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Tharp arr err unanswered nesticne about lesson:
1. Was Pnui tnkinf esfut himnoif?

2. If ro, var he tCIYIhC rout hie ore-Christian experience?
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But Christian expericn ht. that of conflict.
a thorn in the '10 he -eeeenger of Satan to huffet ne.
1 have fought thr e 'ight...
There was evil to ficht.

vs 7:? "What then shall-we cog? That the law is ein? By no MAE?!
Yet. if it had not can for the law. I should not have
known sin. I ehould not-heve known whet it is to covet
i" the 1" had not raid, 'you shell not rovet',

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He gave t'vr the enripturee no the law.
Put the Scriyturee were not enough.

Pen xes e Dherieee, a son of Phariceee--he boosted
Yet the lav of the PhoriSeoe had led him tn "in.

IP, thereforr, the law had?
By no roan?! Ken is bad. HIE rcbollion against the 1: 15 sin,

(no of trr irret conflicts raring in the world today is over the
noturr cf vvil.

Some contend that man is Food, and circumstances reke him evi1.

A chid is born gco, rut hunter. or ilreer, or illitoreoy, or
orvironment, maker hir bad;

So rerrve all these conditione. end men will be rood.

That in the foundo'on, and Jutifitation for, Verxien.
Ivi arises from the unequal diatributibn of wealth.
That's part of the economic interpretation of history.
That's why Communists think they have found tho key to

hietory.
Give everyone food, and no one will vteel.
You don't need God--you :uat need food.
To remove evil. dint! remove its cause, and you dor't
need to worry amount making men F006.
Communists would any to Paul: "remove the thorn. and
Seton cer't buffet you."

But Paul is neyinf that conf1ict is the condition of fighting evii.
I shouid not have known whet it ie to covey, if the law had
not raid 'you sheil not covet."

The low is vood--end conflict comer when ran fiahte biflf to
ohoy ih~ Tow.

Communists think that Utonie can he the product: of men's achieve-
mente.

Christiana think that Utopie--or heaven-- can he the product only
of God's Homer and grace.

Kany "0016 can he claeeee ed"heppy pagans"
They belilve in doing lint comes naturally"
Reetreirt on free expreuion is therefore wrong.
John' Dewey's philosonhy was based on that concept:
'Let children do what they feel like doing'.
If they are not etdyins. don't disciplinc trem--ne:e it
fun to study.
We look 'or reasons why today's youth are so often irreeooneirIe--
it is partly a product or Dewey's trenching.

Paul brings us back to an interpretation of the law in terms of
our religious understanding. '

l. The law expresses aoret ing fundamentally good.
2. But its effect is to bring into the oven the power ofain.
3. This sin is not created by the law--it was always there.

4. But the high standards which are the foundation of the law-
bring a consciousness of ein.

5. That consciousness-that high etandard--oauses the conflict.
6. We can be contented in ignorance of the lew--"hapny pagans"
Why,then, was not Paul before the experience on the road to.
Damascus_a good Christian n. a
He knew the law.
He was zealous in following it.
But still'hb did evil, in the name of the law.
That does net mean that the law was evil
But were knowlcdse of the law--moralism--was not enough.
Jewish rabbi who does not believe in law.
Paul's emphasis had been on what he. man, could achieve,
not on what God could do throvrh him.
Now Jesus has chanced his aenroach to the law
"For the law or theSpirit of life in Christ Jesus has

set me free from the law of sin and death."

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