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INTRODUCTION:
Have you ever been sent to the principal office?
Principals have a thankless task of enforcing good behavior and school rules.
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And like people in general, kids have an incredible imagination for how to break the rules.
- One person shared a story about how their friend used hairspray and a lighter to send a 3 foot flame on one of their fellow students desk.
– Or another person shared, how one of their classmates zip tied to students back belt loop together.
So essentially they were tied up back to back with no way to get out.
- This was in seminary.
But I had a friend who will remained unnamed who took apart the seminaries doorbell and changed it from making a door bell sound to a cow sound.
So every time somebody came to ring the doorbell it we go mood.
- Perhaps, you have your own unmentioned school prank we could share this morning.
Principals and administrators have a thankless job to keep the rules.
Although suspensions from school is no laughing matter,
it is a shadow compared to when we break holy commands of God.
God is holy and Just Creator – which makes him a righteous judge over all the world.
As song #68 captures this in our hymnals,
Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.
This morning deals with a subject that we often take for granted.
>>That Christ has liberated us from the Law.
Jesus taught but not a little of the law shall pass,
Romans begins with a bold statement -
Under the law –
In ,
We learned that every one of us is under the wrath of God.
We learned that every one of us is under the wrath of God.
That none of us can keep the law ().
And because none of us can keep the law, we all are under the wrath and judgment of God.
And in case we take that lightly today,
Read what Jeremiah says to Israel when they disobey God's law.
Jeremiah 11:9-11
Read with the apostle John told us what would happen in Revelations 20:12-15.
Israel was under the Law - and faced God’s judgement as law-breakers.
That is what Jeremiah is saying.
And that hasn’t changed -
God’s word is sure.
God Word is guaranteed.
And God will judge the World.
But our text gives us a wonderful truth this morning.
We who believe in Christ are liberated from the law.
Our text this morning teaches us -
PROP: We who are free from the Law ought to live a Christ-changed life.
PROP: If we are free from the Law, We ought to live Christ-Changed Lives.
Are you living out the freedom that Jesus bought you on the cross?
TRANS: This passage gives us 3 realities that teach us about our freedom from the Law.
The first reality -
1) Sin Dominated us Through the Law.
(v. 1, 5a)
This was a reality in our lives in two ways.
The first –
a) The Law dominated us in a legal sense.
In my opinion, this refers to the Mosaic law.
But some good arguments could be made that this is a reference to law in general.
>>>>>>Jewish law or Roman law.
Jewish law or Roman law.
Roman law.
Essentially, all ordered societies have some type of rule of law.
In a spiritual sense though,
every one of us must give account to God on whether we obeyed or broke his law.
ILLUSTRATION:
Many states have adopted what they call – three strikes and you're out.
In other words, if you have two violent crimes were felonies,
then your third one is a life sentence.
So through this process, many judges have heard people plea -
Your Honor, I know I've messed up, but would you give me one more chance.
Your Honor, I know I've messed up, you give me one more chance.
The judge looks down at that person, says – I know you want another chance, but the law requires me to send you to prison for life.
>>>> It is out of my hands.
One day – God will say that to every person who has not believed in Jesus Christ.
– teaches us every one of us are lawbreakers before God.
– teaches us that every person will be judged by the law when God brings his judgment.
In a healthy sort of way, that ought to bring us a little bit of fear to us.
The creator of the world one day will be obligated as a just judge to sentence us to eternal punishment.
The law binds us.
Without Jesus Christ, it will judge us into eternal punishment.
Just like human law - it will bring us punishment when we break it.
But that is not the only way that the law dominates us.
Also,
b) We were dominated by the Law because of sin.
The ESV and NASB have the idea that the law has legal jurisdiction over us.
Which is an accurate translation.
But this word is little bit broader than the idea of jurisdiction.
It is the same word to talk about a king ruling over a nation.
Observe how the NET Bible translates this passage -
Rom 7:1
And part of the reason for this broader translation, is because what the rest of Chapter 7 says about the Law.
For our purposes this morning looked down in verse five.
Because Paul elaborates on what it means that the law ruled over us.
Because Paul elaborates on what it means that the law ruled over us.
certainly teaches us that the law rules over us in a legal sense.
certainly teaches us that the law rules over us in a legal sense.
But Paul also teaches us that the law aroused sin passions in us.
But Paul also teaches us that the law arroused sin passions in us.
In other words, our sin nature uses the law to bring greater sin into our life.
I'll talk more about this next week, but I just want to make the point that the law arroused greater sin into our life.
So in our old life, before we knew Jesus,
Law not only legally bound us
but it also bound us with temptation.
Do you know the greatest way for you to know sin?
Do you know the greatest way for you to feel guilt?
Then be a slave to sin under the law.
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