Released From The Power of Sin

Released From the Power of Sin

By Apostle Felix

1  I write to you, dear brothers and sisters, who are familiar with the law. Don’t you know that when a person dies, it ends his obligation to the law?
2  For example, a married couple is bound by the law to remain together until separated by death. But when one spouse dies, the other is released from the law of the marriage. 

Romans 7: 1, 2

The power of sin is the law, not the devil. It is somehow ironic that the law, which is holy, should empower sin. The Bible is very clear about the purpose of why the law was given to Israel through Moses. It was not meant to make man righteous or bring man in right standing with God. It’s purpose was to make man realize how sinful he was and also to realize his need for the savior. Unfortunately, man made the law as the means of salvation and instead rejected the Savior, Jesus Christ.

23  So until the revelation of faith for salvation was released, the law was a jailer, holding us as prisoners under lock and key until the “faith,” which was destined to be revealed, would set us free.
24  The law becomes a gateway to lead us to the Messiah so that we would be saved by faith.

Galatians 3: 23, 24

5  When we were merely living natural lives, the law, through defining sin, actually awakened sinful desires within us, which resulted in bearing the fruit of death.

Romans 7: 5

Paul described the law as a jailer, a prison warder. The law is not evil, however, it has no power to set anybody free from the power of sin. What the law does is to show man how sinful he is. In other words, it is a tool used for condemnation. Just like the law of any country is used to condemn criminals in the court of law. The law of the land is good and just, but it is in normal circumstances, used to condemn. We were offenders and deserved condemnation. But Jesus chose to be condemned in our place so that we can be justified. We were married to the law, and the only way we could be freed from the yoke was through death.

4  So, my dear brothers and sisters, the same principle applies to your relationship with God. For you died to your first husband, the law, by being co-crucified with the body of the Messiah. So you are now free to “marry” another—the one who was raised from the dead so that you may now bear spiritual fruit for God.

Romans 7: 4

A married person is only freed from the vow of marriage only through the death of a espouse. Jesus had to be born under the law so that He could die as one bound to the law. When He died under the law, man was free to marry someone else of his choice. But Jesus gave man a better choice of Himself when He rose from the dead. He became sin and was condemned to death by the law. He defeated sin by fulfilling the law in His body. He never broke a law, yet died the death of a law breaker. His death and resurrection is our freedom from sin.

6  But now that we have been fully released from the power of the law, we are dead to what once controlled us. And our lives are no longer motivated by the obsolete way of following the written code, so that now we may serve God by living in the freshness of a new life in the power of the Holy Spirit. 

Romans 7: 6

As long as you are in Christ, you are dead to sin and alive to God. You now have the power over sin that once had power over you, because of Christ in you. Now that JESUS fulfilled the law in His body, you do not have to follow the written code as the means of overcoming sin. You follow the One who overcame sin in His body, and His name is Jesus Christ.