Released From the Law – Bound to Christ

Released From the Law, Bound to Christ (NIV)

7 Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? ² For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. ³ So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man. ⁴ So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law 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 for God.⁵ For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. 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.

Tomorrow night at Amana Christian Fellowship I am filling in for our Pastor. He is doing a word-by-word study of Romans. Our Wednesday night meeting is School of the Bible. However, we are moving to a Wednesday Night Live service on the first of December. I won’t try to do a word-by-word study. Pastor Jason is better at that. I will be discussing the topic, leading some prayer and praise as a preview of what Wednesday nights will be like starting in December.

I could really use some support. We start at 7. The Church is in Maurice just seven minutes south of the mall. I promise to have  you out by 8. On the day after the election, you could probably use some release from the law and binding to Christ, in addition to great fellowship.

Hope to see you then.