Grace Community Church December 30, 2007 Is The Law Sin? Romans 7:7-12 Grace Community Church December 30, 2007

Do you want to live like this? Romans 7:4 4 So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. Do you want to live like this?

Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Romans 7:7-12 What can the law do? Romans 7:12-24 What can’t the law do?

Romans 7:7 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.”

Romans 7:8 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead.

Romans 7:9-11 9 Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.

Romans 7:12 How is this good?!?! 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. How is this good?!?!

Matthew 5:3-6 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. 5 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. 6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.