Till Death Us Do Part

1 to 13.

Romans 7

verses 1

to 32.

Or do you not know brothers

in the old way of the written code.

What then shall we say?

That the law is sin

by no means?

Yet, if it had not been for the

law,

I would not have known sin.

For apart from the law, sin lies dead.

I was once alive apart from the law.

But when the commandment came,

sin came alive

and died.

The very commandment upon this life

to be death to me.

For sin,

seizing an opportunity through the commandment,

to see me and through it, kill me.

So God is holy

and the commandment is holy

and righteous

and good.

Did that which is good then bring death

to me?

By no means,

it was sin

producing

death in me through what is good

to mankind and to society.

Indeed, it's a wonderful blessing

to all creation.

It is intended to be a source of

joy

for Mary Carver.

It is intended to be a source

of sanctification

as the Mary covered how to help, how

to comfort, and how to serve your life,

both in times of prosperity

and in times of adversity.

Of course,

when God so wills, marriage is the sacred

instrument

for the profane of children

and for their nurture

in the knowledge

and in the love

of the Lord.

So that's one of the most surprising to

us that in our rebellious world,

marriage and marriages

are under attack.

Society is literally

hell bent

serve,

and honor our spouses.

And we were weary of one another.

And we become vulnerable

to the Serpent's voice. So this was in

our ears,

has God said?

For the way which we have chosen to

lord over our spouse instead of honoring and

serving them,

we instead attempt

to look for excuses to end the marriage,

or we flat out the way they come

into marriage,

through adultery,

or through

abandonment.

Oh, we can look into the deepest recesses

of our hearts. We can realize

that it is only God's restraining

love

that not only prevents us from doing irreparable

damage in our marriage,

but also

makes

us makes this marriage, this covenant bond between

2 sinners,

amazingly,

it's worth a blessing

and joy

and sanctification.

Praise be to God that mercy triumphs our

judgment.

Praise be to God that love covers the

multitude of sin.

Christ is our perfect and longsuffering,

bright red.

And yet, in this morning text from Romans,

Paul tells us that there is a kind

of marriage

from which Christians have, thankfully,

been delivered.

Sin has a legal or covenantal

claim over every human being,

as a husband,

has over a wife.

But if you're a Christian,

Paul writes that you're no longer part of

that wretched meaning.

Your legal meaning to sin has been turning,

and therefore,

the law's relationship to you

has changed.

So let's

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 freed from the law. And if

she

the

what therefore bodies will be together,

let it know and separate.

So because the characters intended by God to

be for life,

Paul knows that death, therefore,

legally and rightly,

is the avenue that releases a spouse from

the laws of the man upon him or

her

with respect

to marriage.

Paul knows that a woman's husband dies

and she marries another man, she's not in

notice because the death of her husband leaves

her from

the law fleeing

over her in regard

to marriage.

In verse 4, Paul interprets the marriage metaphor

as it relates to the laws power

over the Christian.

He writes,

likewise, my brothers, you also abide to the

law through the body of Christ.

Christ,

Christ

died, we died in Him.

Since therefore, a death has stayed in place.

Our covenantal union to sin our marriage to

sin, as it were,

has been broken

in full accordance

with the stipulations of the law.

And, we are free to marry another.

Namely,

we are free to marry he who has

been raised

from the dead.

This is a reminder to us of the

vital nature

of the deliverance from the law.

Christ was slain

and we were put to death in him.

Death,

He was taken and slain. And He kneel

it. And He gave Himself for the joy

that was set before

the law determined the conditions for your justification.

And the conditions could be summarized by 2

words,

perfect obedience.

Those were the conditions.

You wanna be justified

under that agreement?

You wanna be right under that agreement? Here's

what's the method. Simple two words, perfect

It was Christ's death on the cross that

liberated you from the law's demands.

Only when we realize how much our freedom

from sin costs

will we be driven to appreciate,

This means that your Lord and my room

has the power of life

and expects you to bear fruit that reflects

his character.

So it's good for us to always, especially,

be thinking about the nature of our fruit.

What does it look like?

So the fruit that you produce from that

union, I can eat like you.

It's just reflecting

you. Do your words encourage,

exhort,

excite,

Equip,

and Emile.

