1. ROMANS 6 ROMANS 7
SIN LAW
Key Word in Chapter (see Ro 6:1, 2, 6, 7, 10-23) (see Ro 7:1-14, 16, 22, 25)
11 times 18 times
Believer’s Believer’s Relationship Believer’s Relationship
Relationship to Sin to Law
Sin had dominion The Law had dominion
Dominion (Ro 6:14) (Ro 7:1)
I died to (the) Sin I died to the law
Death (Ro 6:2) (Ro 7:4)
Free from Sin Free (delivered) from the law
Freedom (Ro 6:18) (Ro 7:3,6)
Walk in newness of LIFE Serve in newness of SPIRIT
Newness (Ro 6:4) (Ro 7:6)
Fruit of Flesh
Romans 6:21KJV Romans Ro 7:5
Fruit of Spirit (God’s Romans 6:22KJV Romans Ro 7:4
life)
MARRIED? YES! BUT, TO WHICH HUSBAND?
Freed from the Law so Love of God Is Possible
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KNOW YE NOT, BRETHREN (FOR I SPEAK TO THEM THAT NOW THE LAW) HOW THAT
THE LAW HATH DOMINION OVER A MAN AS LONG AS HE LIVETH? VS. 1
23 times in chapter four there is reference to the LAW. The Law of God’s really is glorious thought.
We are dead to the LAW it is still a good law.
 Psalms 119:7-10, 12, 16, 18, 77,96, 136, 142, 165, 174
 Deut. 27:26, Eccl. 12:13; Deut. 6:1-15. Obey my commandments
 Isaiah 42:21: So much greatness was given to the Law
 Exodus 18:16 Malachi 4:4 Last command in the O.T.
 John 9 Acts 21:20, 27 Philippians 3:4-6 Hebrews 2:2 Acts 7:38, 53
 Romans 7:12,14,22 I Timothy 1:8
LIVING UNDER THE LAW CERTAINLY CAN CAUSE TENTION IN A CHURCH BODY.
So we need to learn the difference of living “UNDER LAW’ and living “UNDER
GRACE.”
In Romans 7:1-5, if you look carefully, Paul clearly shows us how it was when we had no choice but
to be under the law. In verses 1-4 we see that the law ruled over us to control and condemn the works
of our flesh when we were in union with Adam. We were not married to the law before our union with
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2. Christ. We were in union with Adam, and the LAW had jurisdiction over us as long as we were in this
joining together with Adam.
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Do” you not know
 Paul is saying: Have you not had enough information about this. Do you not recognize (Acts
13:27) this. More than likely the term KNOW conveys the idea that there was a lacking of
ability to understand (Hebrews 5:2) There is an inexcusable moral/ethical ignorance (even a
disregard to).
NOT KNOWING: Paul uses a lot in Romans. And Paul uses the term to introduce us to a new spiritual
truth that the reader should be aware of:
 Romans 2:4, 6:3; 7:1; 10:3; 11:25
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 Paul is speaking her to those who had a knowledge of a general principle of ALL law, not just
THE LAW of Moses. What he is saying or pointing out its character as law, that which has
binding force, which of course is the fundamental character of any law or regulation.
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HOW THAT THE LAW HATH DOMINION OVER A MAN AS LONG AS HE
LIVETH.
 The law had the power of control. There are those who exercise authority or have control over
others, They lord over others, the have jurisdiction over someone. Luke 22:25; Romans 14:9; 2
Corinthians 1:24.
 Those things that control human life: the Law (Romans 7:1), SIN (Romans6:14), and
DEATH (Romans 6:9).
 So Paul is personifies the Law as that which controls human life.
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For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he
liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 3So then if,
while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress:
but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though
she be married to another man.
 The Picture Of The Law - In these verses, Paul uses the image of marriage to demonstrate what
he means. He tells us as long as a woman's husband is alive, she is bound to him by the law of
marriage. If she leaves him for another, she is guilty under those laws and is still her husbands
wife. However, if her husband dies, she is free to marry again, because she has been liberated
from the law of her husband.
