!”
“Who will rescue me from this ‘body of death’?” (7:24)

6. ‘Thanks be to God - through Jesus Christ our Lord!’ (7:25)
Father, Son & Spirit
- all the King’s horses and all the King’s men

7. Are you saved? “I have been saved from the penalty of sin”
“I am being saved from the power of sin”
“I will be saved from the presence of sin”
God has saved me. God is saving me. God will save me.

8. I have been saved from the penalty of sin (8:1-4)
“He set me free from the law of sin and death” “He did what the law could not do” “He condemned sin”
PERFECT TENSE

9. I am being saved from the power of sin (8:5-17)
He controls me (9) He makes me alive (10,11) He puts my sin to death (13) He leads me (14) He fathers me (14-17)
PRESENT CONTINUOUS

10. I will be saved from the presence of sin (7:24, 8:11,17)
He will rescue me He will give me life I will share His glory as His heir
FUTURE (PERFECT)

11. We’re not home yet!