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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.

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.

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

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When is man subject to the law?

The jurisdiction of the law to the non-believer.

Dead from our transgressions.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

How to be born again?

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.

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.

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Christ died on the cross to redeem us from the Law…which was a curse to us believers.