Released from the Law
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1 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? 2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. 3 So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man. 4 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. 5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. 6 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.
justification and Sanctification meet and must come together.
We see in capture 6 that there are 4 steps to sanctification
1. Your must die to sin. Verse 2
2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
2. You are united with Christ in His death. Verse 5
5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
3. You have been raised with Christ in Life (His Life) verse 5, 8
8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
4. You have been freed from sin. Verse 22
22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.
Knowing the facts of your position in Christ give one a basis upon which to stand in faith.
Verse 11 say we must reckon or consider this to be true. We must be convinced in the position with God and not be moved.
11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Why don’t we consider this!
we act like we Christians are the most pitiful people in the world.
we are not, we would be if there was no Resurrection
Verse 13 and 19 tells us we must yield to God.
13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.
What does James say,
7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
There is power in your weakness when we totally give it to God.
And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness."
9 And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
Then we must obey God verse 16
16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?
6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time,
Everyone is a slave to something.
To obey one must come under authority. One becomes the slave of the one he obeys, either of sin or righteousness.
A heart obedient to the truth will transform one life.
Favorite verse Ro 6:18
18 and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Obedience and righteousness goes together.
Obedience shows who slave we are.
Everyone is a slave to something.
Now in the 3rd chapter we found that God provided for an apart-from-law righteousness in justification.
Why?
So what man could not boast.
Now in capture 7, we see God has provided for an apart-from-law sanctification for the believer. No man is justified by the law, neither is righteousness realized in daily life through the law.
3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,
We will see in this chapter that the Law could not change the flesh of man, that there is a law operation in the members of his body that is stronger that the law.
So why will the Law not work?
Because there is another law that is in man's member that is stronger than the Law.
Having presented the reign of grace in chapter 6, it is necessary that one does not make the mistake of many that have begun in the Spirit and seek perfection through the efforts of the flesh.
3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
The Holy Spirit desire to make it very clear in this passage that the Law does not produce sanctification, it does not break the power of sin.
Verse one
That the law has ruled over a person as long as he lives?
The Law Rules. We shall see later in this chapter Paul using this term to denote a principle governing one's action. In this context it refers to the Law of Moses and it is generally capitalized.
The word ruled here mean to be lord or master, to rule, Lord over.
Verse 2 lets us know that only death can break the law of marriage.
2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.
The word bound here is the deo meaning tie, or to bind
The word is used of the actual binding and imprisonment. On this passage it denote the binding by law of a wife to her husband.
The verb is in the perfect tense which speaks of being permanently bound.
but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband
the word released here is Kat-ar-geo to be released from association with someone.
In the context of this passage, the woman is released from the law of her husband when he dies.
The law of marriage is binding until death
If a woman breaks the law of marriage before death, she commits adultery.
If her husband dies she is free to be joined to another man.
One dies to the Law through the body of Christ and the resurrection
4 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.
The death of Christ broke the rule of the law.
Since one is free through the death, he is free to be joined to another.
So the conclusion is found in verse 6
6 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.
But nowWe have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound
Back to verse 4 since the Law has been broken by death, one is now joined to another.
One is joined to "Him Who was raised from the dead,"
1. Through His body the rule of the Law is broken.
2. Now one bears "fruit for God,"
3. While joined to the Law, sin in the flesh bore "fruit for death,.
One is now joined to the resurrected Savior.
This reminds one of Chapter 6, which speaks of being raised with Him and being "alive to God in Christ Jesus,"
Let’s read it Ro 6:11
11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
here again we see that position of the believer.
Now we can "serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter." Verse 6 Serve here mean perform the duties of a slave.
Newness here points to something extraordinary.
Being joined to Christ one now can obey by the Spirit.
Serving in the Spirit is an extraordinary experience in comparison to the old way.
The old way which is the letter of the Law is not obsolete.
Wherein "the old" aroused the sinful passions of the flesh, it could never be the instrument of sanctification.
One now is "released from the Law" verse 2,6 Made to die to the Law verse 4
And is free from the Law verse 3