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We began looking at the second section of Romans 7 last week and I am going to try to finish it up today. In this section of Scripture Paul describes the spiritually mature believer’s conflict with sin. A conflict that begins the moment we trust Christ, but we are more acutely aware of it as we grow in Christ.
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As long as the church has had the book of Romans there has been a controversy over the verses that we are going to look at this morning. The controversy is whether the subject of this part of Scripture is an unbeliever or a believer and whether Paul is speaking about himself or if he is just using the first person figuratively to make his discourse more personal.
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For two weeks we have been out of the book of Romans looking at two other passages that deal with our sanctification, that process where the Holy Spirit who indwells us matches our behavior to the positional righteousness that we have in Christ due to being forgiven and justified by God because we came in faith to Jesus Christ for salvation.
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Romans 5:12-21 is by many considered to be the most difficult passage in the book of Romans. We are only going to look at the introduction to this passage this morning and then we will tackle the rest of it next week. I believe that the basic truths that Paul wants us to understand are simple and clear and that is what we are going to look at. I am not going to try and delve into the complexities that the theologians debate, but we will look at what Paul says to us.
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