Married to Christ

The law does not save. Jesus saves. We have to die to the belief that we can work our way to heaven. The law- keeping the law in and of itself does not save, cannot save.


Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren,
ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ;
that ye should be married to another,
even to him who is raised from the dead,
that we should bring forth fruit unto God.


We become dead to the law- we agree the law cannot save us, but Christ saves us. 'We should be married to another' married to Christ. The law, the belief we can save ourselves by acting in accordance with the law must die. Touting our godliness, touting our goodness, holding up our actions, holding fast to the belief that we can behave and be saved is all wrong. Christ saves us. Christ raised from the dead and we find life in Him. The fruit we bring forth- our actions that will naturally be in accordance with the commandments of God- are brought forth through the love of God, the love of our Savior. We have to die to self and the belief we can save ourselves through the law. Love needs to reign through our Savior. Our flesh is weak and if we rely on ourselves we are relying on the flesh and we are lost. We must rely on the Lord.


By the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior now and forever! In His righteousness.


Amen.


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Rom 7:1 Know ye not, brethren,
(for I speak to them that know the law,)
how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?


Rom 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth;
but if the husband be dead,
she is loosed from the law of her husband.


Rom 7:3 So then if, while her husband liveth,
she be married to another man,
she shall be called an adulteress:
but if her husband be dead,
she is free from that law;
so that she is no adulteress,
though she be married to another man.


Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren,
ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ;
that ye should be married to another,
even to him who is raised from the dead,
that we should bring forth fruit unto God.


Rom 7:5 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.


Rom 7:6 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.


Rom 7:7 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.


Rom 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment,
wrought in me all manner of concupiscence.
For without the law sin was dead.


Rom 7:9 For I was alive without the law once
but when the commandment came,
sin revived, and I died.


Rom 7:10 And the commandment,
which was ordained to life,
I found to be unto death.


Rom 7:11 For sin,
taking occasion by the commandment,
deceived me, and by it slew me.


Rom 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy
and the commandment holy,
and just, and good.


Rom 7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me?
God forbid.
But sin,
that it might appear sin,
working death in me by that which is good
that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.


Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual
but I am carnal, sold under sin.


Rom 7:15 For that which I do I allow not
for what I would,
that do I not;
but what I hate,
that do I.


Rom 7:16 If then I do that which I would not
I consent unto the law that it is good.


Rom 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it
but sin that dwelleth in me.


Rom 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,)
dwelleth no good thing
for to will is present with me
but how to perform that which is good I find not.


Rom 7:19 For the good that I would I do not
but the evil which I would not,
that I do.


Rom 7:20 Now if I do that I would not,
it is no more I that do it,
but sin that dwelleth in me.


Rom 7:21 I find then a law,
that, when I would do good,
evil is present with me.


Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man


Rom 7:23 But I see another law in my members,
warring against the law of my mind,
and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.


Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am!
who shall deliver me from the body of this death?


Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God;
but with the flesh the law of sin.

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