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• setting limits less important than making Jesus
the centre
• selfish tendency to push the limits
• “sold as a slave” / “nothing good” vs. present
tense, humility, context
• even mature Christians fall short of God’s
righteous standard
• commandment good, holy, righteous: helps
identify danger
• Only Jesus kept law perfectly; others - sin finds
opportunity
• no one justified by observing the law
• good intentions not matched by deeds
• sin living in me: evil “right there” with me
• inner war: flesh serves as base camp from which sin
operates
• Jesus paid price to redeem us / buy us back:
belong to Him
• released from law, now under new authority
• new ownership, purpose: bear fruit for God, in
Spirit’s newness
• die to old passions, delight in God’s goals instead
• experience of grace affected one born to
bourgeois lifestyle
• Marguerite Bourgeoys opened Montreal’s first school
in 1658
• desired most deeply / most ardently wish: hearts
love God and neighbour