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W O W - T H E B I G P I C T U R E
by Thomas Nelson Publishers
Jesus Sets Us Free
-- Romans 6:15-7:25; Psalm 127:3-5; Proverbs 23:24-25
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace?
Certainly not! Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves
slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin
leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? But God be
thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the
heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having
been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. I speak in
human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you
presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness
leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of
righteousness for holiness.
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to
righteousness. What fruit did you have then in the things of which you
are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now having
been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your
fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. For the wages of sin
is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law),
that 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 he
lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her
husband. So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man,
she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free
from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married
another man. Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the
law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another-to
Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. 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. 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.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary,
I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have
known covetousness unless the law had said, "You shall not covet." But
sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner
of evil desire. 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.
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it
killed me. Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just
and good.
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. For
we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For
what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do
not practice; but what I hate, that I do. If, then, I do what I will
not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But now, it is no
longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me
(that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with
me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I
will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I
practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do
it, but sin that dwells in me.
I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to
do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my
mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my
members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body
of death? I thank God-through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the
flesh the law of sin.
Romans 6:15-7:25
WORSHIP:
Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
The fruit of the womb is a reward.
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
So are the children of one's youth.
Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them;
They shall not be ashamed,
But shall speak with their enemies in the gate.
Psalm 127:3-5
WISDOM:
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
And he who begets a wise child will delight in him.
Let your father and your mother be glad,
And let her who bore you rejoice.
Proverbs 23:24-25
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