Biblical eLearning (http://biblicalelearning.org) presents: Dr. Craig Keener on Romans
This is the eighth of 18 lectures Dr. Craig Keener of Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky has done on the book of Romans.
Be sure to check out his commentary: Romans: A New Covenant Commentary published by Wipf and Stock. This video was produced by Ted Hildebrandt from biblicalelearning.org.
Timed Outline:
00:25 Romans 7 Introduction
0:55 Connection of "flesh" and body
2:50 But body can be used for good (12.1) or bad (6.13)
5:20 6:25 Even "flesh" not always negative
6:25 Flesh vs. Spirit (Rom 8.4-9)
11:25 Freed from Law (7.1-6)
14:20 Romans 7.5-6
17:20 Letter vs. Spirit – against the old covenant?
20:25 Is the law sin? (7.7)
22:30 Some deliberately provocative statements
26:15 Life under law
28:05 Romans 7.14-25 depicts life under law
30:05 Paul's present or past? Or neither
31:00 Use of present tense?
35:10 Rom 7.14-25 depicts life under law
36:20 Contrasts: Romans 7.7-25 Believers in contrast
38:05 Function of 7.15-25 in Romans
39:30 Passions vs. Reason
43:25 Didn't work
49:30 Mind unable to control sin, Law draws attention to sin
50:00 Prisoner of war = slave
51:10 "Thanks be to God" (7.25a)
52:10 The Life of the Spirit (Romans 8), No condemnation in Christ (8.1)
53:35 Romans 8.3-4
54:40 Romans 8.5-7 mind of Spirit/mind of flesh
55:50 1. The fleshly mind recall 7.23-25
58:35 C. Fleshly mind unable to fulfill God's law