Walk in the Spirit
Rom 7
1 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.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
I personally do not believe the Law of God is different from the Law of Moses, but for the sake of communication, I will distinguish.
In
Rom 7, Paul is referring to the Law of God because he quotes from it (Thou shalt not covet).
And Paul says in verse 6 that we are DELIVERED from the Law.
Rom 7
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
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For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Yes, the Law is SPIRITUAL. This is referring to the Law of God. But remember Paul said in verse 6 that we are DELIVERED from the Law of God.
Rom 8
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the
law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
We are DELIVERED from the Law through Christ. The righteousness of the Law is fulfilled in us when we WALK in the Spirit. Let's not serve in the oldness of the Letter but in newness of the Spirit.
1 Cor 9:
21 To them that are without law, as without law,
(being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
John 13
34
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
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