Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

My name is Kristen and my name is Katie.

And we want to spend a few minutes a day with you walking through the New Testament, one chapter at a time.

This year we will fix our gaze upon Christ so that we may know Him, not only with our minds, but with our hearts.

Together we will learn that who Jesus is changes everything.

Welcome back to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. My name is Kristen Schmacher, and we are

journeying through the New Testament. Today, we are in Romans 7. Yesterday, Paul used the metaphor of

slavery to describe two potential masters over mankind,

sin or righteousness.

While slavery to sin results in death, slavery to righteousness results in life.

Paul teaches us that slavery to Christ is actually choosing freedom, freedom from sins hold

on you, and freedom to know the one true

God in Jesus, which is eternal life, as Jesus describes in John 17.3. Today, Paul will explore how

the law is insufficient in making us right with God. The law is powerless to save God's people. It provides a standard of

righteousness that we can never live up to. God does not grade on a curve, and his grading scale is

nothing less than perfect. Think about it this way. If you give a toddler a piece of paper and a crayon,

their scribbles on paper are cute until you give

them a coloring book. All of a sudden, you see there is a long way to go before they can color

inside the lines. The lines accentuate the toddler's inability to color inside of them.

The same is true for how the law accentuates our inability to obey God. The law was

unable to produce righteousness in us, but it was never meant to. This is why we need Jesus,

the only perfect righteous one to stand in our place. And to illustrate, Paul will use the metaphor

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