Saemoonan English Bible Study 2016-11-13 http://niv.saemoonan.org

In the Garden 1 I come to the garden alone, While the dew is still on the roses, And the voice I hear, falling on my ear, The Son of God discloses. And He walks with me, and He talks with me, And He tells me I am His own, And the joy we share as we tarry there, None other has ever known.

In the Garden 1 I come to the garden alone, While the dew is still on the roses, And the voice I hear, falling on my ear, The Son of God discloses. And He walks with me, and He talks with me, And He tells me I am His own, And the joy we share as we tarry there, None other has ever known.

In the Garden 1 I come to the garden alone, While the dew is still on the roses, And the voice I hear, falling on my ear, The Son of God discloses. And He walks with me, and He talks with me, And He tells me I am His own, And the joy we share as we tarry there, None other has ever known.

In the Garden 2 He speaks, and the sound of His voice, Is so sweet the birds hush their singing, And the melody that He gave to me Within my heart is ringing. And He walks with me, and He talks with me, And He tells me I am His own, And the joy we share as we tarry there, None other has ever known.

In the Garden 3 I’d stay in the garden with Him, Though the night around me be falling, But He bids me go, through the voice of woe His voice to me is calling. And He walks with me, and He talks with me, And He tells me I am His own, And the joy we share as we tarry there, None other has ever known.

In the Garden 3 I’d stay in the garden with Him, Though the night around me be falling, But He bids me go, through the voice of woe His voice to me is calling. And He walks with me, and He talks with me, And He tells me I am His own, And the joy we share as we tarry there, None other has ever known.

In the Garden 3 I’d stay in the garden with Him, Though the night around me be falling, But He bids me go, through the voice of woe His voice to me is calling. And He walks with me, and He talks with me, And He tells me I am His own, And the joy we share as we tarry there, None other has ever known.

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Time table 8:30 Praise time: 1 ~ 2 songs 8:40      Greetings and Announcements 8:45      Psalm Reading and Prayer 8:50      Lesson            -     Bible reading            -     Verse memorization - Lecture - Discussion - Conversation - This week’s phrase 9:45      Today’s prayer 9:48      Lord’s prayer 9:49      Dismissal song

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Today’s Announcements SEM Revival: Nov 19th 11/13 Prayer: Jeong Seon Moon, Psalm 107:31-43 11/20 Prayer: Eun Sook Kim, Psalm 108:1-13 SEM Revival: Pastor Daniel Cho Saturday, November 19, 2016 @ 4 PM Saemoonan Building Vision Hall

NIV Class Prayer List (Oct.~Dec.) Date Prayer Psalms 10/2 이계희 106:1-12 11/20 김은숙 108 10/9 강기우 106:13-24 11/27 하헌승 109:1-15 10/16 박경호 106:25-36 12/4 권순호 109:16-31 10/23 김홍봉 106:37-48 12/11 박은주 110 10/30 최옥주 107:1-15 12/18 손기순 111 11/6 금영욱 107:16-30 12/25 이미희 112 11/13 문정선 107:31-43

Apostle’s Creed I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell, the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy universal church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen

Today’s Psalm Reading: Jeong Seon Moon 31 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love     and his wonderful deeds for mankind. 32 Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people     and praise him in the council of the elders. 33 He turned rivers into a desert,     flowing springs into thirsty ground, 34 and fruitful land into a salt waste,     because of the wickedness of those who lived there. 35 He turned the desert into pools of water     and the parched ground into flowing springs; 36 there he brought the hungry to live,     and they founded a city where they could settle. 37 They sowed fields and planted vineyards

Today’s Psalm Reading: Jeong Seon Moon     that yielded a fruitful harvest; 38 he blessed them, and their numbers greatly increased,     and he did not let their herds diminish. 39 Then their numbers decreased, and they were humbled     by oppression, calamity and sorrow; 40 he who pours contempt on nobles     made them wander in a trackless waste. 41 But he lifted the needy out of their affliction     and increased their families like flocks. 42 The upright see and rejoice,     but all the wicked shut their mouths. 43 Let the one who is wise heed these things     and ponder the loving deeds of the Lord.

Prayer by : Jeong Seon Moon Today’s Prayer Prayer by : Jeong Seon Moon

This Week’s Verse Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful. (Romans 7:13) (Nov. 13)

Next Week’s Verse We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. (Romans 7:14-15) (Nov. 20)

Today’s Reading Romans 7:14-25 For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. For that which I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. But if I do the very thing I do not wish to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that it is good. So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which indwells me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the wishing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. For the good that I wish, I do not do; but I practice the very evil that I do not wish.

