Freedom and the Wretched Man

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I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before or not but...

Romans 1-8 is considered the Doctrinal Section of Romans.

The Power of the Gospel Romans 1:1-17

The Doctrine of Sin Romans 1:18-3:20

The Doctrine of Justification Romans 3:21-4:25

The Doctrine of Sanctification Romans 5:1-8:39

Released/ freed from the Law (Romans 7:1-6)

Read Romans 7:1-6

Romans 7:1–6 KJV 1900

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.

Paul through the illustration of wife and husband shows the relationship of man and sin.

The Greek word play here is about a woman being under a man in the law. He is talking to those who know the law {Rom 7:1 “1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) }

The principle from this section is that “The Law had dominion over a man as long as he lives.”

Paul’s metaphor of marriage is taken farther but switched around a little we have died to the law “by the body of Christ Rom. 7:4)

Since that death we should be, or might be, or can be, married to another

That one we can be married to is “Him who is raised from the dead.” Referring of course to Jesus.

The previous marriage according to Rom. 7:5 brought about some bad things

The Law and Sin (Romans 7:7-25)