This week’s sermon from Adam Birr, titled “The Rescuer.” Drawing from Romans 7:1–25, the sermon will reflect on how, through Christ, believers are set free from the law and bound instead to him. Using the picture of marriage, this passage shows the freedom we now have in Jesus, while also speaking honestly about the inward struggle against sin that every person faces. In the middle of that struggle, the good news remains the same: our rescue is found in Christ alone.
Our service will include worship songs led by Andy Gould and Shona Tootill, a welcome and prayer shared by Chris C, and a communion message from Joseph Birr as together we come to the foot of the cross and remember Christ.
Join us on Sunday 26th July 2026 at 10:30 am for our Sunday Service with the Glasgow Church of Christ. Whether you are part of the church family, visiting for the first time, or joining us online, you are very welcome to be with us.
This message also sits within our 2026 theme, “Walking Each Other Home.” Throughout this year we are considering how we can support, strengthen, and encourage one another as we walk with God through the joys and challenges of life. Together, through our Saviour Jesus and guided by the Holy Spirit, we keep pressing on toward the hope of eternal life with God. As a Church, we want to keep asking how we can help each other on that journey.
Everyone is warmly welcome to join us, whether in person or online, as we come together to worship God, encourage one another, and grow in faith.
Order of Worship
- Worship Songs: Andy Gould & Shona Tootill
- Welcome & Prayer: Chris C
- Communion Message: Joseph Birr
- Sermon: “The Rescuer” by Adam Birr
- Fellowship with tea and coffee until 12:30 PM
Fellowship & Refreshments
We’re delighted to welcome you to our service on Sunday, 26th July 2026 at 10:30 am, whether you’re joining us in person at the Clyde Community Centre or connecting with us online.
After the service, there will be time to stay for tea, coffee, and fellowship until 12:30 pm. We would love for you to join us, whether in person or online.
What to Expect:
- Engaging worship music
- Biblical teaching that applies to daily life
- Warm, welcoming community
- Meaningful communion celebration
- Refreshments and fellowship
Message Summary & Reflection
Coming soon…
Scriptures To Be Shared In This Message:
Romans 7:1-25 – Released From the Law, Bound to Christ
1 Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? 2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. 3 So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. 6 But 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.
The Law and Sin
7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
