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The law does well to points to the sin we have in us. The law does poorly in keeping us from sinning. The law is powerless to save us because it does not deal with the real problem which is the heart. The problem is in us.

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The flesh that Paul is talking about in Romans 7:5 is the sinful nature that is in us. In other words our worldly nature. Wanting to do the things that the world is doing.

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Good doctrine teaches us the way to live. If we know how God wants us to live then we try to live that way because we are trying to please him. If we don

Obedience has to do with slavery in that we obey the one that has control of us. The way that acts of righteousness demonstrates our slavery to God is we obey the one that has control over us. The evil one never has us do anything that is righteous. The way that doing bad things demonstrates a slavery to sin is that we obey the one that has control over us. Only sin would make us do bad things. Slavery or bondage us broken by letting go of the things that holds us to slavery. The part that obedience has in breaking this bondage is if we obey what God is telling us to do then we can no longer listen to the evil one. The areas that God speaking to me about a fresh obedience in my life is in the area of self control.

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Paul is referring to the historical actual death of Jesus. His death becomes our own when we are baptized. It has have some basis in reality because we really don

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The sense that baptism brings about our union with Christ is that we have been resurrected with him. The sense that baptism symbolizes our union with Christ is that it symbolizes our dying with him and being buried with him and then being resurrected with him.

According to this passage, the point we move from being under the headship of Adam to the headship of Christ is when we were baptized. Christ made this possible for us when he died on the cross for us. The thing that we must do to bring this change in headship about is accept the fact that Jesus died for us and that he was resurrected. The implications of us having died with Christ is that at the last day we will be resurrected and live with him for eternity.

The right that Adam represent all humankind is that he was the first human and we have all followed him. The right that Christ become the head of all who become his disciples is that he died for our sins and was resurrected. God sent him down here for us. Christ is our

I think that Paul is saying in these verses that there has always been sin. We just couldn

The kind of circumstances in modern life that I can think of where a single person acts for the entire group is the president of the United States. Like it or not he is always invoking us by saying that the United States thinks this and that. The ways that members of the group is tied to this person is that if that country declares war on us because of what he said, we all have to give up something for that war.

Reconciliation means that we have been made right with somebody. The reason reconciliation with God is necessary is because if we weren

The reason that it is important to embrace the truth that

The reason we should rejoice in our sufferings and tribulations is because it will build character. It will bring us closer to God and we will rely on God more. The importance to our lives of perseverance is that we will continue to do something that doesn

For Abraham the relationship between faith and justification was that when God spoke to him he did what God told him to do without questioning him. For us the relationship between faith and justification is the same. We need to be doing what God wants us to do. If we don

It is not wise in all cases to put up money to cover someone else

I think that the reason the Paul doesn

Paul is sending Onesimus back to Philemon even though he will lose his freedom again because if he didn