We, at BTPC, are committed to love God and to glorify our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit by building one another up in God’s word, serving one another in love and, being united in praying and proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ; working together for the salvation of souls and the edification of Christians through the teaching of God’s word and the preaching of the gospel.

Saved Together In Christ

⁹ Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. ¹⁰ For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost." - Luke 19:9-10

Opening Prayer (Ashley Tan)

Song: (1st svc - Family Service) Boss of the Cross / (2nd svc) There is one Gospel

Welcoming Time

Song: (2nd svc) Grace Awaiting Me

Confession & Corporate Prayer

Life in Christ Sharing (Carran)

Song (1st svc): Grace Awaiting Me / (2nd svc): Our Only Hope is You

Scripture Reading: Romans 7:7-25 (1st svc: Dorothy Chia-Chua / 2nd svc: Angie Maniam-Ng)

Sermon: Keep struggling against sin in Christian Living because deliverance is guaranteed in Jesus (Pastor Andrew Ong)

Discussion/Reflection Time

Song: And Can It Be

Financial Giving & Offering

Announcements

Closing Prayer & Benediction

Romans 7:7-25 (NIV - New International Version)

7:7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”[a] 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.

13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[b] For 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.

21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature[c] a slave to the law of sin.

Footnotes

a. Romans 7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21

b. Romans 7:18 Or my flesh

c. Romans 7:25 Or in the flesh

Romans 7:7-25

Keep struggling against sin in Christian Living because deliverance is guaranteed in Jesus

Introduction

Context

Sin is so bad that it uses the good law to kill us!

The struggle with sin continues even though we are now saved in Christ!

Victory is guaranteed so keep struggling against sin

Conclusion

1. How has today's passage instructed me in my Christian living? What attitudes or actions do I need to change?

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