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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Saturday, April 27, 2024
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :Released from the Law Bible Verse:Romans 7:1-6 (ESV "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. " Message:
In the first few verses of Romans 7, Paul attempts to illustrate what it means to die to the law. The illustration is easy enough to follow. The law says that a marriage is permanent. But when one spouse dies, the law no longer has any power over either person in the marriage. Death releases the legal obligation, which Paul calls being “dead to the law.”
When we are born, we are subject to the law and will remain subject to the law all of our lives. We can be righteous before God only by following all of his commandments. But if and when we accept the Holy Spirit (usually accomplished or symbolized by baptism with water) we die and then are reborn in Christ, over whom the law has no dominion. Our relationship with God changes radically.
Of course, we do not undergo physical death. In many senses, it would be more accurate to say we undergo a transformation. The process of being born again is much like what happens to a seed that is planted. The seed seems to die, so that a vine or tree may be born which will bear fruit.
As we know, however, it is not totally accurate to say the seed “dies.” It disappears and something else rises in its place. But Christ and Paul both choose the word “death” to illustrate and emphasize how profound the transformation is. Looking again at the illustration of marriage, there is nothing that frees us from the law of marriage so completely as death. Our relationship to the law ends totally, completely; we are not divorced from it, we are dead to it. We now belong to Christ.
In the coming chapters, Paul will teach us what it means to be dead to the law (and also, what it means to be dead to sin, his main topic in Romans 6).
Meditation : Prayer : Let me not forget my prayers as I go out into the world. Holy Spirit, be with me, and let me praise you and remember you in my every action and thought, for the entire day long. In Christ’s name I ask this,.......Amen |
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