And here we are, Romans Chapter 7, and we're going to talk about the worst enemy you will

ever face in your life and sadly all your life. That's you.

I am my own worst enemy. This is absolutely true. Certainly I've experienced this in my own life and as we read Roman 7 we read about really the angst, human angst, and part of the problem

of the human condition, that there is something wrong inside of me, it's not just the world.

When you're a little kid, you think there's things wrong with of me. It's not just the world. When you're a little kid you think there's things

wrong with the world. It's not fair, it's not fair, it's not fair. As you get older you realize

there's something wrong with me. And with all the world and its problems, what plagues me the most is me.

So as we read it, we will find the Roman 7 is describing us.

Each of us, hopefully as we read it, we identify, man, this is me.

This is me. I feel this way. God's putting my thoughts into words in this passage.

Now there's a bunch of different threads coming together in our sort of verse study through the whole

book of Romans. So Romans 7 doesn't stand totally alone. And then when we get to

Romans 8, there's even more threads that come together. It's like a climax

passage, Romans 8, where all the stuff we've done so far in Romans sort of builds up to this

dramatic high note of Romans chapter 8.

But for now, we all should know a few things.

So I'm going to give you vocabulary words.

Here's your vocab words for Romans chapter one through seven so far.

Just three of them.

The first word is the word law. The word law in the book of Romans is used in several

different ways. It's not one definition for the word. Sometimes Paul uses it talking about

the law of Moses. So these are the laws the Jews received from God through

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