Conflict in sanctification
It is one thing for a believer to understand that his identification with Jesus Christ means that he has died to sin (Rom. 6:2) and to count or reckon that to be true (Rom. 6:11). But it is something else for him to deal with the sin nature that remains within and its efforts to express itself in his thoughts and actions. This is the internal conflict in the area of sanctification that every believer faces.
Released from the Law
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? Rom 7:1
Know ye not,... Question 40. Next, Rom. 7:7. Paul in Rom. 6:1-23 sets forth the obligations of all people to live a holy life. In Rom. 7:1-25 he proves that the Jew is freed from all obligation to law keeping and shows why the law is helpless to deliver any man from sin and hell.
We see here, that Paul is speaking to his Hebrew brethren who knew the Law of Moses. A man was required to keep the law all the days of his life.
No matter how serious a criminal’s offenses may be, he is no longer subject to prosecution and punishment after he dies.
The Believer And The Law
Rom. 7:1-6 relate to Rom. 6:14, the intervening verses (Rom. 6:15-23) being a digression raised by the question in Rom. 6:15. The statement that a believer identified with Jesus Christ in His death is no-longer “under Law” (Rom. 6:14) should not have surprised Paul’s readers because they were men who know the Law. This statement should not be restricted to Jewish believers in the church at Rome because Gentiles also knew the principle that the Law has authority (kyrieuei, “rules as lord”; cf. Rom. 6:9, 6:14) over a man only as long as he lives.
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