Shane asked a couple of questions in the comments section for Romans 6. “Is this then to say that the Law was done away with Christ’s sacrifice? Did the Law ever condemn or was it sin that condemned? How do we determine which pieces of the Law are still binding?” I’m sure Brother Shane won’t mind if I make these questions the basis of this stage of the defense of God by Paul (herein referred to as Sha’ul)…as in the text.
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According to Romans 7, is Paul describing a pre-conversion experience
or a post-conversion experience? Why aren’t we perfect after being
justified and reckoning ourselves dead? Is there even a problem that we
should be aware of? What is a believers current relation to sin?
Is a dichotomous lifestyle applauded by Paul in Romans 7 (as in
Christian in the inside, but continually sinful in the flesh? What does
the flow of thought tell us?
Update: We worked out the study over in this section here and Romans 8.
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Linking Up to the Roman Road
Since I’ve been going through Romans I thought I would put up some links to some of the material I based the work on. There’s a longer list over at worldcat but that’s just for lifelong Romans reading.
- Augustine (Early Church)
- Barnhouse
- Barth
- Bruce (only browsed through as confirmatory on some things…looked good, but short)
- Calvin
- Chrysostom (Early Church)
- Cranfield (Volume 1, Volume 2)
- Darby’s Synopsis (Plymouth Brethren)
- Dunn (Volume 1, Volume 2) (New Perspective)
- Expositor’s Bible Commentary
- Hodge
- Fitzmeyer
- Kelly (Plymouth Brethren)
- Luther
- MacArthur (Volume 1, Volume 2)
- MacDonald (Plymouth Brethren)
- Moo
- Morris
- Newell’s Commentary Online (Plymouth Brethren)
- Schreiner
- Stott (only browsed through…looked good)
- An Introduction to Romans (Wallace)
- Wright (New Perspective)
- Wuest: Word Studies in the Greek New Testament
- The NET Bible was also indispensable.
Jesus, after revealing to His disciples a promise of persecution, takes another moment to bolster their faith. First He has told them that He?s leaving and we know that He speaks of His death?so how does He strengthen them? Does He explain the mystery of His resurrected body and the way that it will function? Does He explain how heaven looks like or the fact that death will no longer have a sting? It?s probably the way any of us would do it?but Jesus instead underscores the benefit of his leaving and what it means to the future.
Jesus now has to get the disciples? blood moving to make understand the implications of these lessons in holiness. The Lord puts a break in their lesson and tells the disciples to arise and go out from here (14:31). This change of atmosphere itself is a lesson. It?s all well and good to remember the Lord?s lesson on love and separateness when you?re in a warm upper room with food spread out before you?but it is completely different to remember that lesson out in the dark, cold world where betrayal lay right around the corner.