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In the Bible room today, we continue reading the book of Romans. Here is Session 3, the summaries of chapters 6 and 7.

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Romans

Session 3

Chapter 6. Free

What then should we say next?

• Should there be more sinning so that grace would multiply?
• Absolutely not! How could we possibly continue to live in sin
• Since we have already died to sin? And, do you know that
• Baptism into Christ Jesus also means baptism into His death?
• Through baptism, we were buried with Him in death, so
• Just as Christ was raised from death, we also should live a new
• Kind of life; If we have joined with Him in His death, we
• Would also join with Him in His resurrection, knowing that
• Our old self was crucified with Him, that we might leave our
• Old, sinful ways behind, and no longer be slaves to sin, for he
• Who has died has been made free from sin;
• If we died with Christ, we believe we shall also live with Him;
• Christ will not see death again, and when He died, He died to
• Sin for all of us, and now He lives to God, and while you
• Consider yourselves dead to sin, you are also alive to God, in
• Christ Jesus, our Lord;
• So, do not allow sin to have control over your body where you
• Would obey its desires; And never permit your body to become
• A part of anything ungodly, causing you to sin, but always be in
• God’s presence, alive from death, to be used in service to Him;
• Now sin shall no longer have control over you, for you are no
• Longer under law, but under grace;
• What does this mean? Since we are living under grace, and not
• Under the law, shall we continue to sin? Absolutely not!
• Do you not know that whomever you choose to obey, you
• Become a slave for that which you choose, whether to sin for
• Death, or obedience for living right;
• But, thanks be to God, you once were slaves to sin, and yet you
• Obeyed the leading of your heart to the beliefs which have
• Been entrusted to you; And having been set free from sin, you
• Have become slaves to a life of right living; I am speaking now
• In human terms as your body is still weak; Before, when you
• Were slaves to sin, you were led into more sinning, but now    
• You can dedicate your body as a slave to right living unto
• Sanctification; When you were slaves to sin, you had little
• Regard for right living; What did you do then of which you
• Are now ashamed? Those things all lead to self-destruction;
• But now that you have been set free from sinning, you are
• Slaves to God, which leads to your sanctification and then to
• Eternal life; For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of
• God is eternal life in Christ Jesus are Lord.

Chapter 7. Saved

Do you not know, brothers, and I am sure that you do,

• That the law rules over a man for his entire life?
• As a woman who has a husband is committed to him for life,
• But if he dies, she then is released from him; But if he lives,
• And she marries another man, she will become an adulteress;
• But if he dies, she then is free from that law, and does not
• Become an adulteress, though she has married another man;
• Therefore, my brothers, you have died to the law through the
• Body of Christ, so that you may be married to Him who is
• Raised from death, that we might live for God;
• When we were still living after the desires of sin, convicted by
• The law, we were moving toward destruction; But now that we
• Have been made free from the law and sinning, we can live the
• New life in the Spirit, being loosed from the law;
• So, is the law sinful? Absolutely not! The law has served to
• Show me my sin; That’s how I knew it was wrong to covet:
• The law says ‘You shall not covet;’ But the law, by itself,
• Created opportunities for sin by bringing up all kinds of evil
• Desires within me, for without the law, sin would not exist;
• Without the law, I was once free to do whatever I wanted,
• When the commandments came, though they were intended to
• Bring life, they brought death to me, because I was deceived by
• Sin; But the law is holy, and the commandments are holy, and
• Just, and good; Has something good caused me to face death?
• Not at all! But sin, causing me to look like sin, was using the
• Commandments against me, and causing me to sin more;
• We know that the law is spiritual, but I am physical, bound to
• Sin; I do not understand what I am doing: I do not do what I
• Truly want to do, and I hate the things I actually do; So then
• When I do the things I do not want to do, I am proving that
• The law is good; Now, all the wrong things I do are actually
• Being done by the sin living within me; For I know that there
• Is nothing good living within my body, because I cannot figure
• Out how to do the good things I really want to do; There is a
• Law, I have found, that evil resides within me, even when I
• Want to do good things; For my inner man takes great pleasure
• In the law of God; But there is another law creating a war
• Within my mind, and it makes me a captive to the law of sin;
• I am such a wretched man! Who will save me from this dead
• Body? Thanks be to God, it is Jesus Christ our Lord!
• He has freed my mind to rightly serve God, and to control
• The sinful desires of the body.

End of Session 3 of the book of Romans.