Godswriter

Q1. (Romans 7:5) Paul uses the word "flesh" (or NIV "sinful nature") many times in chapters 7 and 8. In your own words, what does Paul mean by "flesh" in these verses? I believe he means our heart and inner workings like mind for like Jeremiah says the heart is deceitfully wicked who can know it? I also know that because of the flesh we continually are fighting against it in order to obey the Lord in certain areas of our lives.

Q5. (Romans 6:18-22) In Paul's analogy in these verses, is there a place of independent freedom apart from "slavery" to sin or to Christ? Why do we long for this kind of independent freedom? Why do we hesitate to firmly take sides and make our allegiance clear to all? No there is not apart from being able to choose to sin and that is not a choice at all really. We long for it because of our sinful nature longs to be away from the Creator while our Spirit longs for the opposite. We have warring factions inside of us that want exact opposite for us basically. I believe it's because we are sometimes unsure God has our best interests at heart and won't let us down like people do.

Q4. (Romans 6:17b) How does good doctrine affect the way we live? Why should we honor good doctrine? If we shouldn't look down on doctrine itself, what kind of teaching should we be avoiding? It causes us to walk in a way that the world sees that we are changed from the inside out and are no longer the same anymore. We should honor it because as 2 Tim 3:16-17 it helps us in so many ways to be a better follower of Christ. I believe as the apostles stated in the word it would be anything that contradicts the Gospel and God's word in general.

Q3. (Romans 6:15-18). What does obedience have to do with slavery? In what way does doing acts of righteousness demonstrate your slavery to God? In what ways does doing bad things demonstrate a slavery to sin? How is such a slavery or bondage broken? What part does obedience have in breaking this bondage? In what areas is God speaking to you about a fresh obedience in your life? As Jesus said in the Gospel of John Slave obey their master and He also said that we cannot have 2 masters because we will love one and hate the other or love one and despise the other as we serve that master. It shows that you no longer desire to obey sin and its temptations or your body and its lusts because you prefer to obey the Lord and His voice. When you sin you are saying you don't care what people think of you so you do whatever you want no matter what. It is broken when you choose to come to Christ and ask for forgiveness of your sins and openly repent of your sins and turn away from them. Obedience is a direct act of choosing not to do what you did before you knew Christ. My recovery, my fitness, my nutrition and also my eating plan.

Q2. (Romans 6:13) In what ways do you "offer the members of your body" to either sin or God multiple times in a day? Why is it that we can sin unconsciously? How can we begin to offer our members deliberately to God? What changes will it take in our daily life to do this? Reading the Bible, choosing to pray, memorize Scripture, give praise, choosing to love our fellow man without hypocrisy and learning not to holding grudges by openly forgiving others, put on the full armor of God. By choosing to compromise our values and morals in any way for the sake of getting something or somewhere in the world. By applying the Scriptural principles deliberately to our lives daily. By asking the Lord to remind us of His sacrifice that He made for us.

Q1. (Romans 6:12) What does obedience have to do with the "reign" of sin? As Jesus said in the Gospel of John to the Pharisees and Sadducees and scribes about their parentage anyone who did not believe Jesus and sought to kill him did the work of the enemy and was not the son of God but a son of the enemy instead and obeyed him instead. However they did not realize how far away they truly were from God until it was too late. When you choose to obey sin in any way it has become your master.

Q5. (Romans 6:11) What does it mean to "reckon, consider, count" in verse 11? Does this actually mean that we are convincing ourselves of something that isn't really true? What will be the effect in our lives if we actually do consider it to be true that we died with Christ's death with regard to sin? It means to actually think about the fact that we are dead to sin. No it means we need to consider the implications of being dead to sin and what it means for us and our lives in Christ. When we actually consider it people will see the changes in our lives and how the Lord has changed us through His love.

Q4. (Romans 6:6-7) In what way has our "body of sin," our "flesh," our old nature been made powerless because of our crucifixion with Christ? In what way have we been freed from slavery? What difference does this understanding make in our struggles against temptation? Our old nature has been made powerless through the crucifixion with Christ when we fully die to sin and also choose to let Christ live in us through the Holy Spirit and listen to His voice continually. We have been freed from it through the crucifixion, death and resurrection of our Lord since He broke the hold it had on us. It causes us to realize that we can cry out to the Lord for help when tempted to sin.

Q3. (Romans 6:1-7) Is Paul referring to a figurative "death" to sin, or to a kind of historical, actual death? Whose death is he talking about? How does this death become our own? To what degree is this just theological mumbo-jumbo or does it have some basis in reality? Paul is referring to a historical actual death that would change the world forever this death was none other than the death of Son of God, Jesus Christ. It becomes our own when we choose to recognize that we need a Savior and He is the only one who can save us. When we choose to come to faith in Christ is when it becomes our own. It has a lot of basis in reality. There is an empty tomb to this day that our Lord laid in and was raised from the dead from. The religious rulers to this day refuse to believe that Jesus is alive and was raised from the dead and so they bribed the soldiers to spread a rumor about the disciples taking the body somewhere else.

