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2. Be exalted, O LORD, in Your own strength!
Psalm 21:13
Be exalted, O LORD, in Your own strength!
We will sing and praise Your power.
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3. Finding the Cause of Sin
Romans 7:7-25
Finding the Cause of Sin
ROMANS 3:1-18

4. Gospel: the Power of Salvation
- All men sin and are cut off from God - Justification is peace with God by death of enmity - Death at the cross is accessed in baptism - Baptism releases us from slavery - Jesus death was the ONLY way for a new covenant What is the cause of sin?

5. Law is NOT the Cause
Blaming law for sin is incorrect - The law is GOOD - It revealed death
Imagine going to a doctor and he finds you are dying. Is it the doctor’s fault?

6. Serving the Flesh
Flesh: the physical nature 1 Corinthians 2:12 – 3:3 Flesh: Natural, carnal, unspiritual, worldly Man’s place in the natural world is by flesh 2 Peter 2:12 Jude 10
2Pe 2:12 But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,
Jude 1:10 But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.

7. Serving the Flesh
James 1:13-15 Flesh is NOT beyond our control Its desires are sinful INSOFAR as they are without reason or understanding
Jas 1:13 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. 14 But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. 15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.

8. Flesh: ONE Cause of Sin
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world John 2:16
2Pe 2:12 But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,
Jude 1:10 But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.

9. What is a Covenant
A covenant includes LAW "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them," then He adds, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.“ Hebrews 10:16

10. What is a Covenant
A covenant includes LAW So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. Exodus 34:28

11. What is a Covenant
A covenant includes LAW The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant. Isaiah 24:5

12. What is a Covenant
A covenant includes LAW They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to walk in His law; Psalm 78:10

13. What is a Covenant
A covenant includes PROMISES PROMISE: reward, inheritance, prize, gift PROMISE: a contract rewarded by performance

14. What is a Covenant
A covenant includes PROMISES But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises. Hebrews 8:6

15. What is a Covenant
A covenant includes PROMISES 'So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you. Leviticus 26:9

16. What is a Covenant
A covenant includes PROMISES Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy the house of David because of the covenant which He had made with David, and since He had promised to give a lamp to him and his sons forever. 2 Chronicles 21:7

17. What is a Covenant
A covenant includes PROMISES My lovingkindness I will keep for him forever, and My covenant shall be confirmed to him. Psalm 89:28

18. What is a Covenant
A covenant includes PROMISES Remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world Ephesians 2:12

19. What is a Covenant It is BOTH a law AND a promise
A COVENANT is more than just a law or a promise;
It is BOTH a law AND a promise
Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises, Romans 9:4

20. What is a Covenant It is BOTH a law AND a promise
A COVENANT is more than just a law or a promise;
It is BOTH a law AND a promise
Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises, Romans 9:4

21. What Characterizes a Covenant
A covenant cannot be revoked A contract/promise can be revoked A law can be revoked

22. What Characterizes a Covenant
A covenant cannot be revoked Brethren, I speak in terms of human relations: even though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been ratified, no one sets it aside or adds conditions to it. Galatians 3:15

23. What Characterizes a Covenant
A covenant cannot be revoked A covenant cannot be changed once enacted Brethren, I speak in terms of human relations: even though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been ratified, no one sets it aside or adds conditions to it. Galatians 3:15

24. What Characterizes a Covenant
A covenant cannot be revoked A covenant is perpetual Perpetual is the same as everlasting It has no set end time It ends with fulfillment or death
Perpetual / everlasting – until it is fulfilled

25. What Characterizes a Covenant
A covenant cannot be revoked A covenant is perpetual NOAH: Genesis 9:12 – perpetual covenant ABRAHAM: Genesis 17:7 – everlasting covenant MOSES: Exodus 31:16 – perpetual covenant PHINEHAS: Numbers 25:13 – perpetual covenant DAVID: 2 Samuel 23:5 – everlasting covenant
Some are confused because God calls the Sabbath a everlasting covenant - Le 24:8 "Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel.
ALL covenants are called everlasting / perpetual

26. What Characterizes a Covenant
A covenant cannot be revoked A covenant is perpetual When a covenant is broke: There is a penalty (sin) The guilty party CANNOT re-covenant UNTIL the death of the innocent party

27. Romans 7 – the Marriage Covenant
ONLY the death of Christ (God in the flesh) could a new covenant be instituted:
Hebrews 9:16
For where a covenant is,
there must of necessity be the death
of the one who made it.
Marriage is a covenant – Malachi 2:14 It has a law – Ephesians 5:23-33, 1 Cor. 7:2-5 It has a promise – Matthew 19:5 As a covenant it is until death – Romans 7:2 Breaking it has consequences – Romans 7:3

28. Why Jesus Died Covenant of Adam Covenant of Christ Covenant of Noah
Covenant of Abraham
Covenant of Moses
Covenant of Phinehas
Covenant of David
Covenant of Christ

29. Why Jesus Died Covenant of Adam Covenant of Christ Covenant of Noah
Galatians 3:17-19
Subsequent covenants CANNOT invalidate a previously instituted covenant
Covenant of Adam
Covenant of Noah
Covenant of Abraham
Covenant of Moses
Covenant of Phinehas
Covenant of David
Covenant of Christ
Ga 3:17 What I am saying is this: the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise. 18 For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on a promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by means of a promise. 19 Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

