Daily Post

Or do you not know, brothers’- for I am speaking to those who know the law- that the law is binding of a person only as long as he lives? Foe 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. Romans 7:1-2. Paul now expands on the theme of the believer’s relationship to the law. Although the law is holy, just, and good, the sinner’s subjection to it resulted only in condemnation, because law in its justice uncovered every transgression and failure. In this section the relationship of the sinner to the law is compared to marriage. The point of the comparison is that death brings an end to these relationships, and the widowed partner is free to be in a new relationship. Because the “marriage” was broken by death, the believer is not an adulteress and cannot be condemned by the law. The believer dies through being united with Christ in His death, breaking the chain of disobedience and death that bound the sinner together with Adam in his destiny.