Book of Romans Study: Romans 7:1-25

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I.     Released from the Law  (Rom 7:1-6)

II.    Revelation of the Law    (Rom 7:7-13)

                III.  Reaction to the Law       (Rom 7:14-25)

We are released from the Law so that we can be joined to Christ and bear fruit for God.

Study Questions for Romans 7:1-23

1. To whom is Paul addressing his question? How long does the law have jurisdiction over a person? (7:1)

(DOC) To what law is Paul referring?

2.  What example does Paul use to illustrate the truth in 7:1 that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? (7:2-3)

(A) How does the death of Christ make you spiritually free as the death of a husband makes a woman free in regard to marriage?

           

3.  What is “therefore” there for? (7:4)

For what purpose were Paul’s brethren made to die to the Law through the body of Christ? (7:4)

To Whom would they be joined? For what purpose would they be joined to Him? (7:4)

4.  While we were in the flesh, what was at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death? By what were they aroused? (7:5)

(A)  Give examples of the sinful passions that were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. Why would the Law arouse these sinful passions?

5.  From what have we now been released, having died to that by which we were bound? (7:6a)

For what purpose have we been released from the Law? (7:6b)

(A) Give examples of how you serve in newness of Spirit rather than in oldness of the letter.

6.  How does Paul defend the goodness of the Law? (7:7) Explain how the Law’s revelation of sin proves that the Law is never sinful.

(A) Give other examples of things that are sinful that you would not have known were sinful apart from commands not to do them.

7.  How could Paul have once been alive apart from the Law? (7:9)

What happened when the commandment came? (7:9)

What was the intended result of the command? What was its proven result? (7:10)

8.  How is the Law described? How is the commandment described? (7:12)

9.  How does Paul answer his own rhetorical question, “Therefore did that which is good became a cause of death for me?”? (7:13)

What was the cause of Paul’s death? For what purpose did it become death for Paul? Through the commandment, what would sin become? (7:13)

10.  What do we know about the Law? How does Paul describe himself? (7:14)

           

11.  What does Paul not understand? Why is this confusing Paul? (7:15)

12.  With what does Paul agree and what does he confess if he does the very thing he does not want to do? (7:16)

Who is doing the thing that Paul does not want to do? (7:17)

(A)  What do you do that you do not want to do? According to Paul, who is doing it?

13.  How does Paul evaluate what is dwelling inside his flesh? What is present in Paul? What is not present in him? (7:18)

(A) What good intentions do you have that you are powerless to accomplish?

14.  What does Paul not do? What does he practice? (7:19)

(A) Give a personal example of how you can relate to what Paul is describing.

15.  If Paul is doing the very thing that he does not want, who is doing it? (7:20)

16.  What principle does Paul find? (7:21)

To what does Paul joyfully concur? What does he see in the members of his body? To what is he made a prisoner, which is in his members? (7:22-23)

17.  How does Paul describe himself? Who will set him free from the body of this death? To Whom and through Whom does Paul give thanks? (7:24-25a)

What does Paul conclude? (7:25b)

(A)  Describe what is at war in this passage. How have you experienced this same battle? In Whom will you trust and Who will you thank for setting you free?

18.  What do you learn about God in Rom 7:1-25? How could you apply this truth to your life?

Write a prayer response to Rom 7:1-25.

TEXT (NASB)

Rom. 7:1   Or do you not know,  brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives?  ² For  the married woman is bound by law to her  husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law  concerning the husband.  ³ So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man. 

Rom. 7:4   Therefore, my brethren, you also were  made to die  to the Law  through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.  ⁵ For while we were  in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were  aroused by the Law, were at work  in  the members of our body to bear fruit for death.  ⁶ But now we have been  released from the Law, having  died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in  newness of  the  Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. 

Rom. 7:7    What shall we say then? Is the Law sin?  May it never be! On the contrary,  I would not have come to know sin except  through the Law; for I would not have known about  coveting if the Law had not said, “ YOU SHALL NOT  COVET.”  ⁸ But sin,  taking opportunity  through the commandment, produced in me  coveting of every kind; for  apart  from the Law sin is dead.  ⁹ I was once alive apart  from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died;  ¹⁰ and this commandment, which was   to result in life, proved  to result in death for me;  ¹¹ for sin,  taking an opportunity  through the commandment,  deceived me and through it killed me.  ¹²  So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. 

Rom. 7:13   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 is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. 