30. Why Jesus Died Covenant of Adam Covenant of Christ Covenant of Noah
Covenant of Abraham
Covenant of Moses
Covenant of Phinehas
Covenant of David
Covenant of Christ

31. Why Jesus Died Covenant of Adam Covenant of Christ Covenant of Noah
Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come
Covenant of Adam
Covenant of Noah
Covenant of Abraham
Covenant of Moses
Covenant of Phinehas
Covenant of David
Covenant of Christ

32. Why Jesus Died Covenant of Adam Covenant of Christ Covenant of Noah
Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come
Covenant of Adam
Covenant of Noah
Covenant of Abraham
Covenant of Moses
Covenant of Phinehas
Covenant of David
Covenant of Christ

33. Why Jesus Died Covenant of Adam Covenant of Christ Covenant of Noah
Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come
Covenant of Adam
Covenant of Noah
Covenant of Abraham
Covenant of Moses
Covenant of Phinehas
Covenant of David
Covenant of Christ

34. Why Jesus Died Covenant of Adam (Man) Covenant of Christ
Covenant of Noah
Covenant of Abraham
Covenant of Moses
Covenant of Phinehas
Covenant of David
Covenant of Christ

35. Why Jesus Died Covenant of Adam (Man) Covenant of Christ
Covenant of Noah (Blood)
Covenant of Abraham
Covenant of Moses
Covenant of Phinehas
Covenant of David
Covenant of Christ

36. Why Jesus Died Covenant of Adam (Man) Covenant of Christ
Covenant of Noah (Blood)
Covenant of Abraham (Blessings)
Covenant of Moses
Covenant of Phinehas
Covenant of David
Covenant of Christ

37. Why Jesus Died Covenant of Adam (Man) Covenant of Christ
Covenant of Noah (Blood)
Covenant of Abraham (Blessings)
Covenant of Moses (Prophet)
Covenant of Phinehas
Covenant of David
Covenant of Christ

38. Why Jesus Died Covenant of Adam (Man) Covenant of Christ
Covenant of Noah (Blood)
Covenant of Abraham (Blessings)
Covenant of Moses (Prophet)
Covenant of Phinehas (High Priest)
Covenant of David (King)
Covenant of Christ

39. Messiah: Prophet Priest and King
Why Jesus Died
Covenant of Adam (Man)
Covenant of Noah (Blood)
Covenant of Abraham (Blessings)
Covenant of Moses (Prophet)
Covenant of Phinehas (High Priest)
Covenant of David (King)
Covenant of Christ
Messiah: Prophet Priest and King

40. Why Jesus Died Covenant of Adam (Man) To save the world – John 3:16
Covenant of Noah (Blood)
Covenant of Abraham (Blessings)
Covenant of Moses (Prophet)
Covenant of Phinehas (High Priest)
Covenant of David (King)
Covenant of Christ
To save the world – John 3:16
Messiah: Prophet Priest and King

41. Why Jesus Died Covenant of Adam (Man)
Covenant of Noah (Blood)
Covenant of Abraham (Blessings)
Covenant of Moses (Prophet)
Covenant of Phinehas (High Priest)
Covenant of David (King)
Covenant of Christ
Through the Blood of Jesus – Matt. 26:28
To save the world – John 3:16
Messiah: Prophet Priest and King

42. Why Jesus Died To restore Adam’s promise – Rev. 22:2-3
Covenant of Adam (Man)
Covenant of Noah (Blood)
Covenant of Abraham (Blessings)
Covenant of Moses (Prophet)
Covenant of Phinehas (High Priest)
Covenant of David (King)
Covenant of Christ
Through the Blood of Jesus – Matt. 26:28
To save the world – John 3:16
Messiah: Prophet Priest and King
Re 22:2 in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him;

43. Why Jesus Died Covenant of Adam (Man) 1 Corinthians 15:45
Covenant of Noah (Blood)
Covenant of Abraham (Blessings)
Covenant of Moses (Prophet)
Covenant of Phinehas (High Priest)
Covenant of David (King)
Covenant of Christ
1 Corinthians 15:45
So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
1Co 15:45 So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. 47 The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. 48 As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly. 50 Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

44. Understanding Covenants:
Refutes false doctrines on OT practices Israel is still a peculiar nation to God Keeping the ten commandments

45. Understanding Covenants:
Refutes false doctrines on OT practices Refutes false doctrines on salvation Eternal security “saved by faith only” No law in Christ, only grace

46. Understanding Covenants:
Refutes false doctrines on OT practices Refutes false doctrines on salvation Refutes false doctrines on the identity of Jesus Jesus was not God

47. Understanding Covenants:
Refutes false doctrines on OT practices Refutes false doctrines on salvation Refutes false doctrines on the identity of Jesus Refutes false doctrines on divorce & remarriage That another law exists for non-Christians That we can enter a new marriage covenant

48. Understanding Covenants:
Refutes false doctrines on OT practices Refutes false doctrines on salvation Refutes false doctrines on the identity of Jesus Refutes false doctrines on divorce & remarriage Refutes false doctrines on modern revelations A new law, gospel or plan

50. Romans Road of Salvation
Hearing and Believing ……….Romans 10:17 Confessing Jesus as Lord ……..Romans 10:9 Repentance from sin ….….Romans 6:11-13 Baptism into Christ ……………Romans 6:3-4 Remaining faithful ……………Romans 12:1-2