When you study just chapter 6 of Romans, you might get the idea that when you trust in Christ, you die to sin, you're set free from sin, you now live a life of righteousness and godliness. But as a believer that just is not our experience. There is a battle and a struggle with sin that goes on. It seems that sin wants to assert its control in my life. I struggle and I battle but there are times when it doesn't seem to be getting any better. I seem to be living under a terrible weight and burden of sin in my life that just doesn't fit with what Paul says in chapter 6. You must understand that he's not done with the subject in chapter 6. In chapter 7 he'll unfold the tremendous tension that continues to exist in the life of the child of God as he faces an ongoing daily battle with the matter of sin. He's talking about the law and our relationship with the law in chapter 7. That becomes the framework in which he discusses the issue of the believer's struggle with sin.
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In the fall of 1969, Gil began a full-time teaching ministry as Senior Pastor of Indian Hills Community Church. He also earned his Ph.D. from the California Graduate School of Theology. The focus of Pastor Rugh’s ministry is systematic, verse-by-verse teaching of the Bible. As a...
