New Law
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New Law
New Law
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
We have a new Law!
Let’s act like it!
Great days - you are free and have the spirit of life!
This great eighth chapter of Romans begins with “no condemnation” and ends with “no separation.”
No comdenation for those in Christ ....
You are free from the guilt of sin
You are free from the bondage of works
You are free to pursue a life with Christ
This is a new life:
Sin is forgiven and we desire through the Holy Spirits help and new life:
Its not about guilt
It not about geting favor with God
Its not something we do to get out of trouble
It a desire that God has given us.
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Illustration
Fishing - Some Tim Peria and Craig Brandick have a desire to fish on the opening day of trout season.It not something forced up them it just what they have a desire to do ...
4 Delight thyself also in the Lord; And he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
The new law is not something we have to obey its something we want to obey...
This a new day
It not because I have to
It because I want to
No Condemnation - I am walking in the spirit....
I. No More Condemned by Sin
I. No More Condemned by Sin
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
The expression “in Christ” is one of Paul’s favorites.
We are in Christ !
It occurs in all his epistles and denotes a new sphere into which the believer is brought at conversion.
The concept of being “in Christ” is not an easy one to grasp apart from an illustration; and here the Old Testament is helpful, for one of the great functions of the Old Testament is to cast light illustratively upon the New Testament.
Probably by patient investigation every major teaching or concept of the New Testament could be found illustrated in the Old Testament. This concept of being secure “in Christ” is no exception.
Take, for instance, the case of Noah. When the ark was finished and a perfect way of escape from divine wrath provided, the invitation went forth, “Come thou and all thy house into the ark” (Gen. 7:1).
Now, the ark was pitched “within and without with pitch” and, interestingly enough, the Hebrew word for “pitch” is the identical word used elsewhere for “atonement.” Between the saved in the ark and the waters of judgment without was the hewn wood and the pitch.
Once Noah and his family were safely in the ark, we read that “the Lord shut him in” (Gen. 7:16).
Here was complete security. God did not say to Noah, once the ark was finished, “Now, Noah, I want you to take eight spikes and drive them into the outside timbers of the ark. So long as you and your family hang on you will be saved, but if you once let go you will be lost.”
No! God shut him in. What it meant for Noah to be “in the ark,” it means for us to be “in Christ.”
In Him, God has placed us in a sphere where His wrath can never reach us and we are secure as Christ can make us. There is no more condemnation for sin.
Illustration here
We can not be reached!
Out of touch - Zoo tigers can touch me out of reach ....
We have been set free from the bondage of sin
Being in Christ means we are secured by Christ
You are out of reach from satan
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
II. No More Controlled by Sin
II. No More Controlled by Sin
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
The spirit of Life hath made me free!
No longer a slave to works or sin ....
Picture a coin falling toward the ground under the influence of the law of gravity. In itself, that coin is powerless to overcome the downward pull of this earth. It is in its very nature to fall.
But before it has gone far, someone reaches out an arm, holds the coin firmly in his hand, and then lifts it higher and higher in defiance of the law of gravity.
The law of the spirit of life in that person’s arm overcomes the law of gravity. This does not mean that the original law has ceased to operate, but it does mean that a higher law has come into force.
We sin by nature because we are victims of the fall and because it is the nature of fallen man to sin. But “in Christ Jesus” a higher law operates, “the law of the Spirit of life”; and this law sets us free from the lesser law of sin and death.
The Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death.
These are two opposite laws or principles.
The characteristic principle of the Holy Spirit is to empower believers for holy living.
The characteristic principle of indwelling sin is to drag a person down to death. It is like the law of gravity.
When you throw a ball into the air, it comes back down because it is heavier than the air it displaces. A living bird is also heavier than the air it displaces, but when you toss it up in the air, it flies away. The law of life in the bird overcomes the law of gravity. So the Holy Spirit supplies the risen life of the Lord Jesus, making the believer free from the law of sin and death[1]
I ma no longer under the bondage of sin
1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: 39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
We are not condemned and controlled by sin! We are free in christ ....
Many of us have lives that are out of control and we don’t even know it. Being out of control is what the Bible describes as “the works of the flesh.” You see, either “the flesh” or the Spirit is going to be controlling your life.
The opposite of the Spirit-controlled life is the life filled with the works of the flesh, and this is where Paul begins—those things that stand out as red flags in a life that’s out of control. We see folks living like this every day.
What controls you
Flesh or the spirit
We are no longer under bondage or the flesh
The Intercession of the Spirit is the Christian belief that the Holy Spirit helps and guides believers who search for God in their hearts. In the Epistle to the Romans (8:26-27) Saint Paul states:
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
III. No More Self-Righteous
III. No More Self-Righteous
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
The law could never get people to fulfill its sacred requirements, but grace has succeeded where law failed. Let us see how!
The Law just identified sin and made us guilty
We are weak through the flesh and can not keep it.
The law put is in a position of hopelessness and inability to save ourselves.
The law could not produce holy living because it was weak through the flesh.
The trouble was not with the law but with fallen human nature.
The law spoke to men who were already sinners and who were without strength to obey.
But God intervened by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh. Take careful notice that the Lord Jesus did not come in sinful flesh itself but in “the likeness of” sinful flesh.
He did no sin (1 Pet. 2:22),
He knew no sin (2 Cor. 5:21),
and there was no sin in Him (1 Jn. 3:5).
But by coming into the world in human form, He resembled sinful humanity. As a sacrifice for sin, Christ condemned sin in the flesh.
He died not only for the sins which we commit (1 Pet. 3:18) but also for our sin nature.
In other words, He died for what we are just as much as for what we have done. In so doing, He condemned sin in the flesh.
Our sin nature is never said to be forgiven; it is condemned. It is the sins that we have committed that are forgiven.
8:4 Now the righteous requirement of the law is fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
As we turn over the control of our lives to the Holy Spirit, He empowers us to love God and to love our neighbor, and that, after all, is what the law requires.
In chapters 6 and 7 he discussed the horrendous problem of sin in the nature. Now he announces triumphantly that the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death. In chapter 7 the whole subject of the law was brought up.
Now we learn that the law’s requirements are met by the Spirit-controlled life.
The New Law :
The New Law :
I. No Condemnation for Sin
I. No Condemnation for Sin
II. No More Controlled by Sin
II. No More Controlled by Sin
III. No More Self-Righteous
III. No More Self-Righteous
