What are the two extreme ways Christians follow Jesus Christ?
Did Paul answered this first group who claims "we are free to live as we please"?
Did Paul answered this second group who claims "We are saved by grace, to be sure; but we must live under Law if we are to please God"?
What happens to the new believer who has zeal to follow the Lord applies seriously what he/she has read in Romans 6?
What really is "legalism"?
What is the weakness of legalism?
1 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? 2 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. 3 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. 4 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. 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.
Is this chapter is a continuation of previous chapter?
To whom Paul is addressing?
What law Paul is talking about?
Does this law in this verse Romans 7:1 includes both ritual and moral laws?
How long the law dominion/rule over people who are under the law?
What illustration Paul using to explain the Christians relationship with the law?
How long husband and wife bound to their marriage law or vow?
Is there any other way we can break the marriage bond, law or vow?
When will a wife called as adulteress?
When will a wife not called as adulteress even though she does the similar act of adultery or she marries another man?
How this husband and wife illustration will apply to those who become Christians?
Did he not explain that relationship between sin and law in Romans 5:20a, 21a?
Is this teaching that Christians are not under the law or dead to the law taught in other portions of the Bible?
What fruit does the law produced in us before we become Christians?
What is "dead to the law" means?
Is the law is dead?
Can we say law is no more valid for Christians?
Why Christians were dead to the law or delivered from the law?
(Now you say...) Is it ok for Christians to live a lawless lifestyle because they were dead to the law?
How we should bear fruit of God and serve in the newness of the Spirit?
How to Walk in the Spirit?
How God speaks to Christians/believers in Christ?
What do you need to listen to the voice of God?
How do you receive the Holy Spirit?
How long God's Holy Spirit (or God) lives within us?
What are all the ways and means God speaks through Holy Spirit to Christians/believers in Christ?
How well do you serve in the newness of the Spirit?
What is the difference between "serve in the newness of the Spirit" and "serve in the oldness of the letter"?
What is different about Christian service as opposed to our old life of sin?
Which verse do you select and follow if some one or a believer in Christ hurt you or sin against you?
Do you always dust off of your feet and move to next city, or other group of people or endure like Stephen until to his death if someone whom you preached opposed, denied or blasphemed against you?
As a matured Christian do you choose to do something special for God as per your desire?
Do you receive the task from God and accomplish based on your ability or accomplish as per your desire or accomplish based on the response/feedback?
Are you (unmarried) trying to please God by marrying a widow/widower, poor, not good looking, lame, blind, low cast, ... ?
Are you ready to obey as per the dynamic leading of the Holy Spirit as God lea Peter in Acts 10?
7 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." 8 But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. 9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. 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.
Is the law sin?
What are the purpose of the law?
What is happening in us when the law entered in?
Are these laws or commandments really causing the believers to sin?
Then, what really causing the believers to sin?
Then, shall we say law is good?
Application:
What happens when a believer keeps the law to please God?
What is doers of the word means?
How the faith produces work?
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 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. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 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. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 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. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 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.
What is the character of the Law?
What does it mean that the Law is "spiritual"?
What is carnal means?
Do the law gives us power to perform what we desire/will to do good?
Is it law's problem that we are not keeping the law?
Do believers has capacity to desire/will to do good?
Are we practicing the good things that we desire/will to do?
What are we practicing?
Why are we not practicing or doing the good things that we desire/will to do?
Do we have power to perform the good things that we desire/will to do?
Does sin has power to keep us slave to sin?
Then, what are we doing actually?
What happens if we stay this way?
What happens when a believer tries to keep the law perfectly to please God with their own strength?
Is there any deliverance from this struggle?
What is wretched means?
Who will deliver us from this wretchedness or struggle?
Was Paul describing his experience while he was a non-believer or as a believer?
What is the main difference between Romans 6 and Romans 7?
Application:
Is it ok for the Christians to have split personality?
Are you delight in the law of God in your inward man?
Are you producing fruit unto God?