Rom. 7:14   For we know that the Law is  spiritual, but I am  of flesh,  sold   into bondage to sin.  ¹⁵ For what I am doing,  I do not understand; for I am not practicing  what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.  ¹⁶ But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with  the Law, confessing that the Law is good.  ¹⁷ So now,  no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.  ¹⁸ For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my  flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.  ¹⁹ For  the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.  ²⁰ But if I am doing the very thing I do not want,  I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 

Rom. 7:21   I find then  the  principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.  ²² For I joyfully concur with the law of God  in  the inner man,  ²³ but I see  a different law in  the members of my body, waging war against the  law of my mind and making me a prisoner  of  the law of sin which is in my members.  ²⁴ Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from   the body of this  death?  ²⁵  Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh  the law of sin. 

Study Questions: Romans 6:1-23

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Study Questions: Romans 6:1-23

1. Romans 6 begins the section on sanctification (Rom 6:1-8:39). 

Using a Bible dictionary, look up the meaning of sanctification. Explain the major difference between salvation and sanctification.

2. Explain why Paul asks the following questions:

• “What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?” (6:1)
• “How shall we who died to sin still live in it? (6:2)
• “Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? (6:3)

3. What is the result of having been buried with Christ Jesus through baptism into death? (6:4)

4. What will be the result of becoming united with Christ Jesus in the likeness of His death? (6:5)

5. Why has our old self been crucified with Christ? To what would we no longer be slaves? (6:6) 

From what has he who has died been freed? (6:7)

(A) With what stubborn sin are you still struggling? How does the promise of freedom from bondage to sin encourage you?

6. What do we believe will happen to those who have died with Christ? (6:8)

(A) How can you die and be buried with Christ as you live today?

7. What will never happen to Jesus again? What is no longer master over Him? (6:9)

8. To what did Jesus die once for all? For Whom does Jesus live? (6:10) 

(A) Why is it important that Jesus died to sin once for all and that Jesus lives His life to God?

9. To what are you to consider yourself dead? To Whom are you to consider yourself alive? (6:11) 

(A) Describe your relationship with God in Christ Jesus.

10. What two things are you no longer to do? (6:12-13) 
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       2.


How are you to present yourself and your members to God? (6:13)

11. Why shall sin not be master over you? (6:14)

12. Explain why Paul asks the following questions. (6:15-16)

• What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace?
• Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

13. What was the result of when you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed? (6:17-18)

To what were you previously a slave? To what have you now become a slave? (6:17-18) 

(A) Explain what this means to you.

14. To what two things did you previously present your members as slaves? (6:19) 

(A) Give examples of each that you have observed in the world today.
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       2.

What will be the result of when you now present your members as slaves to righteousness? (6:19)

(A) What does it look like to be dead to sin but alive to Christ?

15. Why would Paul say that “when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness” (6:20)?

16. What was the outcome of the things of which you are now ashamed? (6:21)

Having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, what is the result? outcome?(6:22) 

(A) To whom/what are you enslaved? What will be the outcome?

17. What is the wages of sin? What is the free gift of God? (6:23) 

What do the following verses reveal about eternal life?

• Matt 25:46 
• John 3:14-16 
• John 3:36 
• John 5:24 
• John 6:27 
• John 6:47 
• John 10:28 
• John 17:3 
• 1John 5:20

18. What do you learn about God in Rom 6:1-23? How could you apply this truth to your life?

Write a prayer response to Rom 6:1-23: 

TEXT (NASB)

Rom 6:1   What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? ² May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? ³ Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? ⁴ Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. ⁵ For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, ⁶ knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; ⁷ for he who has died is freed from sin.

Rom 6:8   Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, ⁹ knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. ¹⁰ For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. ¹¹ Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Rom 6:12   Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, ¹³ and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. ¹⁴ For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Rom 6:15   What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! ¹⁶ Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, ¹⁸ and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. ¹⁹ I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.

Rom 6:20   For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ²¹ Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. ²² But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Book of Romans Study: Romans 6:1-23

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Having Been Crucified with Christ:

I.  No Longer Slaves to Sin   (6:1-11)

II. Now Enslaved to God   (6:12-23)

Having been crucified with Christ, we are no longer

slaves to sin but enslaved to God.

TEXT (NASB)

Rom 6:1   What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? ² May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? ³ Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? ⁴ Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. ⁵ For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, ⁶ knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; ⁷ for he who has died is freed from sin.

Rom 6:8   Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, ⁹ knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. ¹⁰ For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. ¹¹ Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Rom 6:12   Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, ¹³ and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. ¹⁴ For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Rom 6:15   What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! ¹⁶ Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, ¹⁸ and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. ¹⁹ I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.

