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Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Two different laws -Romans 7 and 8

Rom8:1-2"Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death." It seems to me that there are two different laws. The law of sin and of death is the law that we commonly accept -- Moses' laws, universal ethics,etc. But the law of the Spirit transends and goes beyond the law of sin and death, and if we do things according to the Spirit, we'll live, but if we do things according to the law, we'll die. If we do things according to the spirit, even if this thing contradicts the common law, and is condemned by the law, there is no condemnation from God. verse 10 "If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin,yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness(faith). 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you." In other words, Jesus was condemned to death by the law. He broke the Pharasee's understanding of law. He healed on the Sabath...etc. And the law condemned him death. But Jesus was not bound by the law, He was living according to the law of the Spirit, which means, He did everything according to what the Spirit wanted, not what the law wanted. So even though he was condemned by the "church" of His time(the pharasees,etc) and was crucified according to the law of His time, there was no condemnation from God and therefore God raised Him from the dead. And if we are to join Christ, we are to join in the same law, that is to live according to the will of the Spirit, abide in the Spirit, and not be bound by the law of letters any more. Rom 7:4"you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God." v6"But now we have been released from the law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter."