Good morning my friends welcome back to the morning mindset. It's time for you and for me to get our minds aligned with the truth of God.

I'm going to ask you for a moment, what country are you a resident of?

What set of laws are you under from your country's standpoint. The reason I ask this is because it relates

directly to the passage we're going to look at today and I'm curious as I look at

the map that my statistics dashboard provides me about where people are in the world

as they're listening to the morning I said.

I wonder where are you?

Are you in Mexico?

Are you in Guatemala? are you in Honduras, are you in Nicaragua, those are all places

that people who listen to the morning mindset are.

And whether those are your country of origin or your home or not, think about the issue of the laws that you are under.

You have certain rules and regulations that you are obligated to adhere to as a citizen or

resident of that country. Am I correct? You see, Paul is bringing up the issue of law for us again today in Romans chapter 6 verse 14

To help us remember something he's already taught us back in chapter 5

He taught us back in chapter five. He taught us back in chapter five

that we are now dead to the power of the law.

You see, the law's power over people is one of condemnation. It's a law that points out

where you're sinning, what you're doing to transgress God's holy standards, but it gives you no power with which to reform

yourself or to do better.

It just says here's the line, You're not living up to this line. You're in trouble.

That's really what the law does. That's why the law, meaning the Old Testament law, is a law of condemnation.

It's just condemning us as sinners, which it rightly can do because none of us measure up

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