NOTES ON ROMANS 7:7-15
FALSE TEACHERS TEACH "NO LAW BUT LOVE"
Have you been exposed to this sort of teaching? That "the Law has been done away in Christ"? What does the New Testament say the purpose of the Law is?
FALSE TEACHERS SAY "IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVE" AND TRY TO HIDE THEMSELVES FROM THE LAW
Why do false teachers try so hard to HIDE from the Law? Take a look at these verses and find out! Many of these teachers (besides not having the Gift of Pastor-Teacher), are NOT EVEN SAVED and are STILL IN THEIR SINS! They also gather to themselves others who are not Saved either and "build" their "so-called church" on unbelievers still in their sins!
REPROBATES IN THEIR "CHURCHES"
The fact is, neither these false teachers nor the teachers that have taught them (who may even go so far as to dare to call themselves "Pastors" or be promoted to such a position) even know or understand what the Bible really says! Especially Romans 7! These ones may actually be reprobates? Read the Notes on Romans 7 and see for yourselves!
TO THE SCRIPTURE
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. Psalm 119:142
Transcribed directly from the Geneva Bible (1599 Edition).[1]
With Footnote Additions
v. 7: What shall we say then? Is the Law of God sin? God forbid! Nay, I knew not sin, but by the Law: for I had not known lust, except the Law said, "Thou shalt not lust."
NOTES: "An objection: what then? Are the Law[2] and sin all one, and do they agree together? Nay, says he: sin is reproved and condemned by the Law. But because sin cannot abide to be reproved, and was not in a manner felt until it was provoked and stirred up by the Law, it takes occasion thereby to be more outrageous, and yet by no fault of the Law.
"By the word "lust" in this place, he means not evil lusts themselves, but the fountain from which they spring: for the very heathen philosophers themselves condemned wicked lusts, though somewhat darkly, but as for this fountain of them; they could not so much as suspect it, and yet it is the very seat of that natural and unclean spot and filth. Exodus 20:17, Deuteronomy 5:21."
v. 8: For sin took occasion by the Commandment, and wrought in me all manner of concupiscence: for without the Law, sin is dead.
NOTES: "Though sin be in us, yet it is not known for sin, neither does it so rage, as it rages after that the Law is known."
v. 9: For once I was alive, without the Law: but when the Commandment came, sin revived.
NOTES: "He sets himself before us an example, in whom all men may behold, first what they are of nature before they earnestly think upon the Law of God: to wit, blockish, and heady to sin and wickedness, without true sense and feeling of sin, then what manner of persons they become, when their conscience is reproved by the testimony of the Law, to wit, stubborn, and more enflamed with the desire of sin, then ever they were before, (That is, when he began to understand the Commandments.)[3]
"When I knew not the Law, then I thought I lived indeed: for my conscience never troubled me, because it knew not my disease."[4]
v. 10: But I died: and the same Commandment which was ordained to life, was found to be unto me death.
NOTES: "He died in sin or by sin.[5]
v. 11: For sin took occasion by the Commandment, and deceived me, and thereby slew me.[6]
v. 12: Wherefore the Law is holy, and that Commandment holy, and just and good.
NOTES: "The conclusion: That the Law itself is holy, but all the fault is in us which abuse the Law. (I Timothy 1:8)."
v. 13: Was that then which was good, made death unto me? God forbid: but sin, that it might appear sin, wrought death in me by that which is good, that sin might be out of measure sinful by the Commandment.[7]
NOTES: "The proposition: That the Law is not the cause of death, but our corrupt nature. Being therewith not only discovered, but also stirred up, and took occasion thereby to rebel, as which, the more things are forbidden, the more it desires them, and from hence comes guiltiness, and occasion of death. (That sin might show itself to be sin, and to betray itself to be that, which it is indeed. Being as evil as it could, showing all the venom it could.)"
v. 14: For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
NOTES: "The cause of the matter is this: because that the Law requires a heavenly pureness, but men such as they be born, are bondslaves of corruption, which they willingly serve."[8]
v. 15: For I allow not that which I do: for what I would, that do I not: but what I hate, that I do.
NOTES: "He sets himself, being regenerate, before us, for an example, in whom easily appear the the strife of the Spirit and the flesh, and therefore the Law of God, and our wickedness. For since that Law in a man who is not regenerate brings forth death only, therefore in him, it may be easily accused: but seeing that in a man which is regenerate, it brings forth good fruit, it does better appear that evil actions appear not from the Law, but from sin, that is, from our corrupt nature: and therefore the Apostle teaches also, what the true use of the Law is, in reproving sin in the regenerate, unto the end of the chapter, as a little before, (to wit, from the 7th verse to the 15th) he declares the use of it in them which are not regenerate.[9]
"The deeds of my life answer not: nay they are contrary to my will: Therefore with consent of my will with the Law, and repugnancy with the deeds of my life, it appears evident, that the Law and a right-ruled will do persuade one thing, but corruption, which has her seat also in the regenerate, another thing.
"It is to be noted, that one self same man is said to will and not to will, in diverse respects: to wit he is said to will, in that, that he is regenerate by grace: and not to will, in that, that he is not regenerate, or in that he is such a one as he was born.
"But because the part that is regenerate, at length becomes the conqueror, therefore Paul, sustaining the part of the regenerate, speaketh in such a way as if the corruption which sins willingly, was something apart from a man: although afterward he grants that this evil is in his flesh or in his members."
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FOOTNOTES
[1]The Geneva Bible (1560-1602) was the Bible of the Pilgrims who came to America. It had contained within it the Notes of the Reformation. King James I had the Geneva Bible banned in all English Churches.
[2]"The Law" or the Hebrew Torah: the first five books of Moses: Genesis to Deuteronomy. "The Law" means the Moral Law and no longer includes animal sacrifices or circumcison of Gentiles after their Salvation.
The Gentiles are not now nor have they ever been under the whole Law.
[3]In short, the person becomes exceedingly more desirous that the Law be suppressed because the Law does upset his flesh which has tried to hide from the Light, and exposes all his hypocrisy so well.
[4]His own conscience was so deceived by the inner sinful nature, that it knew not that it was entwined in sin. The Law did reveal and expose his hidden sin and thereby made it even more sinful, that he might recognize its presence and be convicted. Isaiah 64:6, Jeremiah 17:9.
[5]His false hopes of dependence on the flesh died, reliance on his former hypocrisy as an answer was shown to be utter foolishness and vanity, and the Elect one is driven by the Law thereby to call upon God for Mercy.
[6]Which is the true purpose of the Law, as it refines to admit no hypocrites.
[7]Made more sinful.
[8]The very thing which man desires with all his sinful heart not to hear, is that very Law which he most must hear, as it exposes his true inner wickedness and removes all fleshly confidence, which begins all True Repentance.
[9]The Law divides the flesh from the Spirit making each recognizable.
