In this past week’s sermon, Paul illustrated how the believer in Christ is free from sin (Romans 6:22). Now, as we enter chapter 7, he goes on and conveys the relationship of the believer to the Law and illustrates a bit further on this freedom.
Paul is writing to those “who know the Law” (Romans 7:1), and he wonderfully expresses the relationship between the Christian and the law by using an illustration from marriage to convey his message.
In our marriage vows, we say one to another, “For richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and cherish till death do us part…”, The believer’s death to the law takes place when our faith is placed in the finished work of Christ. The law, as good as it is, was never intended to be a means of salvation. Rather, it was meant to be a “instrument” or a “means” to show a sinful humanity how far we fall short of God’s perfect standard and how powerless we are to save ourselves…therefore the reason why everyone needs Jesus.
There are many today who still believe by keeping the Moral Law they can be saved and made right with God, but this is why the Scriptures were given to us, to help us comprehend our great need for a Savior in order that we may discover that Christ satisfies all our needs.
May we thank God for giving us His Law, because without it, we would’ve never known what and Whom we needed to be saved from.
John
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