BIBLICAL BASIS: Understanding the Sinful Nature

PRINTED TEXT: Romans 7:4-6, 13-25

BACKGROUND SCRIPTURES: Romans 8:6-8; I Corinthians 2:14--3:4; Ephesians 4:21-24; 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13

DEVOTIONAL READING: Galatians 5:16-24

KEY VERSE: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2).

CENTRAL TRUTH: We can find deliverance from sin only in Christ.

OBJECTIVE: By the end of this lesson my students should be able to identify some characteristics of the sinful nature and explain how we can be freed from it.

LESSON OUTLINE:

I. Dead to the Law (Romans 7:4-6)
II. Life Under the Law (Romans 7:13-20)
III. An Evil Inner Law (Romans 7:21-23)
IV. The Answer in Christ (Romans 7:24, 25)