Chapters 7 & 8 Part 1      October 11,2020

In V1 makes it clear that chapter 7 is directed to the Jewish Christians. This is seen in that "The law" is seen in 14 verses of Chapter 7. The first is V1; the last is V25

·        "Them" that know the law are the Jews because the law was delivered to them. So a Jew is under the law as long as he liveth

·        What should gentile Christians glean from this. We are the sons of God. We know the Ten Commandments.

V2-3 The law of Marriage:

·        the woman is bound to her husband as long as he liveth.

·        When the husband dies the woman id free from the bound of the law of marriage.

·        Paul was teaching these Jewish Christians that when they were under the law they were married to the law and the sin the law made manifest.

V4 Identifies the "he" of "as long as he liveth". as the law delivered to the Jews through Moses.

·        The body of Christ that was prepared for Him by the father, bore the stripes and the crown of thorns and was covered in His blood, and was nailed to the cross, and died on that tree, and was buried in the tomb so it could be raised from the dead and break the bond of the law setting them free to be the married to Christ and alive unto God so we can bring forth fruit unto Him.

·        When one become married to Jesus Christ, as the wife brings forth unto the husband, being in Christ we are to bring forth fruit unto Christ and God.

·        Romans 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

·        John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

·        Being free indeed is not being free unto ourselves it is free to bring forth fruit unto God.

·        V5

V5-13 The old man and the new man: Living in the flesh verses living in the spirit

·        The Jews saw the law as a blueprint to holiness. What they did not realize was that having the law did not make them holy. Having the law should have made them realize how sinful they really were.

·        V13 with Romans 5:20a Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound.

·        V8 before the law there was no knowledge of what sin was.

·        Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

     Before the knowledge of the evilness of sin is known, sin is still present and death reigns, but one lives as if everything is alright. There is no burden or desire to repent. This is the deceptive nature of sin Paul speaks about in V11.

With the knowledge of sin, sin is made alive to you and the burden comes upon you and you as if you die

V12 The law is holy and just and good. The law is not sin, the law is not death; to God it is life. To man the law is death because through the law sin is known. When sin is known

These verses show the vanity of seeking holiness by works or creeds of commandments or anything that is not by God's grace and mercy.

V6 - Romans 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Romans 8:2-3 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

Romans 5:20b But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: