Are you dead to the Law?

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Hello you and welcome.

According to Romans 7:4So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

Paul explains to the Romans and us today. That you brothers (believers - who are trusting in God and the Lord Jesus Christ)

You also were made dead to the law

Through the body of the Christ (Messiah) -> For you are becoming another's (Now being dead to the law -> moving into the body of Christ -> who out of the dead was raised up -> by the spirit given through the Lord Jesus Christ that is received from the Father, that we as believers may bear fruit.


Dead/The put to death -> 2289. thanatoó Usage: I put to death, subdue; pass: I am in danger of death, am dead to, am rid of, am parted from.

Law ->3551 nómoslaw. 3551 (nómos) is used of: a) the Law (Scripture), with emphasis on the first five books of Scripture; or b) any system of religious thinking (theology), especially when nomos occurs without the Greek definite article.​

Were you also to made dead to the law being made alive by God through Christ Jesus becoming part of the body of believers?

What is our identity is it of the flesh?

Is it in Lord Christ Jesus by the Spirit through Faith with God and trusting in them ( A new creation in Christ)?

What do you think about these things?

Do you believe these things?
Something that you may already know is that living according to The New Testament is impossible without Christ. When Christ Said “all that came before me are thieves and robbers, who do you think He was Speaking about?
John.10
  1. [8] All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
 
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Hello you and welcome.

According to Romans 7:4So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

Paul explains to the Romans and us today. That you brothers (believers - who are trusting in God and the Lord Jesus Christ)

You also were made dead to the law

Through the body of the Christ (Messiah) -> For you are becoming another's (Now being dead to the law -> moving into the body of Christ -> who out of the dead was raised up -> by the spirit given through the Lord Jesus Christ that is received from the Father, that we as believers may bear fruit.


Dead/The put to death -> 2289. thanatoó Usage: I put to death, subdue; pass: I am in danger of death, am dead to, am rid of, am parted from.

Law ->3551 nómoslaw. 3551 (nómos) is used of: a) the Law (Scripture), with emphasis on the first five books of Scripture; or b) any system of religious thinking (theology), especially when nomos occurs without the Greek definite article.​

Were you also to made dead to the law being made alive by God through Christ Jesus becoming part of the body of believers?

What is our identity is it of the flesh?

Is it in Lord Christ Jesus by the Spirit through Faith with God and trusting in them ( A new creation in Christ)?

What do you think about these things?

Do you believe these things?
Being dead to the Law means that we're no longer under the law but under grace: in communion with God rather than being apart from Him. The obligation to be righteous still remains but is accomplished the only right way now, by the Spirit.
"Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live." Rom 8:12-13
 
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People today sin for they are transgressing Christ's NT law. I sin when I transgess Christ's NT law. People, including myself, do not sin for failing to keep/transgressing the OT law and its requirments of circumcision, animal sacrifices, purifications, pilgrimages to Jerusalem, etc, etc.
Deuteronomy 5:2-3 the OT law of Moses beginning with the 10 commandments was never given to anyone to keep but the Hebrew people. I am not suppose to nor required to keep a law that was never given to me to keep nor can one bind a law upon me that was never given to me to keep. Judaizing teachers in the NT were trying to bind the OT law upon Gentile converts, (Acts of the Apostles 15:1-2) bind a law upon the Gentiles that was not given to the Gentiles to keep and these Judiazers were condemned for doing so and the Gentiles that went along with these false Judiazing teachers were also condemned.

There were laws given prior to Sinai. Do you think God one day just thought them up and gave them at Sinai? What laws are you saying are the NT laws? Are Yeshua's laws different than the Father's? A house divided can not stand. What is your definition of a Judaizer?
 
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Sin is obviously different between the covenants.

It says, “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:” (Galatians 3:13). At the cross (Provisional Atonement): Christ has already redeemed us of the Old Law already.

So according to you the definition of sin has changed? That sin is the transgression of the law is new testamental doctrine...

Being redeemed from the curse (death) does not destroy the law, otherwise you would not need grace.
 
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Being dead to the Law means that we're no longer under the law but under grace: in communion with God rather than being apart from Him. The obligation to be righteous still remains but is accomplished the only right way now, by the Spirit.
"Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live." Rom 8:12-13

You are no longer under it's curse (death) when you sin. Sin is the transgression of the law and the wages of sin is death.
 
