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Carl Westerlund :: Romans 7:12-14a - The Spiritual Nature of the Law

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Romans in Outline No. 70

1.1  THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LAW INDICATE THAT IT IS NOT AT FAULT

Romans 7:12

2.1  The law is holy

3.1  GOD IS HOLY

1 Peter 1:15-16

3.2  WE ARE CALLED TO HOLINESS

1 Peter 1:15-16

3.3  THE LAW SHOWS WHAT THAT MEANS

2.2  The law is just

(Note: just, justify, justification, righteous, righteousness — same root)

3.1  SAVING RIGHTEOUSNESS

4.1  Man can not produce the necessary absolute righteousness

Romans 3:10

4.2  The standard of righteousness is presented in the law

Romans 3:19-21

4.3  Christ in His finished work provided righteousness

Romans 3:22-26

4.4  This righteousness if appropriated by faith

Romans 3:22-26

3.2  SANCTIFYING RIGHTEOUSNESS:

4.1  The believer is called to a life characterized by righteousness

Romans 6:16-19

4.2  The law revealed the standard that God desires for his children

Romans 7:7-10

4.3  The law could not produce the righteousness God desires in the believer

Romans 8:2-3

2.3  The law is good

THE LAW SHOWS THE STANDARD

Psalm 19:7-11

1.2  THE FUNCTIONS OF THE LAW

Romans 7:13

2.1  Summary: The law reveals sin for what it is — death sentencing

2.2  The law shows how terrible sin is

1.3  THE NATURE OF THE LAW: SPIRITUAL

Romans 7:14a

Indicates the divine origin and character of the law

Romans 7:12-14a

12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. 13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, (NKJV)

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