Sunday Sermons
Because They Don’t Know Yet
The Law and the Gospel 2
Romans 8:12-17
I. Key Idea
1. People with Obligations
Before Jesus died on the cross?A His last words were it is finished. The meaning of these words is that Jesus has paid the obligation for us. Why did Jesus who came to earth as second Adam say this? When did we put ourselves in obligation? It is referring to the fact that Adam?A our ancestor?A committed sin by eating the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam?A the representative of the human kind?A broke the covenant with God who gave him life. Sin and death came into the world when Adam ate the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because he wanted to become independent rather than dependent on God. This act broke the relationship with God. The bible describes this as being burdened with obligation. Fear in our minds is the evidence and the result of the fact that we have committed sin. People put great efforts in order to fulfill the obligation?A thinking that we can come back to God once we do. This way of thinking is expressed through religious acts as well as trying to do good deeds. However?A we realize that religious acts and good deeds are merely another hopeless efforts to become a god. Because we can see human nature of arrogance in the era of new age and in the movement of unification of religion where they teach people to become their own gods. Living according to the flesh?A stated in todays scripture?A also refers to peoples efforts to gain salvation through their own deeds rather than accepting the way to the salvation that God has prepared for us. This represents people with obligations living according to the flesh.
2. To kill the deeds of the flesh with the spirit
3. The spirit of sonship
4. Co-heirs with Christ
II. Small Group Discussions
1. Please discuss examples of living in the Gospel and living a life in the law
2. Please discuss what it means to live in the glory as co-heirs with the Christ in heaven
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