An overview for teachers and group members, of Lifeway’s Explore the Bible lesson of Romans 7, for October 11, 2026. Includes a suggested introduction to the lesson, text outline and highlights, illustrations to share, group discussion questions, and spiritual life applications. There is a print button at the end of this article so that you can print it out to read/study/teach from. A video version of this overview is available on YouTube at:
INTRODUCTION:
??? DISCUSSION QUESTION???
“What is a recurring problem in your home/yard that you have to keep fighting to stay on top of?”
(There’s a lot of things, right?
— If you’re a gardener, you’re always fighting weeds. You can clear them out, but they’ll be back! You have to keep at it.
— We had an ant problem a couple of years ago, so now I keep three different kinds of pellets and traps and treatments out for them.
— Right now in our house it’s gnats: I think they got in some of our plants, so again we’ve got a multi-faceted approach, with soapy water, and stuff in our drains, and then we got some of those lights with sticky traps. I think we’ve turned the corner on them, but we can’t let up!
We all have things like this, that have to keep fighting in our homes and gardens. There’s always something to address, take care of.
In our spiritual lives, it’s that way with sin, too, isn’t it? Has anyone here so completely conquered sin in your life, that you don’t have to worry about it anymore? None of us are there, are we?
And scripture tells us that’s common: I John 1:8 says “If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” If we’re honest, we ALL struggle with sin, no matter how long we’ve been a Christian. And sadly we will continue to struggle against sin as long as we live. But as we shall see in our lesson today, the fact that we are struggling is good — and one day we will be totally free from any taint of sin, because of what Christ did for us.
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