THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 7:1-6 | MARRIED TO ANOTHER

Mike Balloun teaches today, 10/31/20

ROMANS CHAPTER 7:1-6

VERSES: 2nd Corinthians 3:1-6; Luke 16:16; Hebrews 1:1-2, 2:10; Matthew 17:3-5

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ROMANS 7:1-6 MARRIED TO ANOTHER

Romans 5:12 to 6:23 contrasts: ‘In Adam’ with ‘In Christ’ and now Romans 7:1 to 8:39 contrasts ‘In the flesh’ with ‘In the spirit’. Romans 5&6 deals with our freedom from imputed unrighteousness from the first Adam’s sin and its death sentence, in the power of imputed righteousness from the selfless offering of the Second Adam.

In the previous chapters, the focus is more on what Christ has done for us. In Chapter 7, the focus turns acutely toward what God through Christ will do in us. It is now that I am to know that I am not only ‘in Christ’ but Christ is in me.
The Cross has been given by God to procure for us the gift of eternal life; whereas the renewed spirit/Spirit has been given to produce a greater salvation in our soul and body. Remembering that in the Greek, the word ‘salvation’ has a past, present, and future connotation. At Justification, our spirits were saved, and God granted to us the Divine nature within our hearts. He then desires us to yield to His Divine nature by walking in sanctification, so that we may be saved in soul and body as well. 1st Peter 1:9 calls it, “Receiving the end (goal) of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.” (The saving of the body will be realized in resurrection glory for those who are overcomers.)

In Chapter 6, Paul told us how we are delivered from sin, typical of a slave from his Master (Christendom as a general rule has concluded that this was the end of God’s requirements for man’s salvation). But then the 7th Chapter deals with the further need of freedom from the Mosaic/Adamic Law (revealing a further purpose of His Salvation Plan) wherein the relation is shown in type of that of husband and wife.

Chapter 7 teaches us that redemption or justification from Adam’s condemning sin with the gift of eternal life is not enough to fulfill God’s Gospel purpose; that of bringing many sons unto glory. (Hebrews 2:10) For His purpose for the salvation of man is to have heirs/first-born sons who will rule and reign with Him in glory. We are now to discover, in the wisdom and knowledge of God, the whole matter of Jesus Christ’s Atonement goes far beyond that of inherent ‘sin’ and curse of eternal death from Adam and mere redemption from it; with eternal life; unto pleasing God. In that, we Christians, now having been redeemed and empowered, must now rule over the sin nature left by God within us. (It was intentionally left within us for us to overcome.)

Chapter 7 then answers to Chapter 6’s statement of “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law (of Moses) but of grace”.
The discovery to us then in the 7th Chapter of Romans is that, while on the one hand; positionally we have been raised up to sit in heavenly places with Christ Jesus and are not of this World…but practically or experientially, we are left to continue to live in this World and are as yet connected to our Old Man. In that we yet are capable to walk “in the flesh” as we may yet be “carnal sold under sin” and “in my flesh dwelleth no good thing.” (Romans 7:5,14,18) Being lost spiritually in the World is the equivalent of being in the flesh without power to overcome it. Being ‘saved’ is to have the power to not walk in the flesh (hearkening to the Old Man) and choose to walk in the spirit/Spirit of Christ to please God and receive His commendation when we leave this world, and face sure judgment for how we walked here after being ‘saved’. And to deal with the sin nature within, we must be free from the Law of Moses on the outside.

In the verses below, verses 1-3 speak of the death of the husband (the Law of Moses) and verses 4-6 speak of the death of the wife (followers of Jesus the Christ).

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

VERSE 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.”

VERSE 3 “So then if, while her husband liveth, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law: so that she is no adulteress, through she be married to another man.”

VERSE 4 “Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become (Greek: put to death) to the law by the body (the death of the physical body) of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from....

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