Rom 6:20   For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ²¹ Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. ²² But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Study Questions: Romans 5:1-21

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Study Questions: Romans 5:1-21

1. Review: Explain what “justified by faith” means in your own words.

(DOC) What do the following verses reveal concerning the relationship between “the Law” and “justified by faith”?

Romans 3:28

Gal 2:16

Gal 3:24

2.  What is the result of having been justified by faith? (5:1) (A) What does it mean to you to have peace with God?

3.  What have we obtained through our Lord Jesus Christ? In what do we stand? In what hope do we exult? (5:2) 

(C)  Briefly explain the reference to the “glory of God” in the following verses:

            Psa 19:1                                              2Cor 4:6

            John 11:40                                         2Cor 4:15                  

            Acts 7:55                                            Phil 2:11

            Rom 3:23                                            Rev 15:8

            Rom 15:7                                            Rev 21:11

            1Cor 10:31                                         Rev 21:23

(A) How can you see God’s glory revealed in this life? How are you exulting in hope of the glory of God?

4.  What is the result of tribulation? Perseverance? Proven character? (5:3-4) 

(A) How have you personally benefitted from suffering and tribulation?

5.  Why does hope not disappoint? Through Whom has the love of God been poured out within our hearts? (5:5)

6.  What did Christ do while we were still helpless? For whom did Christ die? (5:6)

7.  How does God demonstrate His own love toward us? (5:7-8)

8.  By what have we been justified? From what have we been saved through Christ? (5:9) (DOC) Using a Bible dictionary, define “wrath.”

9.  Through what were we reconciled to God while we were enemies? Having been reconciled, by what shall we be saved? In what do we also exult? (5:10-11)

10.  What entered into the world through one man and spread to all men? Why did death spread to all men? (5:12) 

(C) Read Genesis 2:15-3:24.  What does God say will happen if Adam ate from the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden? (cf. Gen 2:15-17)

(DOC) Explain what you know about the doctrine of original sin.

11.  Explain why “sin is not imputed when there is no law” (5:13).

12.  Even before the Law was given, what reigned from Adam until Moses? (5:14)  (DOC) What is the relationship between sin and both physical and spiritual death?

13.  Explain how Adam is “a type of Him who was to come.” List the comparisons between Adam and Christ from these verses. (5:14)

14.  How is the free gift not like the transgression? (5:15-16)  What is the “gift”?

15.  What reigned by the transgression of the one? What will reign much more through the One, Jesus Christ? (5:17)  (A)  How is the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reigning in your life?

16.  What resulted through one transgression to all men? What resulted through one act of righteousness and the obedience of the One? (5:18-19)

17.  What was the purpose for the Law? As sin increased, what abounded all the more? (5:20)  As sin reigned in death, what would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord? (5:21) (DOC) Using a Bible dictionary, define “grace.” (A) When has God’s grace overcome the consequences of your sin?

18.  What do you learn about God in Rom 5:1-21? How could you apply this truth to your life?

Write a prayer response to Rom 5:1-21:

TEXT (NASB)

Rom. 5:1   Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,  ² through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.  ³ And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance;  ⁴ and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;  ⁵ and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. 

Rom. 5:6   For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.  ⁷ For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die.  ⁸ But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  ⁹ Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.  ¹⁰ For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.  ¹¹ And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. 

Rom. 5:12   Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned —  ¹³ for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.  ¹⁴ Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. 

Rom. 5:15   But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.  ¹⁶ The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification.  ¹⁷ For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. 

Rom. 5:18   So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.  ¹⁹ For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.  ²⁰ The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,  ²¹so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

Book of Romans Study: Romans 5:1-21

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This video is a discussion of Romans 5:1-21.

Eternal Security:

I.  Result of Justification by Faith (5:1-11)

II. Result of Jesus’ Righteous Act (5:12-21)

TEXT (NASB)

Rom. 5:1   Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,  ² through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.  ³ And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance;  ⁴ and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;  ⁵ and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. 

Rom. 5:6   For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.  ⁷ For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die.  ⁸ But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  ⁹ Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.  ¹⁰ For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.  ¹¹ And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. 

Rom. 5:12   Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned —  ¹³ for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.  ¹⁴ Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. 

Rom. 5:15   But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.  ¹⁶ The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification.  ¹⁷ For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. 

Rom. 5:18   So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.  ¹⁹ For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.  ²⁰ The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,  ²¹ so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.