“Do you not know, brothers- for I am
speaking to men who know the law- that the law has authority over a man as long
as he lives? 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 form the law of
marriage. So then, if she marries 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, even though she marries another man.”
Romans
7:1-3
“So, my brothers, 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 to God.”
Romans
7:4
In many
marital relationships, a product of that relationship is children. Likewise, when
we were married to sin we bore fruit for death:
“For when we were controlled by the sinful
nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so
that we bore fruit for death.”
Romans
7:5
Now that we
are married to Christ we are to bear fruit to God!
“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 the old way of the written code.”
Romans
7:6
If we, being
married to Christ then return to the sinful nature and participate in acts of
immorality (bearing fruit for death) we commit “spiritual adultery!” Because of
this danger, we must be conscious of sin! Paul maintains in Romans 7 that this
is why the Law was given. The Law was not given to save us or condemn us! The Law
came to awaken us to our sinfulness!
Pastor Scott
Burr
http://faithandworshipseries.blogspot.com/
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