Time Well Spent with Cornelius F. Warren featuring Elder Sam Fisher

Tonight we begin in Romans 7. In our text (verses 1-6), Paul first makes a general statement in verse 1about the law’s jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives. Then in veres 2-3, he illustrates his point by showing that a woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. He is not giving comprehensive teaching here about divorce and remarriage. Rather, he uses an analogy to make a point: the law has jurisdiction over the living, not over the dead. If a person dies, he is no longer under the law. 

Then, in verse 4, Paul applies the point, showing that we died to the law through the death of Christ. We are now “remarried” to Christ so that we might bear fruit for God:  Then he explains verse 4 negatively and positively. In verse 5, we need to die to the law because it aroused our sinful passions to bear fruit for death. But, in verse 6, in Christ we have been released from bondage to the law so that we serve God in newness of the Spirit. To summarize:

Through our union with Christ, we have died to the law so that we are free to bear fruit for God in the Spirit..

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