romans chapter 7 bible study
It is not an insulated passage; it contains the clear development of a great general principle which belongs to the whole of Divine revelation, and is essential to its truth, a principle of the utmost importance in Christian experience. These debates generally center about if Paul was writing about his life under the law or after becoming a Christian. This he calls a body, as before he had called it his members. Could a good law be the cause of death? Home >> Bible Studies >> Romans Studies >> Romans 7:1-12 These small group studies of Romans contain outlines, cross-references, Bible study discussion questions, and applications. Dr. Macknight renders it, Indeed, to incline lies nears me; but to work out what is excellent, I do not findNEAR ME, giving no distinct sense, from an affectation of rendering literally, Calvin says He (Paul) does not mean that he has nothing but an ineffectual volition and desire, but he asserts the efficacy of the work does not correspond to the will, because the flesh hinders him from exactly performing what he is engaged in executing.. Had we been presented with a spectacle of the internal feelings of one less eminently holy, the effect would have been greatly weakened. It is a conflict from which not one of the people of God, since the fall of the first man, was ever exempted, a conflict which He alone never experienced who is called the Son of the Highest, of whom, notwithstanding, it has of late been impiously affirmed that He also was subjected to it. Romans 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. There is not a man on earth that delights in the law of God who does not know that his soul cleaveth unto the dust. (Rom 3:1-2) The advantage of the Jewish people. <19B932> Psalm 119:32. The same answer as Romans 7:17. It does not imply that he was not regenerated, but shows what he was even in his renewed state, so far as concerned anything that was natural to him. And most assuredly they who cannot persuade themselves that the confessions and lamentations in the passage before us, strong as they undoubtedly are, could possibly be applicable to the Apostle Paul, do think of him above what is declared in every part of the word of God to be the character of every renewed man while he remains in this world. But is the Law then death??? To delight in the law of the Lord is characteristic of the regenerate man. In the preceding verse the Apostle had spoken of the law of God in the inward man; here he speaks of another law in his members, warring against the law of his mind Thus he denominates his new and spiritual nature his inward man and his mind, and his old and carnal nature his members. The bent of the Apostles mind, according to his renewed nature, inclined him to delight in the law of God. This respects what the Apostle was in himself. He may be sensible of misery, and he may be filled with anxious fears and dreadful foreboding; but the person here described is wretched only from a sense of the evil principle which is in his members. B. Analogy Of Marriage - Romans 7:2, 3 According to law, a woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive. The sin that remains in him binds him so that he cannot proceed. Compare what Paul says in Galatians 5:16-18. Without the law sin was dead. All those whom the Apostle was addressing had been under this law in their unconverted state. This could be the time in youth when happy innocence is displaced by the moral conflicts and awareness of mature years. I delight, says the Psalmist, to do Thy will, O my God; yea, Thy law is in my heart. I will delight myself in Thy commandments, which I love, Psalm 40:8, <19B916> 119:16, 24, 35, 47, 92, 97, 174. The experiences which he now gives as examples are those of Saul of Tarsus, yet they also are those of Paul the apostle as well. 6:10, and to the law having fulfilled it by His obedience and death, so that it hath no further demand upon Him. Him he overcame, and to such an extent as to prevail on him to deny his Lord and Master, notwithstanding all the firmness and sincerity of his previous resolutions. And to prevent such an inference from his words, he explains by a parenthesis the sense in which he asserts that no good thing dwelt in him. 7 Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is sinful? But this would be a sentiment totally at variance with the principles of the Apostle, and unsuitable to the scope of the passage. It is a thing of which no Christian is ignorant. Paul, in this chapter, contrasts his former with his present state. He had not found the law to be a killing letter, working wrath; so far from it, he could make his boast of the law, and assume it as the ground of his rejoicing before God. But now we are delivered from the law. The Law makes sin a curse (1 Corinthians 15:56). Without law, sin would have no strength to kill men, since sin is the violation of law. Some apply the term law in this place to the Roman law, with which those addressed must have been acquainted; but it is well known that it was usual both for husbands and wives among the Romans to be married to other husbands and wives during the life of their former consorts, without being considered guilty of adultery. Workbook on Romans Page #4 Bible Study Questions on the Book of Romans Introduction: This workbook was designed for Bible class study, family study, or personal study. Whatever is prohibited is only the more eagerly desired. Let it be remarked, also, that, as signifying the greatest wickedness, the expression is not more suitable to their own view, than it is to that of those whom they oppose. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, 12 she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead. Ver. 6. After the struggle of the legalist, he says, with the wretchedness arising from his sense of inward schism has in this description been wrought up to the highest pitch, Paul comes forward to a sudden in his own person, and breaks forth in thankfulness to God for having delivered him by the redemption from that miserable condition. A more unfounded interpretation cannot be imagined. Paul applies the epithet carnal to the Corinthians, although they were sanctified in Christ Jesus, and even in the same sentence in which he denominates them carnal he calls them babes in Christ. Every man, regenerate or unregenerate, must be sensible of the truth of this, so far as it imports that he does what he knows to be wrong. Whence, then, is there any difficulty in admitting that in the account of the internal struggle in the passage before us, Paul described his own warfare with indwelling sin, or that it portrays a state of mind incompatible with that of an Apostle? Thus, too, when the great multitude of those who have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb shall stand before the throne, the full import of the words of Paul, with which in the fifth chapter of this Epistle he closes the account of the entrance of sin and death, and of righteousness and life, will be made gloriously manifest. Death is not viewed as the parent of the works. I know. As Paul declares to the churches of Galatia, and, as in the passage before us, he affirms of himself, they cannot do the things that they would, Galatians 5:17. This is the effect of being delivered from the law. 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. In Romans 7:7-13, Paul establishes the goodness of God’s Law and the wickedness of sin. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honey-comb. If God had left men free from the law, it would still be for the happiness of society that they should strictly obey its precepts. They who know the excellence of that law, and earnestly desire to obey it, will feel the force of the Apostles language. There is no such thing as the believer becoming "more and more just," [since his being just at all depends upon God's act in Christ], neither does the believer's nature become less and less sinful (Galatians 5:16-18; 1 John 1:8-10). Who ever has a proper knowledge of himself will be convinced that naturally there is nothing good in him. Sold under sin. "This is how I find the Lawor life under the rule of the Lawworks out in actual practice: when I make up my mind to do good, evil is the only choice I have." (11-14) Commentary on Romans 13:1-7 (Read Romans 13:1-7) The grace of the gospel teaches us submission and quiet, where pride and the carnal mind only see causes for murmuring and discontent. [The Christian also feels this constant struggle, but has hope in Christ.] What is simply a law implies no more than a direction and obligation authoritatively enforcing obedience. The same word rendered lust in the foregoing verse is here rendered concupiscence, which is not so proper a translation, having a more limited meaning generally attached to it. There is then no ground whatever for denying that he here related his own personal experience, according to the plain literal, and obvious import of the expressions he employs. The law, however, which was ordained to life, will at last be proved to have attained this object in all in whom it has been fulfilled, Romans 8:4, by Him who is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. In becoming a Christian, they died with Christ (Romans 6:6), and since the old relationship is terminated, the Law has no claim on them. Dead to the law by the body of Christ, means dead to it by dying in Christs death. 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