Today’s Reading Romans 7:14-25 But if I am doing the very thing I do not wish, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wishes to do good. For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.

Today’s Reading 로마서 7:14-25 우리가 율법은 신령한 줄 알거니와 나는 육신에 속하여 죄 아 래에 팔렸도다 내가 행하는 것을 내가 알지 못하노니 곧 내가 원하는 것은 행 하지 아니하고 도리어 미워하는 것을 행함이라 만일 내가 원하지 아니하는 그것을 행하면 내가 이로써 율법이 선한 것을 시인하노니 이제는 그것을 행하는 자가 내가 아니요 내 속에 거하는 죄니 라 내 속 곧 내 육신에 선한 것이 거하지 아니하는 줄을 아노니 원 함은 내게 있으나 선을 행하는 것은 없노라 내가 원하는 바 선은 행하지 아니하고 도리어 원하지 아니하는 바 악을 행하는도다

Today’s Reading 로마서 7:14-25 만일 내가 원하지 아니하는 그것을 하면 이를 행하는 자는 내 가 아니요 내 속에 거하는 죄니라 그러므로 내가 한 법을 깨달았노니 곧 선을 행하기 원하는 나 에게 악이 함께 있는 것이로다 내 속사람으로는 하나님의 법을 즐거워하되 내 지체 속에서 한 다른 법이 내 마음의 법과 싸워 내 지체 속 에 있는 죄의 법으로 나를 사로잡는 것을 보는도다 오호라 나는 곤고한 사람이로다 이 사망의 몸에서 누가 나를 건져내랴 우리 주 예수 그리스도로 말미암아 하나님께 감사하리로다 그 런즉 내 자신이 마음으로는 하나님의 법을 육신으로는 죄의 법 을 섬기노라

28 The Believer and Indwelling Sin (Romans 7:14-25)

Introduction 14 For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. 15 For that which I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I do not wish to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that it is good. 17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which indwells me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the wishing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19 For the good that I wish, I do not do; but I practice the very evil that I do not wish.

Introduction 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not wish, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 21 I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wishes to do good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, 23 but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin. (7:14–25)

Which sort of person Christian Non-Christian 1st person singular Paul (1) Non-Christian (0) 1st person singular Paul Literary device (4) Post-conversion (3) Pre-conversion (2)

Introduction This passage is obviously a poignant(통한의) account of a person’s inner conflict(대립, 갈등) with himself, one part of him pulling one direction and another part pulling the opposite. The conflict is real and it is intense. For perhaps as long as the church has known this text, however, interpreters have disagreed as to whether the person described is a Christian or a non-Christian.(?1) Whole movements have arisen to promote one of those views or the other. One side maintains that the person is too much in bondage to sin to be a believer, whereas the other side maintains that the person has too much love for the things of God and too much hatred of sin to be an unbeliever.

Introduction It is obviously important, therefore, to determine which sort of person Paul is talking about before any interpretation of the passage is attempted. It is also of some importance to determine whether Paul’s first person singular refers to himself or whether that is simply a literary device(?2) he uses to identify more personally with his readers. The answer to those two questions will automatically answer a third: If Paul is speaking of himself, is he speaking of his condition before or after his conversion? (?3)

Which sort of person ?1 ?2 ?3 Non-Christian Christian 1st person singular Literary device Paul ?2 Post-conversion Pre-conversion ?3 (3)

Introduction Those who believe Paul is speaking about an unbeliever point out that he describes the person as being “of flesh, sold into bondage to sin” (v. 14), as having nothing good dwelling in him (v. 18), and as a “wretched man” trapped in a “body of … death” (v. 24). How then, it is argued, could such a person correspond to the Christian Paul describes in chapter 6 as having died to sin (v. 2), as having his old self crucified and no longer being enslaved to sin (v. 6), as being “freed from sin” (vv. 7, 18, 22), as considering himself dead to sin (v. 11), and as being obedient from the heart to God’s Word (v. 17)?

Introduction Those who contend Paul is speaking about a believer in chapter 7 point out that this person desires to obey God’s law and hates doing what is evil (vv. 15,19, 21), that he is humble before God, realizing that nothing good dwells in his humanness (v. 18), and that he sees sin as in him, but not all there is in him (vv. 17, 20–22). He gives thanks to Jesus Christ as his Lord and serves Him with his mind (v. 25). The apostle has already established that none of those things characterize the unsaved.

Introduction The unbeliever not only hates God’s truth and righteousness but suppresses them, he willfully rejects the natural evidence of God, he neither honors nor gives thanks to God, and he is totally dominated by sin so that he arrogantly disobeys God’s law and encourages others to do so (1:18–21, 32).

