Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
Romans 7:7–12

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1. THE LAW REVEALS SIN
2. SIN EXPLOITS THE LAW
3. THE LAW IS HOLY, RIGHTEOUS AND GOOD

Romans 5:13 (ESV)
for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.

Colossians 3:5 (ESV)
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Romans 5:13 (ESV)
for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.

Romans 6:2 (ESV)
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Romans 5:20 (ESV)
Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

John Calvin
You are not indeed to understand, that no difference whatever can be known between right and wrong without the law; but that without the law we are either too dull of apprehension to discern our depravity, or that we are made wholly insensible through self-flattery

Philippians 3:4–7 (ESV)
If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.