Free From The Law: Romans :8:3 WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO, IN THAT IT WAS WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH... The only answer to the condemnation of the law is to deal with sin by some other means. The law can never stop sin in our lives simply because sin is there, Rather, the law makes sin active and alive, for by the law is the knowledge of sin ( Romans 3:20). Thus Romans 7 tells us: 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. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I HAD NOT KNOWN SIN, BUT BY THE LAW: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. BUT SIN, TAKING OCCASION BY THE COMMANDMENT, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. FOR WITHOUT THE LAW SIN WAS DEAD. For I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE: BUT WHEN THE COMMANDMENT CAME, SIN REVIVED AND I DIED. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. FOR SIN TAKING OCCASION BY THE COMMANDMENT, DECEIVED ME, AND BY IT SLEW ME. For we know that THE LAW IS SPIRITUAL: BUT I AM CARNAL, SOLD UNDER SIN ( Romans 7:5,7-11,14). It is our identification with Christ at Calvary that frees us from sin. In Romans 6 our freedom from sin is based squarely on the fact that we have been crucified with Christ: Knowing this, that OUR OLD MAN IS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM (CHRIST), THAT THE BODY OF SIN MIGHT BE DESTROYED, THAT HENCEFORTH WE SHOULD NOT SERVE SIN. (vs.6,7). In Romans 7 we learn that this same identification with Christ at Calvary has also made us free from the law: Wherefore, my brethren, YE ALSO ARE BECOME DEAD TO THE LAW by the body of Christ... 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 ( vs. 4,6). To be free from the law means that Christ has delivered us from trying to be good in order to be accepted by God. No longer is it necessary to be under external enactments, under conditions of performance and duty. In Christ we already have an eternal standing in grace- have already already secured Divine favor, by a sovereign act of God which has not only reckoned to us Christs redeeming work but has placed us fully in His present acceptance with God!! This deliverance from the law gives us liberty from sins dominion in the details of our lives. The relationship between sin and the law is explained in 1 Cor. 15:56, THE STRENGTH OF SIN IS THE LAW. God bless
Posted on: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 18:58:03 +0000
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