Q2. (Romans 6:3-4) In Paul's reference to baptism in 6:3-4, what does "buried" (6:4a) correspond to in the act of baptism? What does "Christ was raised from the dead" (6:4b) correspond to in baptism? When we are baptized in the water and buried with the Lord we are burying our past sins in the water and basically dying to them and the **** of the flesh and pride of the eyes and love of the world. It means that He was made alive again so that we could have a relationship with the Lord and be in constant contact with Him through it.

Q1. (Romans 6:3-5) In what sense does baptism bring about our union with Christ? In what sense does baptism symbolize our union with Christ? Baptism unites us with Christ in the sense that we become one with Him in the symbolic sense of being buried with Him and also being made alive with Him. Our sins being buried in the water and we coming up from it anew.

Q4. (Romans 6:2-5) According to this passage, at what point do we move from being under the headship of Adam to the headship of Christ? Is there anything we must do to bring about this change in headship? What are the implications of us having died with Christ? When we choose to die to sin and become alive to righteousness in God is when we go from the headship of Adam to the headship of Christ. Yes we must choose to be baptized the same way Jesus was because it is symbolic of His death. Our baptism.

Q3. (Romans 5:15-19) By what right does Adam represent all humankind? By what right does Christ become head of all who become his disciples? If Christ is not our "representative" or "head," how can his death for sins be effective for us? Adam is the start of the human race and also the one who committed the original sin that caused everyone in our race to have our nature to become sinners as well. Christ becomes the head through the fact He teaches all of them the word and also obedience to the Lord and how to listen to the Holy Spirit. If He is not our representative then His death will not help us at all.

Q2. (Romans 5:13, 20) What is Paul saying in these verses? Can there be sin without law? In what sense does the "trespass increase" (5:20) when the law is present? Yes there can be sin even before there was no law meaning the Commandments because when Adam and Eve sinned they actually knew when they were naked and chose to cover their nakedness and also the fact that they hid from God imputes that they knew that they had done something wrong. However both of them chose to blame anyone but themselves for the wrong done. Christ is the one who frees us from sin and Adam is the one who actually put us in chains to sin. It increases becauses people see sin for what it is but refuse to admit that they need the Lord as their Savior.

Q2. (Hebrews 4:15) In what ways did Jesus share our weaknesses? In what ways was Jesus' tempted? Because we know he didn't sin, were his temptations easier or more difficult than ours? Do we have any temptations he didn't have? Why does it comfort us that he can sympathize with our temptations and weaknesses? He shared in them through being like us as a human being. He grieved as we did, he cried, he hungered, he grew tired, he got angry as well, he got thirsty as well, He was tempted both in the wilderness and in the Garden of Gethsemane. I believe they would have been harder since they were different for him than us in a way. Since one dealt with ruling the world. I know however that He is able to defeat the devil as well. No our temptations are the same. Because we have a High Priest who can sympathize with us when we are tempted to sin.

Q1. (Hebrews 4:14) What is so important about "holding fast to our confession." What is our confession or profession of faith? Why is maintaining this confession so vital?\ The importance of holding fast to our confession is the fact that Jesus is both Lord and Savior of our lives and that He is God and the Son of God who died on a cross at Calvary for the world's sins over 2,000 yrs ago and was born to Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem. It is vital because it keeps us strong in our faith and also our faith is not is a religion but a relationship with God.

Q3. (Hebrews 4:8-11) What do you think the writer of Hebrews means by this promise of "rest" for the believer? Why does the writer urge us: "Make every effort to enter that rest"? What is the difference between apostasy from Christ and the kind of falling into sin that all Christians experience from time to time? The promise of rest that is being written about is eternal rest in heaven after our work on earth is over. Apostasy from Christ is when someone actively chooses to reject Christ and turn from the faith and become an unbeliever. Falling into sin is when we as believers don't listen to the Holy Spirit and choose to obey Him in all matters and sin instead.

Q4. (Romans 8:35-36) What kinds of perils were the early Roman Christians likely exposed to? What kinds of perils are Christians exposed to today? How does this passage reassure us? In what sense do we Christians "overwhelmingly conquer" (NASB) despite the obstacles we face? The early Christians were killed by lions, burned at the stake or even sawn in two like Isaiah. Christians now are imprisoned, tortured or killed. It reassures us because we know that whatever we go through He will be with us. That nothing can separate us from His love. We overwhelmingly conquer because we know that the world will see that we are not defeated by our troubles or difficulties. That instead we rely on God to help us. It is through Him that we are able to be overcomers. It is our love and faith that overcome anything.

