Romans 6:15-7:6
Dear RTB’ers,
John’s comment on death yesterday stays with us today. There are at least nine references to death and dying in today’s passage. Paul paints a good picture of marriage and life and death. We are bound to our spouses by law as long as they are alive. But if they die, we are no longer bound by that law, but are free to re-marry. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead… (v. 7:4) Continuing, But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code. (v. 7:6) We who are reading this today are not Jews bound by their old Law. However, we do have our own old thoughts and ways and habits – our old “self”, if you wish. If we have truly died to whatever we were before, that old “self”, we should not still be living in any of those old thoughts, ways and habits. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (vv. 6:22-23) Period. GLORY!
Blessing!