Romans: Exposition of Chapter 7.1-8.4: The Law: Its Functions and Limits by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Author:D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones [Lloyd-Jones, D. Martyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Religion, Biblical Studies, New Testament, Christianity, Catholic, Romans
ISBN: 9780310279105
Amazon: B0007AFX7S
Barnesnoble: B0007AFX7S
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 1974-02-14T22:00:00+00:00

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For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.

For that which I do I allow not; for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. Romans 7: 14, 15

As we proceed with this difficult, much-discussed and controversial section of this 7th chapter of this Epistle we must gird up the loins of our minds, and make a real effort to understand. We must not give up because the subject matter is difficult. You will then find happening to you what is the almost universal experience of all raw students. When students first begin to listen to lectures on a subject they often feel on the first few occasions not only that they know nothing at all of what is being said, but that probably they will never be able to understand. There is only one thing to do at that point, and that is to go on listening. If you go on listening you will begin to find that more than you had ever realized is sinking and seeping in, and you will wake up one day and say, ‘Ah, I now see what it is about, I am beginning to understand’. Do not be impatient with yourself when you are studying a difficult passage in Scripture; keep on, hold on, reading or listening; and suddenly you will find that not only do you know much more than you thought you knew, but you will be able to follow and to understand. It is necessary that one should say things like that from time to time, because the devil is ever at hand to say to us, ‘This or that is of no use to you, you cannot follow it, leave it to the theologians’. Do not listen to him, but say ‘I belong to the Christian family and I intend to listen and to read until I do understand it’. Do that, and you will not only defeat the enemy, but you will soon find that you have an understanding.

As we have already seen, the Apostle starts with a general proposition: ‘We know that the law is spiritual.’ Well, then, if the

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