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#RxF4Now—Dead Man Walking

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• The Self-portrait—Romans 7:7-24
  • Psalm 38:5 NLT—“My wounds fester and because of my foolish sins.”
  • Isaiah 1:6 NLT—“You are from head to foot—covered with bruises, welts, and infected wounds—without any ointments or bandages.”
  • Martin Luther: “Human nature is like a peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.”
  • Philippians 3:4-6—“If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day . . . in regard to the law, a Pharisee; . . . as for righteousness based on the law, .”
  • Matthew 5:21-22, 27-28: “‘You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, “You shall not murder” [6^th Commandment] . . . But I tell you that anyone who is with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. . . . You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery’ [7^th Commandment]. But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his .’”
  • The Tenth Commandment (“You shall not covet”) radically shifts our focus on the Law of God/Ten Commandments from compliance to obedience.
  • Psalm 119—David sings about the Law of God:
    • v 97—“Oh, how I love Your ! I meditate on it all day long.”
    • v 172—“May my tongue sing of Your word, for all Your are righteous.”
    • v 127—“I love Your more than gold, more than pure gold.”
    • v 18—“Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in Your .”
    • v 64—“The earth is filled with Your , O LORD; teach me Your decrees.”
  • Romans 7:12—“So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and .”
  • John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: “I was more loathsome in my own eyes than was a toad; and I thought I was so in God’s eyes too; sin and corruption, I said, would as naturally bubble out of my heart, as water would bubble out of a fountain. I thought now that everyone had a better heart than I had; I could have changed heart with anybody; I thought none but the devil himself could equalize me for inward wickedness and pollution of mind. I fell, therefore, at the sign of my own vileness, deeply into despair.” (quoted in Camron Schofield Heralding the Loud Cry 32).
• The Savior—Romans 7:25
  • The purpose and point of the Law is to us to .
    • Galatians 3:24—“Therefore the law was our tutor [guardian] to us to Christ.”
    • To throw the Law out, to get rid of the Ten Commandments—as some are inclined to teach and to do—is to cut your soul off from the very Law Giver who is your only .
  • Christ’s Object Lessons: “His law is a transcript of His own , and it is the standard of all character. This infinite standard is presented to all that there may be no mistake in regard to the kind of people whom God will have to compose His kingdom.” (315)
  • Camron Schofield: “So if you did everything right in your whole entire life, will the law be satisfied? It can’t be satisfied because your right-doing [the definition of “righteousness”] is not what the law wants. What the law wants is God’s right-doing, God’s perfect life—and we, in ourselves, do we have it to offer? We don’t. Is there any room for you in this picture? Can you satisfy the law? Can you? Have you in your life attained unto the very perfection of God? To do that you would have to be God yourself. Are you God? You’re not God!” (Heralding the Loud Cry 33)
    • “We CAN NOT. We can do nothing to effect our own salvation. And it’s a frightful realization when we meet the law as it really is. We are dead men walking.” (35)
    • “The question is: are you bad enough to come to Christ, because if you don’t think that you are too bad, you won’t come to Christ.” (35)
  • Steps to Christ: “If you see your sinfulness, do not wait to make yourself better. How many there are who think they are not good enough to come to Christ. Do you expect to become better through your own efforts? . . . There is help for us only in God. We must not wait for stronger persuasions, for better opportunities, or for holier tempers. We can do nothing of ourselves. We must come to Christ just as we are.” (31)

“Just as I Am”