Romans Chapter 7
IN THIS LESSON
Do you have anything you used to enjoy in your old Adamic self but don’t anymore? How did that change happen? There is a tendency in all of us to revert to our old selves and old habits, just like Ellis, played by Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption, who, after being released from prison, asks his boss at a local retail store, “Bathroom break?” What are your old habits that keep you from enjoying the true freedom Christ has given you?
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N. T. Wright, Romans for Everyone (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2023), 86-89.