What has made a believer free from the law of sin and death?
The law or fact of life of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made the believer free from the law of sin and death. This freedom does not come through the Mosaic Law or Ten Commandments, which were weak through the flesh, but through the Spirit's life in Christ.
Les explains that the context sets before us two facts of life: the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus and the law of sin and death. The Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made the believer free from the law of sin and death. The Mosaic Law, the Ten Commandments, could not accomplish this because it was weak through the flesh. God sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemning old Adam in the flesh, so that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled. The law was perfect from God's viewpoint, but from the human standpoint it was weak and a yoke.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
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What does it mean that the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and death?
In Romans 8:2 the word 'law' is used in that same sense of a fact of everyday life: the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has set the believer free from another fact of life, the Law of Sin and Death.