| Justification
and law vv.1 - 6 1. What are the two preceding illustrations Paul uses to illustrate demands and implications of justification. 2. Who were Paul speaking to? 3. Explain how being under the law is likened to marriage. 4. What was the prerequisite for belonging to Christ? How? 5. What was the implication of Christ's resurrection regarding the law 6. How does Christ's sacrifice bring about justification, and release from the law? Result? 7. Contrast the condition and purpose of the believer before and after justification? 8. Explain what it is to "die to what once bound us" v6. Note: relate to 3:26 9. How should v. 6 affect the way we live? Law And Sin vv.7 - 13 1. What do we know to be the purpose of the law? 3:20 2. How does it fulfill its purpose for Paul? 3. What was the prohibition in Gen 2 intended for? v. 10 4. How does obedience bring about life 5."aphorme" established itself (built command post). 6. How did the law "produce" covetousness. See Ex. 20 7. Relate v. 9 to Genesis 2,3 8. What other way did sin hurt Paul? v11. 9. What was the intent of the law? (Gen. 2,3; Ex. 20.) 10. How does the law bring about death? vv. 7,8 11. How did sin pervert the intent of the Law? v. 8 12. Summarize Paul's opinion of the law. Main Lesson: Memory Verse: Romans 7:6 (NIV) 6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. |