DELIVERED FROM A ZOMBIE MARRIAGE
Romans 7.1-6
Romans: Redeemed To Flourish – Part 5 of 14
THE LOVE OF A CHRISTIAN’S LIFE …
IS ESTABLISHED BY A Living Marriage
v. 1 “… do you not know, brothers … that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?” (esv)
v. 2 “… a married woman … if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.” (esv)
v. 3 “… she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.” (esv)
v. 4 “Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law …” (esv)
Matthew 22.37–38 “Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.’” (niv)
v. 5 “… while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.” (esv)
Psalm 27.4 “One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD …” (esv)
Psalm 16.11 “You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” (esv)
v. 4 “… you … died … through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.” (niv)
IS MOTIVATED BY Divine Enjoyment
v. 6 “But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.” (niv)
Galatians 5.22–23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love … against such things there is no law.” (esv)