This article will be studied during the week of March 16th through 22nd.

Why we need the ransom.

Theme text.

Who will rescue me from the body undergoing this death?

Romans 7.24.

Song 20.

You gave your precious son. Focus. How the ransom provides forgiveness, healing, and reconciliation. Paragraphs 1 and 2 question. From what do we need to be

rescued and why? Imagine the scene. A building

collapses trapping a man in the rubble. He is alive, but he cannot remove himself from the wreckage.

All he can do is cry out for help and hope that he can be rescued.

Each one of us is in a comparable situation. In what way? When Adam rebelled against his creator,

he became a sinner. Later, he passed on his sinful condition to his children.

As a result, the entire human race became trapped in the rubble of inherited sin,

and we cannot remove ourselves from its effects.

The Apostle Paul well described our sinful condition in his letter to the Romans.

Romans 7. 22 through 24 reads,

I really delight in the law of God according to the man I am within,

but I see in my body another law warring against the law of my mind

and leading me captive to sin's law that is in my body.

Miserable man that I am!

Who will rescue me from the body undergoing this death?

He begged to be rescued from the body undergoing this death.

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