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The Law of the gods
CHAPTER THREE
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free
from the law of sin and death.
The embodiment of the Law of Moses is the Ten Commandments. It
was by the Law given to Moses that men knew and understood what
God called sin. But let us keep in mind this Law was given to a natural
people. They were a people who lived in and walked after the flesh.
Though written on tables of stone, it was the righteousness of God
revealed. According to Paul, the Ten Commandments are spiritual, or
rather, of the Spirit. But Israel was carnal, sold under sin (held captive
by the law of sin and death Ro.7:14).
Paul went on to say, For I delight in the law of God after the inward
man. The inward man being the soul and/or spirit. But I see another
law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, (soul, heart,
spirit). And bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my
members. O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the
body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So
then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the
law of sin (Romans 7:22-25).
The Father has nailed the ordinances, found in the Mosaic Law, to
the cross (Colossians 2:14). But He is unchanging and so is His
standard of righteousness. These ordinances were nothing more than
methods by which Israel fulfilled obedience; and although the Father’s
methodology for fulfilling righteousness has changed, His standard of
righteousness has not.
The expectation of the Father is that His righteousness be fulfilled in
us. However, this is not all. There is so much more the Father desires
us to see here. When He refers to the law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus: the Father is not pointing to a list of rules, but is much rather
pointing to the law of His nature within us. This new law is the Law
of the Spirit of Life in Jesus Christ. It relates to and governs our life
in Christ.
Law can also be defined as the effect that a particular natural or
scientific phenomenon always occurs if certain conditions are present
(i.e. the law of gravity). This passage in Romans reveals that the law
of the Spirit of Life in Christ makes us free from sin. Wherever the
Spirit of Life dwells, that body is free from sin. It is impossible for the
motions of sin, which are by the Law of Sin and Death, to operate in
that flesh, where the Law of the Spirit of Life is present.