{"id":349,"date":"2008-05-07T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1002things.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2022-03-18T17:03:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T23:03:15","slug":"romans-79-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Romans 7:9-10"},"content":{"rendered":"

9\u00a0<\/sup>I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

10\u00a0<\/sup>And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

I was alive \u2014 in contrast to “sin is dead” in verse 8<\/span><\/a>. Paul refers to freedom from a disturbing conscience, unaware of his alienation from God.<\/h3>\n

when the commandment came \u2014 He became aware of the law and its restrictions upon his natural tendencies<\/h3>\n

sin revived \u2014 manifested its evil<\/h3>\n

I died \u2014 Paul realized the sinfulness of sin and his lostness.<\/h3>\n

\u00a0bring life \u2014 promised life as a reward for obedience<\/h3>\n

The former imagined state of happiness had given place to a realization of the actual condition in the sight of God.<\/h3>\n

The blame for man’s condition is placed on man’s sin, not on the law (verses 8<\/span><\/a>, 9, 11, 13<\/span><\/a>).<\/h3>\n

Having learned this, we must die to everything of self. The law hastens this process by teaching us that there is no hope in self-effort. No man can keep the law of God. Let us not fall into the error of the Pharisees who boasted in the law; actually, they built themselves up, like a short man who buys platform-sole shoes. At the same time, they sought to whittle the divine law to their measure, and consoled themselves with the notion that they were almost reaching the measure of God’s standards. If we are guilty of such smugness, the Holy Spirit must crucify it before we can even begin to be sanctified. Holiness produced by the flesh, no matter what its form, is hateful to God. He wants only the holiness that comes by the Holy Spirit through Christ. \u2014 Barnhouse, page 230.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

9\u00a0I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 10\u00a0And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. I was alive \u2014 in contrast to “sin is dead” … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6509,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/6509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}