(The whole idea of this passage is not to give us a discourse on marriage, but to remind us that the only way
to be free from the confines and demands of the Law is for us to be dead. Until we die, the Law hangs over
our heads making demands that we can never hope to keep. However, at death, we are set free from these
terrible demands.)
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3. REMARRIED AND HAPPY AT LAST, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Romans 7:4 Sermon #45.83
Charles e Whisnant, Pastor/Teacher, August 14, 2011
The Goal of Preaching: Not trying to pressurize people into good
behavior, but calling them to the good Savior.
“No sermon should be considered alone. We are ministering to people week after week, and one
message fortifies another. The harvest is not the end of the meeting; it is the end of the age.”Phillips
Brooks (1835-1893).
Romans 7:4
Wherefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law by the body of
Christ; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the
dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
 Galatians 2:19-20; 3:13; 5:18; Ephesians 2:15; Colossians 2:14,20
God's purpose is that Jesus Christ, the incarnate, perfect, crucified, sin-bearing
substitute, risen, and glorified, be the focus of and get the glory for our justification and
sanctification.
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Wherefore Romans 7:4
 As we have said before, means so that, as a consequent the following is the result.
You also are become dead (you have died) 2289 thanatoo to the law 7:4
 Of course this is used figuratively. The believer has died supernatural when Christ died. The
believer has died to the curse that was placed upon him
 DIED? Grammar: aorist tense: that is , past tense, that is, an historical event. You can be sure
this is the truth. As a result of this past action, you can rest, you are free of the penalty.
Christ Jesus the Lord, not the law, not the church, not rules, now have control over me. The rule of law
that I live is “CHRIST.”
 Its not a matter of striving, and trying but folks its trusting and relying, depending, having faith
or confidence in Christ.
 We are as believers called and empowered, i.e. we have been given a greater sense of confidence
to live a holy life. I Peter 1:14-16. We serve not out of fear we will be punished but out of a love
for Christ and a real desire to be pleasing to Him because He is our Heavenly Father
 The Law is a real bad husband. You know one who is strict, inflexible, rigid, so demanding, and
really rather unbending.
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4.  Christ is a astonishing husband. Merciful, gracious and He, by His power and life has facilitate
or enable me to please Him. Hebrews 13:21.
By the body of Christ: Romans 7:4b
 Matthew 26:26; John 5:51; I Corinthians 10:16 and Hebrews 10:;19
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That you should be married (joined) to another, even to Him who is rasied
from the dead. Romans 7:4c
Paul is going to give us two reasons for our marriage to Christ.
 We might belong to Christ and
 Secondly we are to be fruit bearers for the glory of God.
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SO THAT WE SHOULD BRING FORTH FRUIT UNTO GOD. Romans 7:4d
 We were saved, and set free from this wrath of God so that, with the purpose in
John MacArthur points out as well:
 Godly fruit exists basically in two dimensions: (a transformed life that manifest godly) attitudes
and actions. The fruit of the Holy Spirit in a believer’s life is manifested internally in his
attitudes of Galatians 5:22 and 23. As far a godly actions are concerned, Jesus said, “I am the
true vine, and My Father is the vine dresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He
takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may bear more fruit” John
15:1-2.
 As Hebrews 13:15 tells us, “the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name.”
 Then there is the fruit of righteousness that gives Christ the glory and praise unto God.
Philippians 1:11. 11Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the
glory and praise of God.
So as Believers we are to live a holy life. This is the whole idea of what Paul is pointing out. The
tendency or the general inclination of the Gospel is to bring about a behavior that is going to bring
glory of God.
 The whole purpose of our being born again, set free, is for the purpose that we might be able to
bring to Christ a live holy unto Him. Fruit then is the expression of life, and in the Bible fruit is
indicative of converts, character and conduct
WHEN I SEE MY SELF, I SEE CHRIST. WHO DO I WANT TO BE LIKE, TALK LIKE,
WORK LIKE, WHO DO I WANT TO PLEASE? CHRIST or SELF?
