The Secret Of Romans 7 Part 8

INTRO: It is a while since we were in Romans 7. In verses 1-3 Paul shows that through sin, man is married to the flesh. This is another way of speaking of the sin nature. Then he showed that through Christ, the flesh dies and we are married to Christ. As long as we were in the flesh, the law held us captive and the passions of sins worked in us by the law. But now, according to verse 6, we have been delivered from the law. The purpose of all this is so that we might serve in newness of Spirit.
But the new Christian goes through a very difficult experience in learning to live entirely by faith. This difficult experience, we have likened to Israel's wanderings in the wilderness. For the new Christian too, it is a wilderness experience. And now, in Romans 7 verse 7 we have entered, in my view, the wilderness experience of the new Christian. In the last message we began to look at that verse. It says:
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."