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2. Married to christ: Romans 7:1-6

3. Married to christ: Romans 7:1-6
Introduction
Romans 6:15 – “What then? Are we to sin because
we are not under law but under grace?
Being saved doesn’t mean that you are free from
having a master.
If we are under grace, then God is our master,
and we want to do as He instructs us to do.

4. Married to christ: Romans 7:1-6
Married to Another (verses 1-4)
When we get married, we take vows.
We promise to honor and cherish each other as
long as we both shall live.
But, what if one of the marriage partners were
to die?

5. Married to christ: Romans 7:1-6
Married to Another (verses 1-4)
The law binds only those that are living.
CAN’T GET PULLED OVER FOR SPEEDING
IF YOU’RE ALREADY DEAD

6. Married to christ: Romans 7:1-6
Married to Another (verses 1-4)
Death breaks the power of sin.
Death also breaks the power of the law.

7. Married to christ: Romans 7:1-6
Married to Another (verses 1-4)
While it is the husband’s death that frees the wife
to remarry, in our case, it is our death that frees
us to remarry.
The law has not died.
We have died, and therefore our marriage to the
law is over.
We have no obligation to the law since we have
died.

8. Married to christ: Romans 7:1-6
Married to Another (verses 1-4)
To be a Christian is to fall in love with Jesus and to
enter into a legal, yet personal, relationship as
comprehensive as marriage.

9. Married to christ: Romans 7:1-6
Married to Another (verses 1-4)
When you get married, no part of your life goes
unaffected.

10. Married to christ: Romans 7:1-6
Married to Another (verses 1-4)
Marriage does entail a significant loss of freedom or
independence.
Marriage also has the opportunity for love, intimacy,
acceptance, and security that you cannot have as a
single person.

11. Married to christ: Romans 7:1-6
Married to Another (verses 1-4)
Paul gives us the ultimate answer on how Christians
live.
We are not “under the law,” in that we don’t obey
the law out of fear of rejection.
We no longer use the law as a means to salvation,
a way of acceptance or access to God, a ladder up
to Him.
Jesus perfect life and death are the ladder up to
God, and we are accepted in Him.

12. Married to christ: Romans 7:1-6
Two Covenants
The original covenant that God made with man is
sometimes called the “creation covenant.”
We call it the “covenant of works.”
We have seen the stark contrast between the first
Adam and the second Adam, the Lord Jesus Christ,
who, like the first Adam, was put to the test and
subjected to probation.
He died for our sin; He lived for our righteousness.

13. Married to christ: Romans 7:1-6
Two Covenants
The covenant of grace refers to the promise God
gave immediately after the fall of Adam and Eve.
Rather than bring promised death as a result of
violating His covenant, He promised a redemption
that would come through the seed of Eve.
The promise of the covenant of grace is that we
will be redeemed not because we keep the law.
We will be redeemed through the one who did
keep the law.

14. Married to christ: Romans 7:1-6
Two Covenants
The covenant of grace refers to the promise God
gave immediately after the fall of Adam and Eve.
We are justified through the works of Jesus alone,
who alone kept the terms of the covenant of works.

16. Married to christ: Romans 7:1-6
Pleasing Christ (verses 5-6)
So, does the Christian ignore the moral law of God then?
Not at all
We are no longer under the law
We are married to it
We are married to Christ; we are seeking to please
Him, and so the law’s precepts are ways to honor the
One we love.
We live to please the one to whom we are married.

17. Married to christ: Romans 7:1-6
Pleasing Christ (verses 5-6)
Our death in “the body of Christ” has changed everything.
We are slaves to God – how could we, and why would
we sin?
We belong to Christ as His bride, knowing that He
died for us – how could we, and why would we, not live
to please Him?
Why would we not live out lives of loving gratitude
towards Him?

18. Married to christ: Romans 7:1-6
Pleasing Christ (verses 5-6)
Ultimately, our identity, our relationship with God, that is
the ultimate answer to Paul’s question in Romans 6:15.
It is knowing who you are in Christ that causes you
to say, deep in your heart: “Will I live in this moment
as though I am a slave to sin, married to the law?”

19. Union to christ: Romans 6:1-14