Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
April 7, 2024
Romans 7:7-13
1. God’s Law is
and is Intended to
and Lead to
. (Vs. 7, 10, 12; Lev 18:5)
Leviticus 18:5, “Keep my statutes and ordinances; a person will live if he does them. I am the LORD.”
2. Our Sinful Nature:
a. Sets Up
b.
1 Timothy 2:14, “And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and transgressed.”
Philippians 3:4-7, “If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised the eighth day; of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; regarding the law, a Pharisee; regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness that is in the law, blameless. But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ.”
3. The
of God is Greater than the “
” of Sin.
a. God Brings
Proverbs 2:6, “For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.”
b. God Reveals the
Romans 8:3-4, “For what the law could not do since it was weakened by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as a sin offering, in order that the law’s requirement would be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”