Friday, July 26, 2013

The Law - Romans 8:2

Romans 8:2 ESV 
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

The Spirit raised Jesus from the dead. He does so for us. 

There are two laws, but they both speak of what is acceptable to God. 
The law of sin and death made a way and pointed to the Son. 

Jesus fulfills the law. The law is in Jesus and is overcome by Him. The chains of the old law taught us of our need for Christ.  We are no longer slaves to death, but have an inheritance as children of the Living God. 

It gave us the language to understand something of what God desires for us and the foundation of how we are to live. The law of the Spirit gives us the freedom to access that life. 


Galatians 5:1
 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

John 8:32
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.


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