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5. A New Nature of Righteousness So As To Live For Christ
ROMANS 7:5-8 #45.83 Charles e Whisnant, August 21, 2011
Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sin (sinful passion,) which
were by (through) the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death
 When we were lost, in the past, when we were unregenerate, under the rule and control of our
fallen sin nature inherited from Adam, when we were not saved, we had no choice but to yield to
the sinful passions of life .
HOW DO WE KNOW ALL THIS THAT WE DO IS WRONG? ONLY BY THE LAW:
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THE SINFUL PASSIONS OR “THE MOTIONS OF SIN”.
 What the law does is to stimulate our sinful passions.
WHICH WERE BY (THROUGH) THE LAW
 When there is a LAW that says you can’t do it, the flesh says “I want to do it.”
What the LAW does is to stir up in us what is right and what is wrong and in so doing, in the lost person
it just provokes one to do it.
Let Us Just Face It: The Human Being Is Essentially Rebellious
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DID WORK IN OUR MEMBERS
 Can I say, that in the unsaved person, there is this continual activity in them, that is so
overpowering that it causes them to do sometimes the very opposite of what they would
generally do. The influence that this inter power has over them, just is so powerful they end up
doing that which that might not have otherwise done. “NO NORMAL PERSON WOULD
HAVE DONE THAT.” The man in Norway who shot down 77 people in August 2011.
 TO BRING FORTH FRUIT UNTO DEATH
 C H Spurgeon explains the fruit-bearing nature of sinful passions aroused by the law writing
that...
 It is not the nature of sin to remain in a fixed state. Like decaying fruit, it grows more rotten.
The man who is bad today will be worse tomorrow. Every week that he lives, he adds some
new evil habit to all that he had before, until the chain, which at first seemed but a silken cord,
becomes at last an adamantine fetter, in which he is held fast so that he cannot escape. It is
impossible to say how far men will wander away from God!
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6. BUT NOW……But now under the Gospel.
 Now Paul is going to illustrate Romans 7:5 and more at length in Romans 8:1-39 what
happens when the Gospel gets to us.
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WE ARE DELIVERED FROM THE LAW Romans 7:6
 We as believers have been released from the power or the force of that which was in our nature
to cause us to sin against God.
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SO THAT WE SERVE 1398 IN NEWNESS OF THE SPIRIT
 Herein is the fulfillment of Ezekiel’s prophecy of the New Covenant where God promised a
spiritual “heart transplant” for Israel. Ezekiel 11:19-20; 36:26, 27; Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4,8; 2:33
and John 7:39
THE NEWNESS OF THE SPIRIT
 Now once this old, insubordinate, rebellious, self-deifying, law-hating self dies with Christ. And
we rise to walk in newness of life there is a change and a new love for Christ.
Two things are certain in nature.
Natural inclinations never change, but by some superior virtue.
 The wolf can never love the lamb, nor the lamb the wolf; nothing but must act suitably to its
nature.
 Water cannot but moisten, fire cannot but burn. So likewise the corrupt nature of man being
possessed with an invincible contrariety and enmity to God, will never suffer him to comply with
God.
 And the inclinations of a sinner to sin being more strengthened by the frequency of sinful acts,
have as great a power over him, and as natural to him, as any qualities are to natural agents: and
being stronger than any sympathies in the world, cannot by a man’s own power, or the power of
any other nature equal to it, be turned into a contrary channel.
(2.) Nothing can act beyond its own principle and nature.
 Nothing in the world can raise itself to a higher rank of being than that which nature has placed it
in; a spark cannot make itself a star, though it mount a little up to heaven;
o Nor a plant endue itself with sense, nor a beast adorn itself with reason; nor a man make
himself an angel. Thorns cannot bring forth grapes, nor do thistles produce figs because
such fruits are above the nature of those plants. So neither can our corrupt nature bring
forth grace, which is a fruit above it. Grace is more excellent than nature, therefore
cannot be the fruit of nature. It is Christ’s conclusion, “How can you, being evil, speak
good things?” Matt. 12:33, 34. Not so much as the buds and blossoms of words, much
less the fruit of actions.
o They can no more change their natures, than a viper can do away with his poison.
