{"id":100,"date":"2025-03-31T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theregularguysbs.kas-m.com\/wp\/?p=100"},"modified":"2025-03-30T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T17:13:07","slug":"romans-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theregularguysbs.kas-m.com\/wp\/2025\/03\/31\/romans-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Romans 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/theregularguysbs.kas-m.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Romans7.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure><p>We dive into Romans 7, exploring Paul&#8217;s powerful message about our relationship to the law and the internal struggle all believers face with sin.<\/p><p>\u2022 Paul uses marriage as a metaphor to explain how believers are released from the law through death with Christ<br>\u2022 The law reveals sin rather than preventing it \u2013 we wouldn&#8217;t know what coveting was without the command not to covet<br>\u2022 Even as Christians, we experience an ongoing battle between our desire to do right and our tendency to do wrong<br>\u2022 Paul&#8217;s candid admission &#8220;what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do&#8221; resonates with every believer&#8217;s experience<br>\u2022 Despite our struggles, there is no condemnation for those in Christ \u2013 we&#8217;re free from the law of sin and death<br>\u2022 Our inability to perfectly keep God&#8217;s law should lead us to grace \u2013 both for ourselves and for others who struggle<br>\u2022 The solution to our moral failures isn&#8217;t trying harder but finding deliverance through Jesus Christ<\/p><p>Join us next week as we continue our study in Romans 8, where Paul develops the theme of life in the Spirit.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We dive into Romans 7, exploring Paul&#8217;s powerful message about our relationship to the law and the internal struggle all believers face with sin. \u2022 Paul uses marriage as a metaphor to explain how believers are released from the law through death with Christ\u2022 The law reveals sin rather than preventing it \u2013 we wouldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-testament","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theregularguysbs.kas-m.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theregularguysbs.kas-m.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theregularguysbs.kas-m.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theregularguysbs.kas-m.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theregularguysbs.kas-m.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theregularguysbs.kas-m.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/theregularguysbs.kas-m.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theregularguysbs.kas-m.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theregularguysbs.kas-m.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theregularguysbs.kas-m.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theregularguysbs.kas-m.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}