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Sermon Text:
Romans 8:1-2 (NIV2011)
1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

The Law of Sin and Death

“Sin”
“Hamartia” = “to miss the mark”

“Sin”
“Hamartia” = “to miss the mark”
Infers a standard of right and wrong

1 John 3:4 (NIV2011)
4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.

FIRST:
Romans 6:23 (NIV2011)
23 For the wages of sin is death…

Sin leads to death

Sin leads to death
In the temporal

Sin leads to death
In the temporal
In eternity

2 Thessalonians 1:8-9 (NIV2011)
8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might…

SECOND:
Romans 3:23 (NIV2011)
…all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…

Sin is universal

Romans 7:18-20 (NIV2011)
…I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

THIRD:
Sin has a solution

Romans 8:1-4 (NIV2011)
1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Sin has a solution
Jesus became our sin offering

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV2011)
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Sin has a solution
Jesus became our sin offering
Jesus became our righteousness

Romans 10:9-10 (NIV2011)
9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.