Category Archives: Romans

“For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.” (Romans 7:22–23, ESV) In 1969, when I entered college, I applied for andContinue reading “The Believer’s War (Romans 7:21-21-25)”

“For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.” (Romans 7:15, ESV) I have met with many people who are addicted to one thing or another. I have great empathy for these people, because the majority that I have counseled,Continue reading “Beating the Addiction (Romans 7:14-20)”

“But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.” (Romans 7:8–9, ESV) I do not know if you have had this experience.Continue reading “The Enticement (Romans 7:7-11)”

Today, I felt led to take a quick break from the study in Romans to look at the reaction to the recent corona virus situation. “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but inContinue reading “Do Not Panic (Philippians 4:4-7)”

“Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God . . . But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead whereinContinue reading “Free to Bear Fruit (Romans 7:1-6)”

“But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:22–23, KJV 1900) When I was a young boy, I rememberContinue reading “Cost of a Gift (Romans 6:20-23)”

“For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.” (Romans 6:19, ESV) There are a variety of old expressions that describe behaviors and their results, like these. You are what you eat! ItContinue reading “What you seek changes you! (Rom 6:19)”

“But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.” (Romans 6:17–18, ESV) As we look back, one of the blights on our nation’sContinue reading “Change of Ownership (Romans 6:15-18)”

“Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.” (Romans 6:13–14, ESV)Continue reading “Beautiful Instruments (Romans 6:12-14)”

“Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:11, KJV 1900) When I was a boy, I used to watch a show called “The Beverly Hillbillies.” It was a show about a poor mountain man named Jed who stumbled upon oil whenContinue reading “Considering Fact (Romans 6:5-11)”