One man with dual personalities
that takeover without warning.
(Dr. Jekyll)
The dominant personality is a mean angry man.
The other (Dr. Hyde) is a Gentle and kind person.
Is it possible to kill Dr. Jekyll
and allow Mr. Hyde to live?
Paul the Apostle (Acts 9:1-20)
Page 777 in Pew Bible
Paul was a Believer (Acts 9:1-6
Paul was baptized and filled with the Holy
Spirit (Acts 9: 17-18)
Paul was a Christian preacher (Acts 9:20)
He wrote this letter to the church at Rome
Paul was on his third missionary Journey to
the Gentiles Rom 1:7; 15:25-26
Stand for the Reading of our text
Romans 7-8 (Pew Bible page
800)
Romans 7 1-6;
Rom 7: 14-19;
Rom 7: 21-25
Paul makes 6 Spiritual Confessions
 1.He admits that the rules of the OT Law is
the perfect mind and nature of God (v14a)
 2. I am a saved sinner (v 14b-17)
 3. Apart from God, I have no goodness in
me v18
 4. Both good and evil are fighting for my
alliance, and evil is winning. (v21-23)
 5. I am a miserable Hypocrite(v24)
 6. Jesus died to deliver me from sin’s
power\v25
Lessons Learned Through
Failure
1. Man must die to his sin nature in order
To live through Christ (v 6)
2. The Law is absolute and holy, Failure
reveals the depth of our sin (v13-14)
3. Man can not be good enough to live
the Christian life (v 18-19)
4. Jesus has delivered us at calvary (v25)
Two things that can solve our
hypocrisy Problem
Knowing The Word of God (Psalm
119:11) will keep you from sin.
Ignorance of the word will keep you in
sin.
Being filled with The Power of the
Holy Spirit (v11-12) Believers are
commanded to be filled with the
spirit continually.
The Holy Spirit provides the Power
Romans 8: 1-17
 Those who walk in the Spirit are not condemned. (v1-
4)
 Unbelievers are under condemnation(v6-8)
 The Holy Spirit Lives in all believers(v11)
 Believers are not condemned, Jesus paid our sin debt.
We have the right to be call the sons of God. We have
the righteousness of Christ imputed to us by God(
v8:1;14-17)
3 reasons why believers live
hypocritical lives
 1. They refuse to give up anything they
know is a sin. Secret sins: The Holy
Spirit is convicting them, but they refuse
to repent (Rom 6: 1-23)
 They grieve the Holy Spirit by harboring
anger in their heart
 They quench the Holy Spirit by living in
fear
They Grieve the Holy Spirit
 Anger Grieves the Holy Spirit
 God has reserved Wrath for him self.
 Vengeance is Mine Sayth the Lord:
 It is dangerous to assume role of Judge and Jury
and executioner.
 The word anger is used over and over in the OT,
Most every time it is describing God’s Anger
Do not let the sun go down on your
anger
 Eccles 7:9 Do not be quickly provoked in your
spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.
 Psalm 37:8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do
not fret—it leads only to evil.
 Col 3:8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such
things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy
language from your lips.
 James 1:20 human anger does not produce the
righteousness that God desires.
Worry Grieves the Holy Spirit

Matt
5: 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life
 28 “And why do you worry 31 So do not worry,’32 For the pagans
run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that
you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his
righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow Each day has
enough trouble of its own.
 Learn to live one day at the time and allow the Lord to
handle all your worries about tomorrow.
Fear is the same as Worry
7
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For God hath not given us
the spirit of fear; but of
power, and of love, and of a
sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7

Commands for the Christians
First: Stop feeding the flesh. .
 Decide once and for all you are
going to be selective in what
you allow into your mind

Stop Fighting with God
 Second:
Surrender your will to God. That
is the secret of the Christian life. It is time
to Draw a line in the sand. Joshua 24:15
 Choose for yourselves this day whom you
will serve,”
 Decide today that you will Let The holy
spirit rule, allow him to have first place in
all things
Principles for the Spirit filled life.
Three: Focus on
what God desires
of you.
 .
Phil 3:13-14
1. God desires that
you stop looking
back and start
looking forward.
Matthew 22:37
God desires for you
to love him More
than anything else
God wants you to know him
 God wants you to know him, as a son knows his father.
He desires that you spend time with him
 Your bible is the doorway into his presence
 God rules all creation, He is worthy of worship
God desires Disciples who make disciples .
Great Commission Matt 28: 19-20
 Every believer is to beome a disciple who makes disciples
 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,
 baptizing them in the name of the Father. the Son and of
the Holy Spirit,
and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you.
5. God desires that you be a part of
the local church FOR:
 fellowship with the Family of God
 Training to be a disciple maker
 Learn how to be a good steward
 Get involved in local and foreign missions
 To work together to evangelize the
community and the world

Prepare for a spiritual
fight daily
We are in a spiritual war
The belt of truth
breastplate of righteousness
Feet fitted with the Gospel of peace
The shield of faith the helmet of
salvation
The sword of the Spirit (word of God )
Praying in the Spirit
.God desires that you be transformed
into the image of Christ.
Rom12: 2 Do not
conform to the pattern of
this world, but be
transformed by the
renewing of your mind.
So others will see Jesus in you
7 Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to
those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone
only as long as that person lives? 2 For example, by law a married
woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her
husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to
3
him. So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while
her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her
husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress
if she marries another man.
4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the
body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was
raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for
God. 5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful
passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore
fruit for death. 6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have
been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the
Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
Romans 7: 1-6 (Page 800 in Pew Bible)
Romans 7: 14-23
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14 We
know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as
a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to
do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not
want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I
myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that
good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For
I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it
out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not
want to do—this I keep on doing.20 Now if I do what I do not
want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me
that does it.
• 21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is
right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s
law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against
the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of
sin at work within me 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will
rescue me from this body that is subject to death?25 Thanks be to
God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
• So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my
sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
Life Through the Spirit
Romans 8: 1f
 8 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ
Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you
free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it
was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful
flesh to be a sin offering.[ And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the
righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according
to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
 5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh
desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what
the Spirit desires.6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by
the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does
not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the
flesh cannot please God.
 9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if
indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of
Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, then even though your
body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of
righteousness. 11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in
you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal
bodies because o f his Spirit who lives in you.
8: 12-17
12 Therefore,
• Romans
brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—
but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13 For if you
live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit
you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
• 14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the
children of God. 15 The Spirit you received does not make
you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit
you received brought about your adoption to son ship. And
by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit himself testifies
with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17 Now if we are
children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with
Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we
may also share in his glory.

28 And
we know that in all things God works for the
good of those who love him, who[i] have been
called according to his purpose. 29 For those God
foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the
image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among
many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he
predestined, he also called; those he called, he also
justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
This world is not our home

Rom 8: 38 For
I am convinced that neither death, nor life,
nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to
come, nor powers,
 39 nor anything above, nor anything below, nor
anything else in all creation can separate us from the
love of God that is ours in union with the Messiah
Jesus, our Lord
 We have no reason to worry about anything
Worry quenches the Holy Spirit
Matthew 6: (v31) Page 685 In Pew Bible
 Do Not Worry
 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will
eat or
 drink; or about your body, what you will wear---------7 Can any one of
you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?
 28 “And why do you worry about clothes?----—you of little
faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall
we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’32 For the pagans run after all
these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need
them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all
these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not
worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each