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Series:Romans:The Gospel of God
Jonathan McLeod
Romans 7:1-6
We serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code (v. 6).
DON'T DO THAT!
[Read Romans 7:1-6.]
There's a local gas station that has signs posted everywhere saying what you can't do. Signs like that stimulate rebellion within us. People often view the Bible like that-just a list of things we can't do. To those people, God's commands hold no appeal.
But the apostle Paul says that we can go from viewing God's commands as things we must do to viewing them as things we want to do. How does that happen?
RELEASED FROM THE LAW
Paul writes, ''Or do you not know, brothers-for I am speaking to those who know the law-that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?'' (v. 1). The ''law'' is the Mosaic law-the law that was given by God to the people of Israel through Moses at Mount Sinai.
Then Paul presents an analogy in which a married woman is like us (i.e., believers) and her husband is like the law: ''For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage'' (v. 2). And ''if she marries another man she is not an adulteress'' (v. 3).
Paul says, ''Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law'' (v. 4). How did this happen? We died to the law ''through the body of Christ'' (v. 4)-through Christ's death on the cross. We ''now belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead'' (v. 4). ''Now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive'' (v. 6).
What's the big deal about being ''released from the law''?
GOING FROM UNDER LAW TO UNDER GRACE
What Paul is saying here goes back to what he said in 6:14: ''Sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.'' Let's trace the history of how we went from being ''under law'' to being ''under grace.'' The Bible is broken up in ...
Series:Romans:The Gospel of God
Jonathan McLeod
Romans 7:1-6
We serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code (v. 6).
DON'T DO THAT!
[Read Romans 7:1-6.]
There's a local gas station that has signs posted everywhere saying what you can't do. Signs like that stimulate rebellion within us. People often view the Bible like that-just a list of things we can't do. To those people, God's commands hold no appeal.
But the apostle Paul says that we can go from viewing God's commands as things we must do to viewing them as things we want to do. How does that happen?
RELEASED FROM THE LAW
Paul writes, ''Or do you not know, brothers-for I am speaking to those who know the law-that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?'' (v. 1). The ''law'' is the Mosaic law-the law that was given by God to the people of Israel through Moses at Mount Sinai.
Then Paul presents an analogy in which a married woman is like us (i.e., believers) and her husband is like the law: ''For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage'' (v. 2). And ''if she marries another man she is not an adulteress'' (v. 3).
Paul says, ''Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law'' (v. 4). How did this happen? We died to the law ''through the body of Christ'' (v. 4)-through Christ's death on the cross. We ''now belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead'' (v. 4). ''Now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive'' (v. 6).
What's the big deal about being ''released from the law''?
GOING FROM UNDER LAW TO UNDER GRACE
What Paul is saying here goes back to what he said in 6:14: ''Sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.'' Let's trace the history of how we went from being ''under law'' to being ''under grace.'' The Bible is broken up in ...
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