Delivered from the Law - Part 782

Because of Jesus and His sacrifice, we who believe in Him by faith, and seek His righteousness have been forever -- once and for all --delivered from the Law. And yet, too often, we are judged according to the Law by the religious culture that surrounds us. This is nothing new. The book of Romans in the New Testament focuses on this religious mindset. In particular, Romans 7:6 which states, 

"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." 

Remember, we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23) This happened because of Adam and Eve's original transgression in the Garden. Then God gave us the Law and Ten commandments to follow, which we similarly failed. Unfortunately, there are those within today's religious culture who would like to see us remain under the old covenant -- the Law -- without ever learning the truth of His grace. The ultimate plan of salvation that sets us free. 

Indeed, from the beginning, God has a better plan for you and I. He wants us to love Him with all our hearts, soul, mind and strength. His desire for us is that as believers in Him, we would become His bride -- members of the body of Christ working together in unison to bring fruit. Jesus being the Head of the Church -- "the only mediator between God and man." (I Timothy 2:5-6) He desired our love so much that He willingly shed His blood on the cross for us. He who knew no sin becoming sin for you and I. The veil of the old covenant torn from top to bottom.

Why? So that instead of "O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" we can thank our heavenly Father for His wonderful plan of salvation, wherein His humanity died so that we might have life more abundantly. So that we could serve Him in newness of spirit, and NOT in the oldness of the letter of the Law.

"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. 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. 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." (Romans 7:4-6)

In other words, we serve Jesus in newness of spirit. We are bought with a price. (I Corinthians 6:20) As a consequence, those of us who believe in Jesus by faith are now under His covenant of love. We are no longer servants of the law which had been given to us in times past as a schoolmaster. We are sons and daughters of the Most High King.

"Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith ... but after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster." (Galatians 3:24-25)

Therefore, now, under this new covenant of grace, "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." (Romans 7:6) 

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands ... that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

But now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ ... for He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in Himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

And that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.

For through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the Chief cornerstone ... in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord. In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit." (Ephesians 2:8-22)

That in the ages to come -- today/now -- in this new covenant dispensation of grace, "He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." (Ephesians 2:6) Ask Jesus into your life today. Read His Word for your understanding. Stand in the offering plate.