Delivered from the Law Romans 7:6

Paul the apostle told the people in Rome “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”, and in chapter seven and verse six of Romans, Paul told the people in Rome, “now we are delivered from the law” where we read:

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.

The verse begins, “But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held;” Paul began with the word, “but now” which means “moreover and at this moment and present time” “we are delivered” which means “Paul, his companions and his believing readers are rendered idle, unemployed, inactive and inoperative” “from the law” or “separate and apart from the rule producing a state approved of God”, “that being dead” or “since and because perished and slain” “wherein we were held” which means “whereby Paul, his companions and his believing readers were held back, detained, restrained and hindered”. Paul shared how he, his companions and his believing readers were “freed” from “the penalty of death” which was incurred by their lack of keeping “God's law”.

The verse continues, “that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.” Paul added the words, “that we should serve” or “that Paul, his companions and his believing readers world do service, obey, submit and yield obedience” “in newness” which means “in a state of life in which the Holy Spirit places us so as to produce a new state which is eternal life” “of spirit” or “the simple essence which is devoid of all or at least all grosser matter and possessed of the power of knowing, desiring and acting”, “and not in the oldness” which means “and not in the old state of life controlled” “of the letter” which means “through the writing, document or record”. The reason Paul, his companions and his believing readers were “delivered from the law” which caused “death” was to “submit and yield” themselves anew in “spirit” and not attempting to keep the “written law”.

When we consider these words of Paul, we should be excited over what Jesus has done for us. When He went to the cross and fulfilled the law and paid it's penalty, death, we were “set at liberty” to live “with a new spirit” and not being bound to “the law”. Paul desired for the Romans to know the freedom they had obtained in Christ, and how God poured out His “grace” or “unmerited favor” upon everyone who will believe and trust in Him. May all who read these words realize they have been “delivered from the law” and set free to “live unto God”.

Next time Paul asks his readers, “is the law sin?”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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