The Law & Grace

Sunday, July 15, 2012

 Led by Eric Gintert

Romans 6:1-23

• vs. 1  -  A changed heart has no intentional desire for sin. They have a new relationship with sin... brokenness.
• Some get lost so far in grace, grace, grace that they forget about their sin and repentance.
• If you have no conviction when you see or do sin, you've become immune to sin and need to examine yourself.
• vs. 2  -  This doesn't mean we no longer sin.
• Peter sinned but wept bitterly.
• It's not about who I sinned against in the flesh but sinning against God.
• vs. 3-4  -  You'll have a newness of life; if this newness is from you, it'll wear off
• vs. 5-11  -  Being dead from sin yet alive in Christ

• 1 John 1:8-10  -  We make him a lair if we say we have no sin; He is faithful to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
• vs. 12  -  We are serving self by obeying the lusts of the flesh
• vs. 14-15  -  So it's okay to sin then, right? GOD FORBID!!!!! 

Be thankful that God is not Hitler, Fidel Castro, or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - He's not a dictator to His people!

Romans 7:1-25 

• vs. 1-4  -  We were once married to sin (self) but now were married to Christ. We were one with Christ but left Him to love sin, becoming an adulterer.

If you're living for sin, you'll see the fruit of sin. If you're living for Christ, you'll see the fruit of Christ.

• vs. 15-17  -  For the new man, he faces the battle of sinning and doing the things he ought not.
• vs. 24  -  Oh wretched man that I AM; not WAS.
• vs. 25  -  The mind wants to serve the law of God but the flesh wants to serve the law of sin.

 1 John 2:1-2  -  These written that sin not. But Jesus is our advocate and propitiation.

Prayer Requests
Joel F. mom  -  in hospital
Gintert family  -  strength for the family... business or job?
Tree Company  -  finish job
Sara N.  -  pregnancy
Ethan G.  -  question about God and Jesus being one.
Michelle B.