Jethro Bodine
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No. The law can only make that demand on unbelievers, those still married to 'husband' flesh. "(T)he law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives." (Romans 7:1 NIV). But you are saying the law has authority to bind together sin and those who's sin nature has died in Christ.Thank you Deb. This is exaclty what Paul is teaching!
That the written code excites the flesh, and gives it power over the spirit and soul of a believer.
The law is the legal authority that binds un-crucified, sinful flesh and unbeliever together like in a marriage, not those who have been set free from husband flesh through the death of husband flesh on the cross. 'Flesh' is dead. The law has no more authority to keep us bound to a husband who has died. Read the WHOLE passage in Romans. Don't just lift out a single verse or two. I challenge you to show me Paul is not saying this in ALL the verses of Romans 7. I posted ALL of what he's actually saying.
Believers are the ones who are no longer married to, and therefore in submission to, sinful flesh anymore, because sinful flesh has died on the cross. You can NOT be held in a submissive relationship to someone who has died. That's the power, the truth, that we remember whenever 'flesh' deceives us into thinking he's still alive and in charge and able to dictate our submission to him, like in a marriage.Its like having a broken arm, if one goes to sleep the pain of that broken bone is not felt, or is not a conscience emotion.
But the law comes and twist that broken arm, and makes that pain exceeding painful.
Thus we are told to "reckon" ourselves dead to the law and alive to God in Spirit.
I challenge you to read Romans 7 carefully and thoughtfully and see that that is what Paul is teaching there. Only people who's flesh is still alive and un-crucified in Christ (aka, unbelievers) HAVE to be subject to the dictates of the law that bind it to the demands of 'husband' flesh.