# of Adults = 15
# of Children = 8
SITTER
Miss Markie
Please remember to bring $5 / per child - for child care.
DVD LESSON
Romans Chap. 7 (Lesson #11 of 12)
As Christians we are no longer slaves to sin. We are a new creation. However, we will still struggle with sin until the day we are in heaven. Paul teaches us how to fight well. In this session, we learn that “there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
CHAPTER 7
1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives?
2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.
3 So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.
4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about covet- ing if the Law had not said, “YOU SHALL NOT COVET.”
8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.
9 I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the com- mandment came, sin became alive and I died;
10 and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me;
11 for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it, killed me.
12 So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
13 Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.
14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.
15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.
16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.
17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.
19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
21 I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.
22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,
23 but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.
CHAPTER 8
1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,
4 so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
GROUP DISCUSSION
• Introductions to Rob & Morgan … Why do we like Gary? ☺
• We must obey God’s laws, why?
• Salvation, not Heaven is mentioned in the Bible
• Evil is present in us since we are not yet in Heaven.
• Sin dwells in our flesh like a rebellious serpent!
• Paul wrote a lot of the New Testament. He wrote of his struggles with sin.
• Invest in your soul: Music, positive people, good friends … our spirits our saved, our bodies are the devils playground, but our souls need salvation!
SNACKS
• March 9 = Koerner (THANK YOU MISSY)
• March 23 = Price
• April 6 = Loftis
PRAYER REQUESTS
• Gary / Kameron Morris is sick (stomach bug)
• Angie Brady / Baby girl Brady is due in 2 weeks!
• Angie Blight / Co-workers wife is in the hospital.
• Missy / Ray’s work & volunteer responsibilities
• Kris / Dakoda has had many behavior problems at school and on the bus.
PRAISE REPORTS
• Gary / Grampa is doing very well after hip replacement.
• Angie Blight / Gets to visit Mom over Easter with both kiddies.
• Todd / Grateful for great friends who helped with his shed.
• Jamey / Mom has her arm in a sling, but is doing better and is back to work.
• Angie Brady / well now, after having bronchitis
REMINDERS
• Egg Hunt at the YMCA = help is needed! See Mathew or Erik
• Bible Study Donation = We are collecting (whatever amount you feel you can give, please don’t feel pressured) for a cross for our church. It will be approved by Erik before we purchase it. We will be collecting for the next 2 meetings.
• This Friday = Women’s night out at church. While you were sleeping will be the movie that is played. Please join us if you are available.
• Reading for next mtg: ROMANS 8:5 - 39
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