Introduction In Romans 6, Paul began his discussion of sanctification by focusing on the believer as a new creation, a completely new person in Christ. The emphasis is therefore on the holiness and righteousness of the believer, both imputed and imparted. For the reasons given in the previous paragraph, as well as for other reasons that will be mentioned later, it seems certain that in chapter 7 the apostle is still talking about the believer. Here, however, the focus is on the conflict a believer continues to have with sin.

Introduction Even in chapter 6, Paul indicates that believers still must continually do battle with sin in their lives. He therefore admonishes them: “Do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness” (Rom. 6:12–13).

Introduction Some interpreters believe that chapter 7 describes the carnal(세속적인), or fleshly, Christian, one who is living on a very low level of spirituality. Many suggest that this person is a frustrated, legalistic Christian who attempts in his own power to please God by trying to live up to the Mosaic law. But the attitude expressed in chapter 7 is not typical of legalists, who tend to be self-satisfied with their fulfillment of the law. Most people are attracted to legalism in the first place because it offers the prospect of living up to God’s standards by one’s own power.

Introduction It seems rather that Paul is here describing the most spiritual and mature of Christians, who, the more they honestly measure themselves against God’s standards of righteousness the more they realize how much they fall short. The closer we get to God, the more we see our own sin. Thus it is immature, fleshly, and legalistic persons who tend to live under the illusion that they are spiritual and that they measure up well by God’s standards. The level of spiritual insight(영적 분별력), brokenness, contrition(회개), and humility that characterize the person depicted in Romans 7 are marks of a spiritual and mature believer, who before God has no trust in his own goodness and achievements.

Introduction It also seems, as one would naturally suppose from the use of the first person singular (which appears forty-six times in Rom. 7:7–25), that Paul is speaking of himself. Not only is he the subject of this passage, but it is the mature and spiritually seasoned apostle that is portrayed. Only a Christian at the height of spiritual maturity would either experience or be concerned about such deep struggles of heart, mind, and conscience. The more clearly and completely he saw God’s holiness and goodness, the more Paul recognized and grieved over his own sinfulness.

Introduction Paul reflects the same humility many places in his writings. In his first letter to the church at Corinth, he confessed, “I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God” (1 Cor. 15:9). Although he refers there to his attitude and actions before his conversion, he speaks of his apostleship in the present tense, considering himself still to be unworthy of that high calling. To the Ephesian believers he spoke of himself as “the very least of all saints” (Eph. 3:8), and to Timothy he marvelled that the Lord “considered me faithful, putting me into service” and refers to himself as the foremost of sinners (1 Tim. 1:12, 15). He knew and confessed that whatever he was in Christ was fully due to the grace of God (1 Cor. 15:10).

Introduction Only a new creation in Christ lives with such tension of sin against righteousness, because only a Christian has the divine nature of God within him. Because he is no longer in Adam but now in Christ, he possesses the Spirit-given desire to be conformed to Christ’s own image and be made perfect in righteousness. But sin still clings to his humanness, although in his inner being he hates and despises it. He has passed from darkness to light and now shares in Christ’s death, burial, resurrection, and eternal life, but as he grows in Christlikeness, he also becomes more and more aware of the continued presence and power of indwelling sin, which he loathes and longs to be rid of.

Introduction It is such sensitivity that caused the fourth-century church Father John Chrysostom to say in his Second Homily on Eutrophius that he feared nothing but sin. The person depicted in Romans 7 has a deep awareness of his own sin and an equally deep desire to please the Lord in all things. Only a mature Christian could be so characterized.

Introduction The Puritan writer Thomas Watson observed that one of the certain signs of “sanctification is an antipathy against sin … A hypocrite may leave sin, yet love it; as a serpent casts its coat, but keeps its sting; but a sanctified person can say he not only leaves sin, but loathes it.” He goes on to say to the Christian, “God … has not only chained up sin, but changed thy nature, and made thee as a king’s daughter, all glorious within. He has put upon thee the breastplate of holiness, which, though it may be shot at, can never be shot through” (A Body of Divinity [London: Banner of truth, rev. ed., 1965], pp. 246,250).

Introduction The spiritual believer is sensitive to sin because he knows it grieves the Holy Spirit (Eph. 4:30), because it dishonors God (1 Cor. 6:19–20), because sin keeps his prayers from being answered (1 Pet. 3:12), and because sin makes his life spiritually powerless (1 Cor. 9:27). because it causes good things from God to be withheld (Jer. 5:25), because it robs him of the joy of salvation (Ps. 51:12), because it inhibits spiritual growth (1 Cor. 3:1), because it brings chastisement from the Lord (Heb. 12:7), and because it prevents his being a fit vessel for the Lord to use (2 Tim. 2:21).

