February 20, 2002 Lesson 23

Intro Review:

Ø 7:7-13 The production of the Law and its relationship to sin

7:7 Begins by dealing with another objector's question!

- "What shall we say then? Is the law sin?"

- What do we know about the Law?

#1 Rom. 3:20 gives us a knowledge of sin

#2 Rom. 4:15 w/o law there is no violation

#3 Jms 1:22-25 the law is a mirror

7:8 The law as stimulator!

- But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.

- The source of the coveting, these intense desires, is the Sin nature not the commandment! The law is the stimulator!

In 7:9-11 we see the law as the terminator, it brings separation

7:9 "Once alive apart from the law"

- this speaks of the time in ones life before being confronted by God's law with all its implications

- The contrast; but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died;

7:10 and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me;

(literal translation ) I found/discovered with ref to me the commandment [content or it] which (was) to result [eij] in life this [commandment] resulted in death.