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This Ain't Who I Want To Be

Sunday, June 28, 20269am
📖 ROM.7.18-ROM.7.25
Romans 7 names the painful conflict between what we desire to do and the sin that still pulls against us. Our struggle is real, but it is not our final identity or our only future. We find our answer in Jesus Christ and learn from 2 Corinthians 12 that grace is sufficient in weakness. We can confess the struggle honestly while trusting God’s power to keep transforming us.
Key Points
1.
The trouble is not the law or the rules.
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The answer to struggling with sin is Jesus Christ.
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Read Romans 8:1 as part of the continuing thought.

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Sermon Summary

Romans 7 names the painful conflict between what we desire to do and the sin that still pulls against us. Our struggle is real, but it is not our final identity or our only future.

We find our answer in Jesus Christ and learn from 2 Corinthians 12 that grace is sufficient in weakness. We can confess the struggle honestly while trusting God’s power to keep transforming us.

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