The Amalgamation

There are a few answers to that question, but for now I want to focus in on one area.

To get the most out of this Bible Study, read the Scripture excerpt carefully, then answer the questions based on what you read in the Scripture text.

Romans 7:21-25, Romans 8:1-9

So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God–through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit. Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. (NIV)

•    Why did God send His Son, Jesus? (Rom 7:24-25, Rom 8:2-4)
•   Verse 1 says, “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus…” Taken in the context of the rest of this Scripture, mean that there is never any sort of condemnation for a follower of Christ?

•    Compare this to Romans 6:1-4:

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. (NIV)

•    Does being saved by faith and grace mean that it is acceptable to continue walking in sin?
•  Why is there “now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus… who do not live according to the flesh..”? (Rom 8:1,4)
•    Who is unable to please God? (Rom 8: 8 )
•    What are the characteristics of the person who cannot please God? (Rom 8:5-7)
•    What are the two laws competing for our attention? (Rom 7:21-25)
•    How is a slave to sin released from sin? (Rom 7:24-25