Dying To Get Out Of Your Marriage
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1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? 2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. 4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. 6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Isn’t that what we all promise when we say our vows? “Till death do us part”. That is because God ordained marriage to be between one man and one woman for their lifetime. They are one flesh for as long as they both shall live. However, once one of them dies, they are no longer bound by that law. Some chose to remarry, while others chose to remain single. However, that is the point, they are now single again.
I know this strikes a nerve for many who will hear this. I am not trying to be insensitive. It is a simple fact and one that Paul uses to illustrate a spiritual truth in our text today.
I. Married to the Law
II. Till death do us part
a. it is not the law that dies, but us.
b. We die in Christ and