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 The Book of Romans
Contents

1 The Apostle Paul in Rome Historical Background

2 The Controversy Theological Background
3 The Human Condition Chapters 1-3A
4 Justified by Faith Chapter 3B
5 The Faith of Abraham Chapter 4
6 Adam and Jesus Chapter 5
7 Overcoming Sin Chapter 6
8 Who is the Man of Romans 7 Chapter 7
9 No Condemnation Chapter 8
10 Children of the Promise Chapter 9
11 The Elect Chapters 10, 11
12 Overcoming Evil with Good Chapters 12, 13
13 Christian Living Chapters 14-16
 The Book of Romans
Our Goal

The Epistle is really the chief part of

the New Testament and the very purest
Gospel, and is worthy not only that
every Christian should know it word for
word, by heart, but occupy himself with
it every day, as the daily bread of the
soul.Martin Luther, Commentary on
Romans, 8.
The Book of Romans
Lesson 8, November 25

Who Is the Man of

Romans 7?
 Who is the Man of Romans 7?
Key Text

Romans 7:6
Now we are delivered from the
law, that being dead wherein we
were held; that we should serve in
the newness of spirit, and not in
the oldness of the letter.
 Who is the Man of Romans 7?
Initial Words

Bible students differ on whether

Romans 7 was Pauls experience
before or after conversion.
Whats important is that Jesus
righteousness covers us and that in His
righteousness we stand perfect before
God, who promises to sanctify us, to
give us victory over sin, and to conform
us to the image of his Son (8:29).
 Who is the Man of Romans 7?
Quick Look

1. Bound to the Law?

(Romans 7:1-6)
2. Law Reveals Our Sin
(Romans 7:7-10)
3. Struggling With Sin
(Romans 7:14-25)
 Who is the Man of Romans 7?
1. Bound to the Law?
Romans 7:1-6 NKJV
Do you not knowthat the law has
dominion over a man as long as he
lives? For the woman who has a
husband is bound by the law to her
husband as long as she lives. But if the
husband dies, she is released from the
law of her husband. But now
we have been delivered from the
 1. Bound by the Law?
Relationship to the Law Illustrated

In essence, Pauls illustration is as

follows: a woman is married to a man.
The law binds her to him as long as he
lives. During his lifetime she cannot
consort with other men.
But when he dies, she is free from the
law that bound her to him (vs 3).
 1. Bound by the Law?
Relationship to the Law Illustrated

As the death of her husband delivers

the woman from the law of her
husband, so the death of the old life in
the flesh, through Jesus Christ, delivers
the Jews from the law they had been
expected to keep until the Messiah
fulfilled its types.
Now the Jews were free to remarry;
free to abandon the ancient system.
 Who is the Man of Romans?
2. Law Reveals Our Sin
Romans 7:7-10 NKJV
Is the law sin? I would not have
known sin except through the law.
For apart from the law sin was dead.
I was alive once without the law, but
when the commandment came, sin
revived and I died.
And the commandment, which was
to bring life, I found to bring death.
 2. Law Reveals Our Sin
Is the Law Sin?

The word law for Paul is the whole

system introduced at Sinai, which
included the moral law but wasnt
limited to it. Hence, Paul could quote
from it in order to make his points.
When the system passed away at the
death of Christ, that didnt include the
moral law, which had existed even
before Sinai and exists after Calvary.
 2. Law Reveals Our Sin
Is the Law Sin?

Paul is trying to build a bridge to lead

the Jewswho revere the lawto
see Christ as its fulfillment. He is
showing that the law was necessary but
that its function was limited.
The law was meant to show the need of
salvation; it never was meant to be the
means of obtaining that salvation.
 2. Law Reveals Our Sin
Is the Law Sin?

For that we need Jesus, because the

lawthe entire Jewish system or the
moral lawcannot bring salvation. Only
Jesus and His righteousness, which
comes to us by faith, can.
He chooses to blame sin, not the law,
for his sinful condition. The law is good,
for it is Gods standard of conduct, but
as a sinner, Paul stood condemned
 Who is the Man of Romans 7?
3. Struggling With Sin

Romans 7:14-25 NKJV

I am carnal, sold under sin. For
the good that I will to do, I do not do;
but the evil I will not to do, that I
practice. ... O wretched man that
I am! Who will deliver me from this
body of death?
I thank Godthrough Jesus Christ
our Lord!
 3. Struggling With Sin
A Terrible Sinner

Paul describes himself as sold under

sin. He is a slave to sin. He has no
freedom. He cant do what he wants to
do. He tries to do what the good law
tells him to do, but sin wont let him.
Living under the law
means enslavement to sin,
a merciless master.
 3. Struggling With Sin
A Terrible Sinner

Unfortunately, by failing to renew

their dedicaion to Christ daily, many
Christians are, in effect serving sin.
They rationalize that, in reality,
they are undergoing the normal
experience of sanctification and
that they simply still have a long
way to go.
 3. Struggling With Sin
The Man of Romans 7

Thus, instead of taking known sins to

Christ and asking Him for victory over
them, they hide behind Romans 7,
which tells them, they think, that it is
impossible to do right.
In reality, this chapter is saying that it is
impossible to do right when a person is
enslaved to sin, but victory is possible
in Jesus Christ.
 Who is the Man of Romans 7?
Final Words

Left to ourselves, without Christ,

we are helpless against sin.
With Christ we have a new life in
Him, one in whichthough self will
constantly arisethe promises of
victory are ours if we choose to
claim them. No one can choose to
surrender to Christ for you.
You alone can make that choice.