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Turn with me to Romans chapter 7. Romans 7, our primary focus will be verses 14 through 25,

but we're going to take a few minutes just to touch on the previous section in 7 through 12. I won't

take long there, but I do want you to see it. To me, it did not call for a lesson of its own,

but we need to get to the other portion. So we'll just touch there for a moment and get on to our

primary text in verse 13. Let me read verses 7 through 12. If you glance back and see in verse 6,

the words that we now serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written

code, I pray that brings back to mind some of what we studied together as we talked about the new

way of the Spirit and learning to be led by the promptings of the Spirit. It was certainly a

lesson that spoke to me. I pray that it spoke to you as well. I'm picking up in 7. What shall we say then

is the law sin? Certainly not. Indeed, I would not have known what sin was except through the law,

for I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said do not covet,

but sins seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment produced in me every kind of

covetous desire for apart from law sin is dead. Once I was alive apart from law, but when the

commandment came since spring to life and I died, I find that the very commandment that was intended

to bring life actually brought death for sin seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment

deceived me and through the commandment put me to death. So then the law is holy and the commandment

is holy righteous and good. Now after all Paul has said in previous chapters about us being

free from the law he stops long enough to think back and we've talked about the consummate

teacher that he is because he's constantly asking himself if he's brought up something some kind

of question that he is not yet answered and he's doing exactly that in this passage because he begins

to think to himself have I said enough about being free from the law that somehow somebody has

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