Believers are United to Christ
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Dead to the Law
Dead to the Law
Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives?
What is Paul referring back to with this question?
For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
The Greek word here is agnoeo, which is where we get our word “agnostic.”
The parenthetical: for I am speaking to those who know the law!
The relationship between the law and sin figures prominently in this chapter.
The law has jurisdiction over a person as long as they are alive.
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The word nomos here refers to the law of Moses.
Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament: Romans Exegesis and Exposition
Paul appeals to a principle that was well known by those familiar with the OT and was articulated in Jewish literature: “that the law rules over a person as long as one lives”
For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.
So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.
This assumes no divorce.
Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament: Romans Exegesis and Exposition
The dominion of the law has been severed, and now believers are married to Christ. The promises given to Israel were not realized during the era of the Mosaic law. Instead, these promises have become a reality in the new era in which the Holy Spirit is dispensed to all.
How did we did to the Law?
Through the body of Christ?
Why did we did to the law?
So that we might be joined to a new husband just like the widow whose husband has passed on.
For what end have we been joined to Christ?
In order that we might bear fruit for God.
“I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
The Westminster Shorter Catechism Question 1
What is the chief end of man?
Man’ s chief end is to glorify God, (1 Cor. 10:31, Rom. 11:36) and to enjoy him for ever. (Ps. 73:25–28)
The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.
For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
“For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God.
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,