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02-03-2006, 10:00 AM
Quote:An Illustration From Marriage
1Do you not know, brothers--for I am speaking to men who know the law--that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?
Paul is again chastising the Jews for their arrogance of being the people of the Law. That they hold having the law gives authority when if fact it holds authority only over the unsaved.
Quote:2For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
Divorce is a sin. God intended for a man and woman to be of one flesh as long as they lived.
But when one dies there are no longer two but one. The one can now find another to be one with without there being sin.
Quote:3So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress.
She commits adultery to remarry while he lives.
Quote:But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man.
The bond by Law no longer exists.
Quote:4So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ,
Upon repentance one enters the grave with Christ. This satisfies the Law and its consequences. One is not longer accountable for what they did in their old dead life.
Quote:that you might belong to another,
One dies to the union with Law and joins in union with Christ.
Quote:to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
We enter Christ's grave covered in our sins. We leave the grave a new person cleansed of sin.
We enter the grave serving sin. We exit the grave serving God.
Quote:5For when we were controlled by the sinful nature,
We are born with sinful natures and so wedded to sin and its commitment.
Quote:[1] the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death.
Service to our sinful natures caused us to be judged by sin. Law condemned us to death.
Quote:6But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
We are dead to our sinful natures which brought on the condemnation of Law. We are now alive to the nature of Christ planted within us. There is no condemnation of Law in that nature.
1Do you not know, brothers--for I am speaking to men who know the law--that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?
Paul is again chastising the Jews for their arrogance of being the people of the Law. That they hold having the law gives authority when if fact it holds authority only over the unsaved.
Quote:2For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
Divorce is a sin. God intended for a man and woman to be of one flesh as long as they lived.
But when one dies there are no longer two but one. The one can now find another to be one with without there being sin.
Quote:3So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress.
She commits adultery to remarry while he lives.
Quote:But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man.
The bond by Law no longer exists.
Quote:4So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ,
Upon repentance one enters the grave with Christ. This satisfies the Law and its consequences. One is not longer accountable for what they did in their old dead life.
Quote:that you might belong to another,
One dies to the union with Law and joins in union with Christ.
Quote:to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
We enter Christ's grave covered in our sins. We leave the grave a new person cleansed of sin.
We enter the grave serving sin. We exit the grave serving God.
Quote:5For when we were controlled by the sinful nature,
We are born with sinful natures and so wedded to sin and its commitment.
Quote:[1] the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death.
Service to our sinful natures caused us to be judged by sin. Law condemned us to death.
Quote:6But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
We are dead to our sinful natures which brought on the condemnation of Law. We are now alive to the nature of Christ planted within us. There is no condemnation of Law in that nature.