Welcome to Gospel in Life.

Are you longing to see real change in your life, in your habits, your relationships, your heart?

Today, Tim Keller explores how lasting change actually happens in the life of a Christian

and why the gospel offers a radically different process of transformation than anything else.

Tonight's scripture reading is on page 9 in your bulletin, and it comes from Romans chapter 7,

verses 1 through 9, and then 18 through 25 or do you not know brothers for

I am speaking to those who know the law that the law is binding on a person only as long as he

lives thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the

law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her

husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man,

she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ

so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead,

in order that we may bear fruit for God.

For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work

in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the law, having died to that

which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code, but in the new life

of the spirit. What then shall we say that the law is sin? By no means.

Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is

to covet if the law had not said, you shall not covet. But sin, seizing an opportunity through

the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness.

Apart from the law, sin lies dead.

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive, and I died.

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