The Secret Of Romans 7 Part 6

INTRO: We are looking at the believer's release from the law. Romans 1 showed that all Gentiles are sinners. The Gentiles who did not have the law of God were under the law of conscience. The Jews who had the law were under the laws revealed in their Scriptures. And Romans 3:19-20 then says this:
19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
To save man, God had to deliver man from the condemnation of the law. That condemnation was that all have sinned and therefore all are condemned. So man had to be released from the condemnation of the law. Romans 8:1 says the believer is no longer under condemnation. How did that happen?
Well, that is what Paul shows in Romans 7:1-6. In verses 1-3 Paul illustrates how the believer is set free from the law. Then in verses 4-6 he gives the application of the illustration. In verse 4 he gave us the purpose of our release from the law. He said: