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Reflection on Romans 7:7-8
Post date: 2012-08-08Autor: BCP
The law of sin can be compared to a factory for the production of deadly weapons. The manufacturers can use the most precious materials like gold, silver or platinum, but the product will always be a terrible instrument of death. Similarly, an unconverted man who has not given Jesus the first place in his life and not received His Holy Spirit may devote himself to holy things, interpret the Word of God, hold church office, but the result of his activity will always be spiritual death.
Reflection on Romans 7:5-6
Post date: 2012-07-09Autor: BCP
God’s Word says that we have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that is through Jesus crucified, and that we should walk in the newness of the Spirit. We who are united to Him in His death are the Mystical Body of Christ. Through His death we are dead to sin, but we have become dead to the law as well.
Reflection on Romans 7:1-4
Post date: 2012-06-11Autor: BCP
Rom 7:1-3: The first husband is the law. The second husband is Christ. The married woman is each one of us. The law convicts us of sin and thus condemns us to death. It makes requirements but does not give us the strength to fulfil them and justly convicts us saying that the wages of sin is death (6:23). Therefore, the Lord Jesus died for us to save us from death. Thus we are delivered from the yoke of the law and He, the Risen One, is the second husband. He does not dispense us from the requirements of the law; on the contrary, He requires an even more rigid adherence to the law in our hearts, but the difference is that He Himself – the Risen One, whom we now belong to, fulfils His requirements in us. “Abide in Me, and I in you ... without Me you can do nothing.” (Jn 15:4-5)
Word of life – Rom 7:4
Post date: 2012-05-26Autor: BCP
“Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to Him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.”
Word of life – Rom 7:3
Post date: 2012-05-12Autor: BCP
“Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.”
Word of life – Rom 7:1-2
Post date: 2012-04-28Autor: BCP
“Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.”
Word of life – Rom 6:8
Post date: 2012-04-14Autor: BCP
“Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him.”
Word of life – Rom 6:4
Post date: 2012-03-31Autor: BCP
“We were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”
Word of life - Rom 6:3
Post date: 2012-03-17Autor: BCP
“Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?”
Word of life – Rom 6:1-2
Post date: 2012-03-03Autor: BCP
“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?”
Word of life – Rom 5:21
Post date: 2012-02-18Autor: BCP
“… so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Word of life – Rom 5:20
Post date: 2012-02-04Autor: BCP
“Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.”
Word of life – Rom 5:19
Post date: 2012-01-21Autor: BCP
“For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one Man the many will be made righteous.”
Word of life – Rom 5:18
Post date: 2012-01-06Autor: BCP
“Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.”
Word of life – Rom 5:17
Post date: 2011-12-24Autor: BCP
“For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.”
Word of life – Rom 5:16
Post date: 2011-12-10Autor: BCP
“And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification.”
Word of life – Rom 5:15
Post date: 2011-11-26Autor: BCP
“But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.”
Word of life - Rom 5:14
Post date: 2011-11-12Autor: BCP
“Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.”
Word of life - Rom 5:12
Post date: 2011-10-30Autor: BCP
“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned...”
Word of life Rom 5:11
Post date: 2011-10-15Autor: BCP
“But more than that, we even boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.”