Sin is a master of laws. We know because the bible says so in many ways. Sin has the ability to make you do the exact opposite of what a law says. Sin can use a law like 'Thou shall not covet' to produce every covetous thought in you.
"For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”[b] 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting." Romans 7:7-8
Sin is a task master who chains his slaves with the chain around their necks. That chain is the law.
Without this chain, sin has no power. Sin is deceptive. It can twist just about anything in the law to drive you to do its bidding.
The chain of the law is synonymous to the law marriage. That is the analogy that Paul uses to describe our relationship with sin in Romans 7
"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." Romans 7:2-3
Marriage is for life! One can only be released from such a relationship by death, then re-marriage can be considered. But while both spouses are alive, then the marriage is valid.
We find ourselves helplessly bound to sin even without our will because of a very powerful law. The law binds us to sin and sin to us. The only way out is death.Whose death? Sin's death? No, yours! The chain of the law loses its grip on you upon proof of your death. In Christ we hold our death certificate that nullifies every covenant whose validity ends with our life's end. We were baptized into Christ's death and thus became partakers of His death. We died to sin. How? We were baptized into him. and so? We were baptized into his death!
"What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life." Romans 6:1-4
Thank God, that in Christ, we have that escape!
God bound us into Christ."The death He died, He died to sin" Romans 6:10
When God put us in Christ, it was for our deliverance that what Christ experienced became our history. The events that have happened in the past in our lives are valid and cannot be disputed. When God placed us in Christ, He made us partakers of an event that is as much valid as the day when I went to school for the first time. It became historically true for us. By faith, it is grafted into a node in our past. The character and the DNA of that event in our past is sucked into our present where it bears fruit.
Jesus can say, on such and such a day I was crucified and died. On such and such a day, I was resurrected from the dead. The word of God tells us that we, too, can say that 'When Christ died, I died because I was in Him when he died'
6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin. Romans 6:6-7
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