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7. SO IS IT A GOOD LAW OR A BAD LAW
It’s a Volcano not a Mountain!
Charles e Whisnant, August 28, 2011
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Here is what we need to remember if we are going to have a victorious life:
 This was an illustration I read: The Sleeping giant Mount Pinatubo of the Philippines
(600 years). “When a volcano is silent for many years, our people forget it’s a
volcano and begin to treat it like a mountain.”
 Here is the biggest mistake we can make, to ignore the volcano and move back onto
what seems like a dormant “mountain.”
 Never forget, your old nature is a Volcano…..not simply a mountain! (Wayne Barber)
A. C. Gaebelein says that this seventh chapter of Romans is a picture of every Christian as he
struggles against the principle of sin in his soul and in his life.
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The Jews would ask: Are you saying the holy law of God is not only insufficient to sanctify us, but
that it is the mere occasion of increased sin? They would argue what they thought Paul was saying
that the Law would in fact produce sinful passion, and that would make men worse than they
were before.
The Law is like an x-ray machine and makes known clearly what might have always been there, but
hidden before: and you can’t blame a x-ray for what it exposes.
Paul’s aim in Romans 7:7-25 is to support the teaching, up to this point in the book, that the Law of
Moses or the law written on the heart of men – is powerless to declare us righteous before God and
powerless to make us righteous before God. The fact is we are sinners by nature. What the Law does is
to make us guilty and stirs up rebellion within. It doesn’t justify and it doesn’t sanctify.
THE LAW ILLUMINATES SIN. The Law reveals. James 1:23-24
1. “Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a
mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
An old Chinese proverbs says: “To an ugly man, every mirror is an enemy.” The mirror is not
the problem; it is my ugly mug.
"IS THE LAW SIN? GOD FORBID. AFAugustine placed the truth in a clear light when he
wrote,
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8. "The law is not at fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet
until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but
from the nature of the lime which will not endure it."
FOR HAD I NOT KNOW SIN TO KNOW (1492) (eido, oida - eido is used only in the perfect tense = oida)
 Literally means perception by sight (perceive, see)
 The meaning of KNOW is somewhat difficult to convey but in general this type of "knowing" is
distinguished from ginosko (and epiginosko, epignosis), the other major NT word for knowing,
because ginosko refers to knowledge obtained by experience or "experiential knowledge"
whereas eido often refers to more intuitive knowledge, although the distinction is not always
crystal clear.
KNOW YOUR SIN. THERE IN IS ETERNAL LIFE
 If there is one thing you and I need to know it is our SIN. The trouble with most people is that they
don’t know that they have sinned. There is such great pain to the family, the church, to the soul of
that individual when they don’t seem to get it about their sinfulness.
 This knowing your sin does not mean to experiment with SIN. “How do you know if it is wrong
if you don’t do a little sin.” That is the most wrong advice that you could ever give someone or
think.
 You know -- a little pornography, a little fornication, a little lying, and cussing. You know, to see
how it feels. Get to know it.
BUT BY OR THROUGH THE LAW - The instrument by which the real truth about sin becomes
known is the Law.
FOR I HAD NOT KNOWN LUST (coveting) EXCEPT THE LAW HAD SAID, THOU
SHALT NOT COVET.
 Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21; Joshua 7:21
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or
maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
WHY DID PAUL USE THIS 10TH COMMANDMENT TO ILLUSTRATE HIS POINT?>
 The 10th Commandment stands for all the rest. By quoting a portion of the final
commandment, Paul is saying that this one summarizes all the others.
 Coveting is a root sin which is often the cause of other sins. If we could peel back our
motives when we sin, a spirit of coveting is often behind what we do. One could argue that
coveting is the root sin of Eve in Genesis 3:6 when she viewed the forbidden fruit as
“…pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom…” In Colossians 3:5, Paul
equates coveting (or greed) with idolatry. In Joshua 7:21, Achan explains why he sinned by
taking forbidden plunder: “I coveted them and took them.”
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