What does Romans 7:6 teach about being delivered from the law?
Romans 7:6 teaches that, now that we are married to Christ, old Adam is crucified and broken from the demands of the Mosaic law. We are delivered from the law, which held us, so that we should serve in newness of spirit—the Holy Spirit.
Les explains that Romans 7:6 follows Paul’s analogy of being married to Christ, a union like husband and wife. Paul also uses that analogy in Ephesians 5, where Christ loved the church and husbands are told to love their wives. The old Adam must be crucified and put to death so he is broken from the demands of the Ten Commandments, and the believer is married to Christ. Now that we are married to Christ as a result of old Adam being crucified, we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit. Les identifies that spirit as the Holy Spirit. He notes most people do not know this is in Romans 7:6.
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.
More Questions
Why are believers delivered from the Law according to Romans 7?
Believers are delivered from the Law, having died to it spiritually, so that they should serve in newness of Spirit.
What does it mean that believers are delivered from the law?
Believers are delivered from the law so that they should serve in newness of Spirit, not in the oldness of the letter.
How does the crucifixion of old Adam lead to being married to Christ and delivered from the law?
A person becomes married to Christ as a result of old Adam being crucified, and that marriage is the basis for being delivered from the law.