Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. 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, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. 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. (Romans 7:1-6 ESV)
The law is only powerful over you until you have died… Then the law has no power over you. If a woman is married and her husband has died, then she is released from the law that holds her to him. But if she has sexual relations with a man while her husband is still living then she commits adulatory…
But we are released from the law having died to that which held us captive. So we can serve in the new way of the Spirit and not worrying about what rules we have to follow. You see the rules can not save us. We can not be saved by living a certain way because that is what our parents did, or the elders of our congregation did. We can not be saved by acting the way all Christians before us have acted because they have not all acted the same. There are no rules that will get us to heaven! We must live in the Spirit and love as we were loved.
The old is dead and the new Spirit has enlightened us to what we must do. And that is to love justice, to live mercy and walk humbly with God, allowing our lives to shine forth His love.
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