Its been a few weeks, so I will remind you that we have moved from the Courthouse (Chapters 1-5) to the Power Plant (Chapters 6-8). In these chapters, Paul the Apostle gives perspective-changing truths about how life and sin and “law”. These chapters are especially important if your experience as a Christian has left you feeling like a failure, alone, and “unfruitful”. It may be due to the fact that, for many Christians, their whole Christian experience is about following rules and abstaining from the things that they shouldn’t be doing and being inconsistent and hiding behind spiritual language and rituals. Is that unfair to say?

Chapter 7 is all about the law. Verses 1-6 actually follow up from Ch 6:15​, with another “Don’t you know…”. Paul now calls on marriage as an illustration to prove his next point. But to whet your whistle, I will ask you if you have ever seen how powerful love can be. I have seen people quit smoking, change hobbies, stay up all hours of the night, and do other crazy things for love… or for the one they love and want to please.