Introduction The spiritual believer is sensitive to sin because it pollutes Christian fellowship (1 Cor. 10:21), because it prevents participating properly in the Lord’s Supper (1 Cor. 11:28–29), and because it can even endanger his physical life and health (1 Cor. 11:30; 1 John 5:16).

Introduction As pointed out in the previous chapter of this volume, Paul uses past tense verbs in Romans 7:7–13, which doubtless indicates he was speaking of his preconversion life. Beginning in verse 14, however, and continuing throughout the rest of the chapter, he uses the present tense exclusively in reference to himself. That abrupt, obvious, and consistent change of tenses strongly supports the idea that in verses 14–25 Paul is describing his life as a Christian.

Introduction Beginning in verse 14 there is also an obvious change in the subject’s circumstances in relation to sin. In verses 7–13 Paul speaks of sin as deceiving and slaying him. He gives the picture of being at sin’s mercy and helpless to extricate himself from its deadly grasp. But in verses 14–25 he speaks of a conscious and determined battle against sin, which is still a powerful enemy but is no longer his master. In this latter part of the chapter Paul also continues to defend the righteousness of God’s law and rejoice in the benefits of His law, which, although it cannot save from sin, can nevertheless continue to reveal and convict of sin in the believer’s life, just as it did before salvation.

Introduction As long as a believer remains on earth in his mortal and corrupted body, the law will continue to be his spiritual ally. The obedient and Spirit-filled believer, therefore, greatly values and honors all the moral and spiritual commandments of God. He continues to declare with the psalmist, “Thy word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against Thee” (Ps. 119:11), and that Word is more than ever a lamp to his feet and a light to his path (Ps. 119:105). God’s Word is more valuable for believers under the New Covenant than it was for those under the Old Covenant, not only because the Lord has revealed more of His truth to us in the New Testament, but also because believers now have the fullness of His indwelling Holy Spirit to illumine and apply His truth.

Introduction Therefore, although the law cannot save or sanctify, it is still holy, righteous, and good (Rom. 7:12), and obedience to it offers great benefits both to believers and unbelievers. Paul is still teaching about the broader subject of justification by grace through faith. He has established that justification results in the believer’s security (chap. 5), his holiness (chap. 6), and his freedom from bondage to the law (7:1–6). To that list of benefits the apostle now adds sensitivity to and hatred of sin.

Introduction In Romans 7:14–25 Paul gives a series of laments (애통, 한탄) about his spiritual predicament(곤경) and difficulties. The first three laments (vv. 14–17, 18–20, 21–23) follow the same pattern. Paul first describes the spiritual condition he is lamenting, then gives proof of its reality, and finally reveals the source of the problem. The final lament (vv. 24–25) also includes a beautiful exultation of gratitude to God for His Son Jesus Christ, because of whose gracious sacrifice believers in Him are no longer under condemnation, in spite of the lingering power of sin (8:1).

This Week’s Conversation A: We have studied that Paul gave the four elements of the convicting work of God’s law in Romans. B: What are they? A: It reveals sin, it arouses sin, it ruins the sinner and it reflects the absolute sinfulness of sin. B: I realize what they are. Then what is the ultimate purpose of the law? A: It is to drive men to faith in Jesus Christ! B: Amen!

Next Week’s Conversation A: Have you read the passage in Roman Chapter 7: 13-25? B: Yes. It’s about a poignant account of a person’s inner conflict with himself. A: Great. Then do you have any idea which sort of person Paul is talking about? B: Well, I guess that he is talking about an unbeliever, because the person is described as being “of flesh, sold into bondage”. A: You picked up a right verse to support your guess, but the answer is not that simple. B: Can you tell me the right answer, then? A: We will find it out in the NIV English Bible Class.

This Week’s phrase The ultimate purpose of the law was to drive men to faith in Jesus Christ. The ultimate purpose of ____________ was(is) to ____________. (Nov. 13)

Next Week’s phrase One side maintains that the person is too much in bondage to sin to be a believer, whereas the other side maintains that the person has too much love for the things of God and too much hatred of sin to be an unbeliever One side maintains that _____________, whereas the other side maintains that _________________. (Nov. 20)

Today’s Prayer Let us honestly measure ourselves against God’s standards of righteousness and realize how much we fall short.

The Lord’s Prayer Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. (Matthew 6:9-13)

God will make a way God will make a way Where there seems to be no way He works in ways we cannot see He will make a way for me He will be my guide Hold me closely to His side With love and strength for each new day He will make a way.... He will make a way

Shalom My Friend Shalom My Friend Shalom, Shalom Till We meet again