I was going to close the series about the church with another message that was written for today but was led to write and post this message first. Many people believe that Romans 7:1-6 is referring to a physical marriage between a male and female, and under the old covenant (Old Testament) that was true, but after Jesus died and rose He ushered in a new and better covenant.
Example: He told the man that was healed to show Himself to the priest. That was Old Testament- After Christ rose from the dead, the old covenant priest no longer existed. All born again believers are a royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9). And Jesus Christ is our Most Excellent High Priest. Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession (Hebrews 4:14).
The difference between law and grace- humans could not keep the Law; but God’s grace keeps us
Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man.
Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. Now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter (Romans 7:1-6). The letter of the law kills, but the Spirit gives life (2 Corinthians3:6).
Jesus told how one could get a divorce - The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason? “And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away? “He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery (Matthew 19-3-9).
This is crucial- Paul spent as much time with Jesus as the disciples did (both three years). Paul did not walk with Jesus; he was taught personally deeper things than what the disciples learned.
Paul also wrote about marriage and divorce and he took it to a deeper level. And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband.
Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. But if the unbeliever leaves, let it be so. The brother or the sister is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace.
How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or, how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? (1 Corinthians 7:13-16).
What the readers are to take away from this message, when it comes to Romans 7:1-3, the main emphasis is we have divorced the law and are married to Christ.
That’s the reason we should look at the Word of God through spiritual eyes; this is the only way we will get the proper understanding.
His handmaiden, Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org
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