The Secret Of Romans 7 Part 5

INTRO: We are looking at the believer's release from the law. Paul has illustrated how this takes place in 7:1-3 and it is one of the most amazing illustrations. We'll read these verses:

1 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?

2 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.

3 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.

Verses 1-3 are the illustration, verses 4-6 are the application. No point of law could have proved Paul's application like marriage. So we ask just how does this illustration apply to the Christian's life as related to the law? Well, we find that in verses 4-6 like this:

4 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.