Who Are You Married To?
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Introduction
Introduction
In we learned that believers are dead to sin. What is the implication of this in a believer’s life? To appreciate this truth Paul describes our former life.
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
To be dead to sin means we no longer need to be controlled by our sin nature.
To be dead in our trespasses means to be spiritually dead. To be spiritually dead means we are condemned to perish eternally and there is nothing we can do about it. On our own we are hopeless but with Christ we have hope. There is light at the end of the tunnel, He is that Light. He gave us new life through Jesus Christ, the Savior.
But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed,
When we became obedient by trusting and believing in His saving work on the cross we became dead to sin, as oppose to being dead in our sins. Which means sin has no more dominion over us. Paul further explains here in Chapter 7 a believer’s relationship with God’s Law.
In Paul ask the question “Shall we continue in sin?” Is freedom from the Law means freedom to sin? Read his follow up question in “Shall we continue in sin because we are not under the Law?” Let’s read Paul’s answer in . Paul further explains here in a believer’s relationship with God’s Law.
explains that believers are dead to sin because they are identified with Christ in His death and resurrection. It answers the question, “Shall we continue in sin?” (6:1). But note that Paul asks a second question in 6:15: “Shall we continue in sin because we are not under the Law?” He answers this question in chapter 7 and explains that believers are dead to the Law just as they are dead to sin (7:4).
1. Being Married to The Law
1. Being Married to The Law
1. When is man subject to the law?
1. When is man subject to the law?
The jurisdiction of the law to the non-believer. Dead from our transgressions.
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?
Paul uses the metaphor of marriage to illustrate man’s relationship to the Law.
When Paul speaks of “the Law” he means not only the law of Moses but any kind of legislation that the believer uses to try to avoid sin or attain holiness.
In this illustration the husbands are “The Law” and “Jesus Christ.”
when Paul speaks of “the Law” he means not only the p 385 law of Moses but any kind of legislation that the believer uses to try to curb sin or attain holiness.) The two husbands are the Law and the Lord Jesus Christ
The wife is man.
When a woman marries a man she becomes bound to him until he dies. In the event the husband dies, she is released from that relationship/marriage covenant and is free to start a new one with another man.
Today, couples don’t need to wait for death, there is divorce. Divorce is a legal dissolution through the courts. In the Philippines there is no divorce but there is annulment of a marriage.
An annulment is a legal procedure which cancels a marriage. Annulling a marriage is as though it is completely erased, legally, and it declares that the marriage never technically existed and was never valid.
One thing common between the two terms, they end a marriage relationship legally. Freeing each other to mess up again. (LOL)
Where is the Law now, where is Jesus now? The truth is, the Law never died, so is Christ, He rose from the grave.
For the Law to be alive means its purpose still holds today, it continues to convict man of sin therefore he is guilty of sin. It continues to awareness to sin.
Marriage is active when both husband and wife are alive.
Marriage is exclusive.
When we were married to the Law we were subject to a system of regulations which describes what God’s righteousness is like.
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
In a similar way, in as much as the wife is to be subject to the Husband, we too are to be subject to the Law
They say if love is blind, marriage is the great eye opener. The law opened our eyes to what is sin and that we are sinners.
We were born married to the law and it continually condemns man until he frees himself from its dominion.
What are the sinful acts: 10 Commandments
It is sin to have other gods and worship them.
It is a sin to create idols presenting the other god’s your not suppose to pray, venerate and worship.
It was a sin to worship another god other than the God of the bible.
It is a sin to misuse the name of God.
It is a sin to neglect time with God - Keeping the Sabbath.
It is a sin to not honor our parents.
It is a sin to murder.
It is a sin to commit adultery.
It is a sin to steal.
It is a sin to lie.
It is a sin to covet other people’s property if members of their family.
Today wives struggle in letting themselves be subject to their husbands because of their imperfections but man struggles himself as he is subjected to the Law because he imperfect and the law is perfect.
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Perfection is beyond our league but with God offering His grace, He gave us a way to be perfect and acceptable to Him, not through our works or accomplishments but through a perfect sacrifice - Jesus Christ. He satisfied and fulfilled the requirements of the Law and His perfection does not expire, no need to renewal, no need of dying again to pay for our sin.
What was impossible for man, He made possible.
Technically you can say that God did it all, once and for all that’s why all glory goes to Him.
All we have to do is accept, accepting is like believing.
“Once and for all” implies that genuine conversion need only happen once. Which means no need of accepting Him again and again.
BY saying YES to Christ FREE GIFT of salvation means dying(not from) but to sin, it’s maritally divorcing yourself from it dominion over your life.
What do we have to do in order to be married to the Law? Being born here on Earth.
What does it take to be married to Christ? By being born again, not physical but spiritual.
Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.
How to be born again?
that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
2. Being Married to Christ?
2. Being Married to Christ?
2. Being Married to Christ?
2. Being Married to Christ?
The jurisdiction of Christ to the believer. Dead to sin but alive in Christ.
The believer’s death in Christ is a vicarious death: he does not literally die himself, but he participates in the death of Christ—spiritually.
When a man believes in Christ’s death and resurrection, God takes that man’s belief and considers him as having died in Christ - it was like being there when He died on the cross and rising again in future just as He rose from the dead. Thus the picture of BAPTISM.
The believer’s death in Christ is a vicarious death: he does not literally die himself, but he participates in the death of Christ—spiritually. When a man believes in Christ’s death, God takes that man’s belief and counts him as having died in Christ. That is, God counts the death of Christ for the death of the believer; God considers the believer to have been in Christ when Christ died. Why does God do this? Because Christ died in man’s behalf, in man’s stead, taking the penalty and punishment of the law upon Himself. Therefore, the believer—being dead in Christ—is freed from the law, from its demands and guilt and punishment.
When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,
What are the implication of our marriage with Christ?
Here are the implications:
God counts the death of Christ for the death of the believer.
God considers the believer to have been in Christ when Christ died. Why does God do this?
Because Christ died in man’s behalf, in man’s stead, taking the penalty and punishment of the law upon Himself.
Therefore, the believer—being dead in Christ or “Married to
Christ”—is freed from the law, from its demands and guilt and punishment. (1)
Christ died on the cross to redeem us from the Law…which was a curse to us believers. (2)
For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to perform them.”
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—
Christ died on the cross where He spilled His blood necessary for the forgiveness of sins.
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
Christ death was a physical death.
yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach—
3. What does the law do to man while in subjection to it?
3. What does the law do to man while in subjection to it?
When we became obedient by trusting and believing in His saving work on the cross we became dead to sin, as oppose to being dead in our sins. Which means sin has no more dominion over us.
subjection to it?
subjection to it?
3. What does being released from the law do to man?
3. What does being released from the law do to man?
3. What does being released from the law do to man?
3. What does being released from the law do to man?
The believer is freed from the law so that he might serve in “newness of spirit,” and not in the “oldness of the letter (v.6)
The believer is freed from the law so that he might serve in “newness of spirit,” and not in the “oldness of the letter
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.
Leadership Ministries Worldwide. (1996). Romans (p. 127). Chattanooga, TN: Leadership Ministries Worldwide.
Being freed from the law DOES NOT MEAN that we have no obligation to obey God by following the Law.
When you were married to the Law, it revealed WHO YOUR ARE? Now being married to CHRIST it shows you WHAT YOU SHOULD DO.
In fact it is under the NT where God starts working in our hearts. In see
After Christ did all the work on the cross what needs to follow in order to benefit from it is conversion.
Conversion transitions you from being married to Law to now being married to Christ.
Conversion activates the power of Christ death on the believer.
No faith no salvation. Genuine conversion requires genuine faith. Genuine faith leads to repentance.
and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him.
“Therefore bear fruit in keeping with repentance;
Man has to repent from His sin, repentance is turning away from sin but also turning toward God.
You are no longer under the authority of sin because there is a new authority - Jesus.
You no longer live under the condemnation of the Law but under the grace of God.
The Grace of God allows you to live freely, with no burden.
Upon living under grace it is like a painter starting with a new canvas.
Who died? We did. Dying to sin is separating ourselves from its control.
Being married to Christ leads to:
LIFE - talks about Christ as the one “who gives life to all things.” ...I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
SERVANTHOOD
Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
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.
Romans
WORSHIP
Then Jesus said to him, “Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.’ ”
Worship the Lord in holy attire;
Tremble before Him, all the earth.
Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’ ”
Psalm 86
The believer dies to the law so that he can bring forth fruit unto God. Bearing fruit would mean:
doing good deeds, sharing the Gospel, bearing the character of Christ which is made up the fruit of the Spirit.
The believer dies to the law so that he can bring forth fruit unto God. Bearing fruit would mean …
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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.
Any body being divorced from their spouse retain their memory of the spouse. At the same time despite of being divorced from the Law, the memories of our old sinful life can be aroused will be unearth by the devil and use it temp us of sin.
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.
Romans
⇒ The “oldness of the letter” refers to the law. It is the written law which a man tries to keep in order to please God. But note: the law was the old way for man to live; it is no longer the way for a man to approach God.
The “newness of spirit” can refer to either the Holy Spirit or to the believer’s new spirit. The Holy Spirit is the One who brings new life to the believer and bears fruit within the believer. (See ; . See outline and notes—.)
⇒ The “newness of spirit” can refer to either the Holy Spirit or to the believer’s new spirit. The Holy Spirit is the One who brings new life to the believer and bears fruit within the believer. (See ; . See outline and notes—.)
The Holy Spirit dwelling the life of the believer.
Leadership Ministries Worldwide. (1996). Romans (p. 127). Chattanooga, TN: Leadership Ministries Worldwide.
Lessons Learned:
Lessons Learned:
Freedom from the Law is the solution sin’s dominion of the believer.
The “oldness of the letter” refers to the law. It is the written law which a man tries to keep in order to please God. But note: the law was the old way for man to live; it is no longer the way for a man to approach God.
cThe “oldness of the letter” refers to the law. It is the written law which a man tries to keep in order to please God. But note: the law was the old way for man to live; it is no longer the way for a man to approach God.
The “newness of spirit” can refer to either the Holy Spirit or to the believer’s new spirit. The Holy Spirit is the One who brings new life to the believer and bears fruit within the believer. (See ; . See outline and notes—.)
The “newness of spirit” can refer to either the Holy Spirit or to the believer’s new spirit. The Holy Spirit is the One who brings new life to the believer and bears fruit within the believer. (See ; . See outline and notes—.)
CLOSING VERSE
CLOSING VERSE
but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.