Do your works,

construct,

create,

connect,

correct,

and comfort.

So that we serve in the new way

of the Spirit and not in the old

way of what it was said.

Under the power of the law, in the

way the written codes, Paul puts it, the

Froomey Boar was only suitable

for death.

Paul's personification

of death here presents it as a deity

who receives authority.

Our former marriage to sin,

under the powerful binding of the law, bore

indulgeless

of our justification.

Remember, the terms for perfect obedience.

As for the loved man, who doesn't demand

that from us, anyone, not a business view

or anything. We abide in that arrangement. We

are free from that arrangement. We have to

contain that

by no spouse,

I didn't even know what coming was, Paul

says. Until I read the law, you shall

not know him. Perhaps remember a time when

you lived in blissful ignorance of God's

law. Or you have friends or family members

who are early living

That's the problem. That's the issue. That's what

disqualifies us.

What Paul says in verses 7:8

is not

that the law produces sin,

but that the law excites sin that is

already there.

That's the issue.

In this sense, sin

is like the electrons that have photoboltaic cells.

These are electron cells that activate

when there are stars to light.

When the light shines on them, the

light excites them into action and they get

to work.

So also, sin

is present in every human part.

And even if some symbol for Clippians lie

dormant

and undetected as if

dead, Paul writes that when the life of

the law shines on them,

sin is in silent action

and begins his destructive,

deadly work.

The idea that sin is not sin until

you act

is not a biblical

idea.

In fact,

in verse 8, when we read that sin

sees an opportunity through the law,

Again, the Greek word translated as opportunity there

means

starting point or

base of operations.

It's a sin the law, which comes from

God,

reminds the sinful heart that its rebellion is

coming,

causing the heart to activate its boundary and

to seize the base on which it can

launch and attacks.

Sin was already there.

It detestating

that comes from God.

That's not

happening.

But we have to curate what is that

we are consuming, what is coming into our

minds, what is coming into our eyes, what

is coming into our hearts.

We need to repent

our corrupt desires, even if we don't have

them. The God Almighty does not

the life of the law showed

on man, it killed his bride. Paul realized

that he was dead. And that realization actually

liberated Paul from his bondage to the laws

of the man

as he understood

that he would not be justified by the

works of the law.

This realization

produced

repentance in

him.

Okay. So what's the law's product?

First of all, before God gives us eyes

to see our own sinfulness,

the law produces rebellion, misery, and despair. Because

we're a rebellion, misery, and despair. Because we're

a rebellion,

and

So in the immigrant heart,

the law often produces more sin,

which only leads to greater rebellion,

to greater misery,

and to greater despair.

Law

Paul does any doubts

about the goodness of the law to rest

in verse 12, where he describes a lot

as holy,

righteous,

and good.

Those adjectives speak for themselves.

In Paul

through the law in order to expose the

sinfulness of sin

as a word.

Therefore, from our text this morning,

we learned that the law has various good

purposes

or applications

for the person whom the Lord calls.

First of all,

because the law of God reflects God's character,

it provides a path

for us to better understand God's willingness.

In a goal, joy, ours,

where ethics are malleable

and everything is permissible,

it is good to ascertain

the non negotiable

holiness

that God expects,

that God demands

from any person who would walk with Him

and enjoy communion with Him.

As we better understand God's holiness,

any misguided,

That gives us a clear

picture of our own sinfulness,

which sets us on a course toward repentance

and humility and ultimately allows us to apprehend

our great need for a saving. Do you

see what great mercy is? It's a painful

person.

A severe mercy.

To actually have something that pierces

to our very heart, that shows the state

of our soul, that shows our sin,

in building our defenses against

sin. Through our faithful participation in corporate worship,

in family worship,

through the diligent study of God's word,

the

That's essential.

The preaching of the law is essential, and

the gospel is the meaning to us.

How do we get the law preached? The

whole council of law has to be preached.

So it matters what is being preached for

the public. And we ought to demand that

the whole council of law has to be

preached.

God's Son, the faithful white womb of the

Church, promises to break the condemning power of

God's law over us.

He promises to produce the fruit of the

Spirit in our lives.