OUR FATHER TO WHOM WE BEAR FRUIT BY DYING TO THE FLESH AND BECOMING ALIVE IN CHRIST

Romans chapter 7 says this;

1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? 2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. 4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

In this passage, the Apostle Paul explains that just as a woman whose husband had died was free to marry again because she was no longer obligated to the law of her first marriage,  so are we, having died to the law through the death of the Lord Jesus, no longer obligated to fulfill the letter of the law but rather to live in the newness of the Spirit.

Amen.

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