The consequences of the change of husbands. In chapter seven, the first four verses, Paul clarified his assertion that humankind is not under the law. It is not under the Law’s dominion because the sinful life of humankind died in the body of Jesus on the cross at Golgotha. Only eternal death could dissolve the
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The sounding of the sixth trumpet. “So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.” Romans 7:4, NET. Humankind’s marriage to the law was dissolved through
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Freed from marriage to the law. “So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress. Romans 7:3, NET. Paul emphasized
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Freed from marriage to the law. “Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives? Romans 7:1, NET. Translators of the Bible employed the noun “person” about the one ruled by the law.
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Summary. The preceding blogs presented Paul’s assertion that yielded believers do not sin because they have died to the law and thus are free from sin’s power. The whole of the old humankind died in the body of Jesus on the cross at Golgotha. Being dead to the law means being free from the law’s
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Re-emphasis. Previous blogs presented Paul’s repeated emphasis on what God has accomplished for sinful humankind. God had the sinful spirit of humankind die in the body of Jesus Christ on the cross at Golgotha. Humankind now has a new spirit, a new life, in Jesus Christ, the Second Adam. Jesus Christ is our righteousness from
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Grace is not made available only. It has been fulfilled. “But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.” Romans 6:22, NET. God removed from humankind the disgraced sinful spirit, the sinful life, through his Grace, Jesus Christ, on the cross at
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Why did the “old man” have to die? “For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.” Romans 6:12, NET. Here the Apostle Paul presents the good news in a nutshell. Unfortunately, many of the first-century believers misunderstood what Paul was saying. Accordingly, Paul endured much grief
The solution to the human sin problem. “We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin.” Romans 6:6, NET. The human spirit God put into humankind on the day Adam was created sinned
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Freed from sin’s dominion. An overview. “What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase? Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?” Romans 6:1 -2, NET. How did the sinful humankind fie to sin? Some first-century Christians maintained that sin was justifiable.
Freed from sin’s dominion. An overview. We understand from the previous blogs that because of disobedience by one man Adam, the whole of humankind became helpless slaves to sin. Sin was the lord over humanity until the cross at Golgotha. However, God destroyed sin and the sinful human spirit on the cross at Golgotha forever.
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The amplification of the concept of justification. The earlier blogs presented Paul’s forceful assertion that the justification of sinful humankind was because of God’s love and the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. God loves humankind so much that he delayed the punishment for sin in the garden of Eden. He delayed his wrath against sin to
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The benefit of justification by the faithfulness of Jesus. “Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.” Romans 5:1 –