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Carl Westerlund :: Romans 7:5-6 - Then — “But Now”

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Romans in Outline No. 67

1.0  INTRODUCTION “FOR”

Romans 7:4

2.1  Why the bond to the law must be broken

2.2  Why the union to Christ is necessary

1.1  THE OLD LIFE

Romans 7:5

2.1  A life in the flesh

3.1  OTHER DEFINITIONS OF “FLESH”

4.1  All of mankind

Psalm 145:21

1 Peter 1:24

4.2  The physical body

Galatians 2:20

4.3  The sensuous part of our nature

Galatians 5:17

3.2  DEFINITION OF “IN THE FLESH”

= To be unregenerate Bodies ruled by old sin nature

Contrast to “in the Spirit”

John 3:6

3.3  COMPARISON TO “AFTER THE FLESH”

= To be a Christian, but living as though ‘in the flesh’ (carnal)

Romans 8:5; 8:12-13

3.4  THE PASSIONS OF SIN

= natural desires, normal desires

3.5  OPERATES IN PRODUCING THE FRUIT OF DEATH

Romans 6:23

Revelation 20:6

(The 2nd death)

2.2  A life the law could not help

3.1  “…IN THE FLESH…” COULD NOT KEEP THE LAW

3.2  PERVERSE LUST

= the desire to take normal desires out of bounds

3.3  LAW SHOWS THE BOUNDARIES

1.2  THE NEW LIFE “But now”

Romans 7:6

2.1  Other “But nows”

3.1   ROMANS 3:19-22

3.2   ROMANS 6:20-22

2.2  Deliverance from the law by death

3.1  DELIVERANCE FROM CONDEMNATION

Romans 8:1

3.2  DELIVERANCE FROM LAW’S INABILITY TO SANCTIFY

2.3  Service in newness of the Spirit

3.1  SERVE = ACT AS A SLAVE

Romans 6:16; 6:20; 6:22

3.2  THE CONTRAST BETWEEN “OLD” AND “NEW”

2 Corinthians 5:16-17

3.3  THE CONTRAST BETWEEN “LAW” AND “SPIRIT”

2 Corinthians 3

Romans 7:5-6

5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. (NKJV)

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