The Need to Address Alternative and New Religious Movements

Text: Romans 7:7 "What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet." Acknowledgment  Preface Introduction Outline   I. The Question? Is the Law Sin? (Rom. 7:7)      A.   The importance of the law (v. 7b)       1. Knowledge of sin (Rom. 3:20)       2. The purpose of the law (v. 7b)     B. The law is our schoolmaster       1. To reveal sin (Rom. 7:13)       2. The law cannot save (Rom. 10:1-3, 4) II. The Law: Its Purpose (v. 7a, b)     A. To reveal sin that it might become exceeding sinful.       1. It reveal that of the sinfulness of man's heart.       2. When law revived, all of humanity died in sin.   ...

There are many professing Christians who would consider God's law as sin!  The apostle Paul in Romans 7:7 asked the question, "That the law is sin?" And also his response to his own question, "By no means! The purpose of the God's law was to reveal sin that it might become exceedingly sinful. The law does not saved, but, it reveals to many of us whenever we look into the mirror of God's law. There are people in the world today that despite of what they see in the mirror concerning themselves is that they will repaint the picture so as to distort of the mirror for who they really are. They will also they did not know that what they did was wrong, but, in reality when they saw the stop sign they completely ignore the stop sign by which they did not stop at the stop sign. So the policeman stop the person who ran the stop sign and asked the person the question, "Mam do you know the reason why I stop you?" And the woman replied, "Well perhaps mayb...