The aim of your sermon is to help God’s people understand that the Spirit of God is at work to sanctify them and that his work takes time/is connected with the preaching of the Gospel. Before coming to this application, you will need to explain Paul’s argument and why it was necessary. Give attention to the two different ways in which people approach God and their different outcomes. It will also be a good idea to comment on why law is so attractive to us and to affirm once again that old covenant law has been fulfilled by Christ and thus come to an end.
21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?