Of whom is Paul writing in Romans 7:14-25?
(Romans 7) Blog Nov. 19-25, 2017
Prepared by Richard A. Marin: Present Truth PO Box 700, Fallbrook CA 92088-0700 USA
REVIEW: In Romans Paul presents the Gospel and how to be saved by it. He says God will make a final assessment to determine who has received the Gospel. Our obedience will be the evidence that we trust in the righteousness of Jesus as our only hope of acceptance into God’s kingdom. That righteousness God provided in the perfect life and atoning death of Jesus. Nothing we do, nor anything done to us (like baptism), nor anything done in us (like spiritual transformation) is how it is accounted ours. Rather the perfect righteousness of God’s Son is counted ours when we personally believe in it.
The Woman of Romans 7 (Romans 7:1-4; Exodus 20:14)
1. Of what law is Paul writing in these verses?
2. What commandment binds a married woman to her husband?
3. When is a married woman free from the law that binds her to her husband?
4. Is a woman whose husband has died free to marry another man?
5. To whom does Paul liken the woman of Romans 7?
THE MAN of Romans 7 (Romans 7:4-13; 2:28-29; 1 Cor. 15:56; 2 Cor. 3:6)
6. According to verse four, to whom is the believer “married”?
7. Through what aspect of Christ’s incarnation is the believer freed from the Law?
8. How is it that Christ’s life frees the believer from God’s Law?
9. What is the fruit those “married” to Jesus bear?
10. What expression does Paul use to describe our service to our new husband?
11. Of whom is Paul writing in verses 7-13? And in what tense of the verb?
12. What does sin use to produce covetousness in the heart of an unbeliever?
13. According to verses 7-13 what relationship exists between the law and sin?
14. What does Paul say about God’s Ten Commandment Law?
The man of Romans 7 (Romans 7:14-25; 5:12; Eccl. 7:20; Gal. 5:17)
15. What change in Paul’s story line occurs in verse 14?
16. With what two words in verse 14 does Paul contrast the law with himself?
17. Who sold Paul under sin?
18. What is the attitude of the man of Romans 7:14-25 in regard to the Law?
19. What drags down the obedience to God’s Law that the man of Romans 7:14-25 desires to do?
20. Of whom is Paul writing in verses 14-25? And in what tense of the verb?
21. Are all the good works of God’s people tainted with sin?
22. Is righteousness naturally found in human beings?
23. By whom and when did Paul expect to be delivered from his sinful nature?
ANSWERS: 1. The Ten Commandments; 2. The seventh commandment; 3. When he dies; 4. Yes; 5. To believers in Jesus who have died to the Law; 6. To Jesus; 7. His body which represents his life; 8. Christ’s life perfectly fulfilled God’s Law for all who are found in him for it is counted as their fulfillment of the Law’s demands thus setting them free from the obligation to fulfill it in order to be accepted by God & so free from its condemnation; 9. The fruit of the Spirit & the fruit of more converts to Christ; 10. “serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter”; 11. Of himself in the past tense; 12. The law; 13. The law that was meant to give life now points out & defines sin & sin uses the law to condemn & enslave sinners; 14. That they are holy, just, & good; 15. He does not change the person but he changes from the past tense to the present tense; 16. Spiritual & carnal; 17. Adam; 18. He considers it good (v. 17), he wants to obey it (v. 18), he delights in it (v. 22), & he serves it with his mind (v. 25); 19. Sin that dwells in him; 20. Of himself as a true Christian in the present tense; 21. Yes; 22. No, not since the Fall; 23. By Jesus at future glorification according to Romans 8:17.