Rom 7:1-4 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? (2) For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. (3) So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. (4) Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
The law ash jurisdiction over you as long as you live. You are bound to it, married to it even. But there is a way out.
The Woman in verse 2 represents the law and of course we know that the law always brings condemnation. The Husband in verse 2 represents the Saint. The only way of escape, legally speaking, is by death. While both lives, they are bound together.
We are all married in a sense to the law, till death do us part. But there is a problem, the Law of God endures for ever, it will never die. So to escape that relationship and come under another, then you must die. For the saint this has happened, we are now dead to the law, by Christ and His sacrifice. Christ took our guilt to the cross and died, and we are died along with him and as Christ is risen so to are we, risen to new life separated from the Law.
You cannot come to Christ in your own works, you must be found in Christ and His righteousness.
Gal 2:20-21 I am crucified [Dead] with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (21) I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Presented by Pastor David Dawson