I would firstly like to say that from being blessed by reading your comments I believe you to be a Christian who has undoubtedly helped and encouraged a great many people in your life
As you preach I will explain why I asked this question. Can you tell me if the following verses are regularly preached in church today?
Rom7:5-11 5For when we were controlled by the sinful nature,[a] the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death. 6But 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.
Struggling With Sin
7What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not covet."[b] 8But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead. 9Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
11For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.
Gal3:23-25 23Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. 24So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ[h] that we might be justified by faith. 25Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law.
Rom3:20 20Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.
Gal3:19 19What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was put into effect through angels by a mediator.
Rom10:4 4Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
Rom5:18 18Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men.
Rom4:6 6David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
Rom3:28 28For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law.
Rom3:31 31Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.
Rom4:14&15 14For if those who live by law are heirs, faith has no value and the promise is worthless, 15because law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression.
Gal3:10&11 10All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law."[c] 11Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith."
Rom5:20 10All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law."[c] 11Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith."
Rom6:14 14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
and Rom6:15&16 I do believe in balance 15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Rom9:30-32 30What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; 31but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. 32Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the "stumbling stone."
1Cor15:56 56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law
I could add a lot more to that, but for now I won't. The reason I ask this is because those verses along with many others are the key to a new Christian being victorious over sin in their life So they are most important for the new believer to understand. Now in England I have never heard any of them preached on, and expounded.
I must be honest, this is the heart of the message the Apostle Paul was led to preach of grace. If these verses are seldom preached, why is this?
I had to read the Bible for myself before I knew of such verses as these because the born again church I went to never preached on them. Are these vital truths regularly preached? Or is it the same as it was then?
I probably should add, that trying to obey law is the same as trying to be 'good enough'