Q3. (Romans 8:31-32) What is the significance of the statement: "If God is for us, who can be against us?" Who might our enemies be? What is the evidence presented that God is for us? How does this statement make you feel? How does it affect hope? How does it allow you to act? What might: "...graciously give us all things" refer to? It means that no one can come against us because God is on our side and He will defend us. No one can come against Him Our enemy is the Satan or the devil. People can also become our enemies if they see how we are different and it rubs them the wrong way and they want to cause us trouble. The fact that He gave us His only Son for us and allowed Him to take our place. It makes me feel good knowing how much He loves me. It makes me feel secure. It assures me that it can not be taken away no matter what and that He will always love me. It allows me to freely live for Him knowing I am secure and that that He will not let me go even if I flub up or sin. It means the things awaiting us in our heavenly home.

Q2. (Romans 8:29) What does it mean to "be conformed to the likeness of his Son"? In practical terms, what does that involve in our lives? Why does Paul support this statement with ideas of our destiny? Why does he support this with ideas of brotherhood with Jesus? To be conformed means to be shaped into the image of Jesus, God's Son. We become more and more like Him. It involves changing us through struggles and conflicts and problems so that we are gradually changed and become more pure and refined as we learn to lean on Him. We are adopted by God and our destination is heaven. We are now new creations in Him and if we rely on Him we can be conformed more readily. For we live by the Spirit not the flesh. Because we are all sisters and brothers in Christ.

Q2. (Hebrews 3:12-14) What is the importance of faith in our relationship to Christ? How does sin trick us? How does it harden us? What is the value of Christian fellowship to keep our faith strong? According to the Charles Stanley Life Principles Study Bible 2nd Ed. it says that no Christian has been called to go it alone in his or her walk of faith. None of us can progress in our relationships with the Lord or stay true to Him without the help and encouragement of fellow believers. We need others to support us and keep us accountable so that sin will not find a foothold in our hearts. In fact, we need this kind of healthy interaction every day because we require constant reminders of God's unfailing love. Sin tricks us by causing us to believe that no one cares about us including God. It tricks us into believing that God is lying to us and holding out on us. It causes us to isolates ourselves from others as well. It hardens us to the voice of the Holy Spirit when He convicts of sin. It helps us grow and keeps us accoutable.

Q1. What kinds of circumstances in modern life can you think of where a single person acts for an entire group? In what ways are members of the group tied to this person? When a president chooses to sign multiple executive orders without authorization from the people thinking that the people of that country are the ones that want this when it is actually just a minority who does. A classic example of this is the former Pr. Obama who did this and then Pr. Trump had to override everything with them as well. Now Obama's vp wants to do the same thing as Obama as well. They are tied to him since he and they are all members of the same country and he is their country's leader.

Q4. (Romans 5:9-11) What does "reconciliation" mean? Why is reconciliation with God necessary? We understand our having been saved by Jesus' death (5:10a, past tense). In what sense are we being saved (5:10b, present tense) by his life? What is Jesus doing for us in the present? It means that through Christ's death we are declared righteous and no longer enemies of God but are friends of God now through Christ's death. We are justified by the blood of the Christ since only His blood could buy us back from the kingdom of darkness. It is necessary because through Adam's sin we all sinned sand none of us could save ourselves from our sins. By being justified through His blood and we have Christ as our Advocate next to the Father in Heaven pleading our case before Him.

Q3. (Romans 5:6, ? Why is it so important to embrace the truth that "Christ died for the ungodly" (5:6), that "Christ died for sinners" (5:8)? According to 5:8, did Christ die for us at our best or at our worst? How does this give us assurance against the devil's lies about us being too bad to forgive? It is important to believe the truth that He died for the ungodly because He chose to die on a cross at Calvary for the sins of the world for people who would come to Him readily and seek Him for salvation and ask for forgiveness for their sins. He died for us at our worst when we were sinners. While we were yet sinners; He chose to give His life a ransom for many. It shows us that we needed a Savior to save us from our sins.

Q2. (Romans 5:2-5) According to this passage why should we rejoice in our sufferings and tribulations? One by one, what is the importance to our lives of: perseverance, tried character, and hope? It is because heaven is our home and we are only just passing through this world and this world is not our home. It is through our faith in God that we have the ability to rejoice in our sufferings and tribulations and still go through them without complaining like the world. For as we suffer for Christ's sake we learn patience endurance and how to be more like Christ through it. Through patient endurance we learn to have true character of Christ and be more like Christ through our trials and sufferings. Hope and confident assurance of our salvation in God's promises of salvation should cause us to remember that we will always comforted by the Lord through our sufferings.