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You are no longer under it's curse (death) when you sin. Sin is the transgression of the law and the wages of sin is death.
The reason we're no longer under its curse is because we're now finally enabled by the Spirit to be able to overcome the sin that earns us death. I'd read Rom 8:12-13 carefully, along with the rest of Romans while considering what Jesus tells the young ruler about the need to obey the commandments in Matt 19, the need for our righteousness to exceed that of the Pharisees and teachers of the law, which He didn't come to abolish, in Matt 5, or James ensuring us that what we do does, indeed, count. All of the New Testament ties together with itself completely along with the OT when understood in the light of knowing that the New Covenant still requires obedience from man, but the right way, now in partnership with God. Faith is the basis of that relationship.

“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people."
Jer 31:33

“…just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Rom 5:21

“For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.” Rom 6:6

“Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?” Rom 6:16

"And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit." Rom 8:3-4
 
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So according to you the definition of sin has changed?

Well, unless you oddly believe you are under the laws on the animal sacrifices and the priesthood, then also believe that sin has changed between the two covenants.

You said:
That sin is the transgression of the law is new testamental doctrine...

Right because we are New Testament or New Covenant believers. The Old Covenant was given to Israel and not the church. Read Acts of the Apostles 15:1, Acts of the Apostles 15:5, and Acts of the Apostles 15:24. Also see Acts of the Apostles 13:39. For if you were under the Old Covenant, and you were not circumcised you would be cut off from God's people and you would have broken God's covenant. For Genesis 17:14 says, “And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.” But under the New Covenant, Paul says this: “Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.” (Galatians 5:2).

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Being redeemed from the curse (death) does not destroy the law, otherwise you would not need grace.

Why was the Old Law a curse or death in the first place? It was because under the Old Law, if you did not keep certain Laws (within the 613 Laws of Moses), you could be stoned or put to death physically by God's people. This is not the case for the New Covenant. God has redeemed us from the curse or punishment (death) from the Old Law. Jesus became a curse for us (He died in our place) but this death can only be applied personally to our lives if we have the right kind of faith towards the Lord.

God's laws (New Testament Laws and not the 613 Laws of Moses) is what we must obey after we are saved by God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ as our Savior. If a believer stumbles into sin on rare occasion, they need to confess of their sins to the Lord Jesus Christ in order to maintain their forgiveness (salvation) with God (1 John 2:1, 1 John 1:9). This redemption in believing in Christ's death, burial, and resurrection and seeking forgiveness with the Lord Jesus is what will lead a believer to live righteously. For God's grace teaches us to deny ungodliness and that we should live righteously and godly in this present world (Titus 2:11-12). So yes. God's grace does uphold God's laws. It's just does not uplift the Old Law but it uplifts the New Law found in the New Testament from Jesus and His followers.
 
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Would agree that when a believer comes to Jesus Christ and listen to what he teaches, builds up the spirit with-in the believer to not do those things. If a believer does do whatever it is they read about that was talked and teaches by Christ, God deals with that person individually working on their heart.

They may feel and experience in their flesh of guilt, shame, or even sadness, however the believer should be encouraged and brought to realization that even in our mistakes we are forgiven, and the reason our flesh feel the shame, guilt, or sadness is because of us focusing on what we did wrong.

The only way to correct what was done wrong it to bring forth the problem to God, to help the person in their heart, by the spirit to overcome whatever has happened, be whatever it is the Christian has done.

To continue in their faith and looking towards the Lord Jesus Christ for reassurance that He still does love you, and forgives you, and that it is okay to make mistakes we will be doing it for the rest of our lives.

However by the spirit of Christ with-in that ability to be mean to a person, or whatever is changed into forgiving, looking towards peace, and being more kind, to others.

What do you think about these things?
When Jesus stopped me from committing suicide in 1982, I quit drinking alcohol for years. I quit smoking and using drugs too. Forgiveness is when you do something right. The wise man built on a good foundation. His work will last.
 
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Well, unless you oddly believe you are under the laws on the animal sacrifices and the priesthood, then also believe that sin has changed between the two covenants.

Why was the Old Law a curse or death in the first place? It was because under the Old Law, if you did not keep certain Laws (within the 613 Laws of Moses), you could be stoned or put to death physically by God's people. This is not the case for the New Covenant. God has redeemed us from the curse or punishment (death) from the Old Law. Jesus became a curse for us (He died in our place) but this death can only be applied personally to our lives if we have the right kind of faith towards the Lord.

God's grace does uphold God's laws. It's just does not uplift the Old Law but it uplifts the New Law found in the New Testament from Jesus and His followers.

No one is, there is no Temple. That has nothing to do with sin being the transgression of the law. No, the curse entered because of Adam's sin. Yeshua, the 2nd Adam, reversed it. We now can have eternal life. What is the "new" law? If there is no law then no sin and no need for grace.
 
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No one is, there is no Temple.

But if there was a Jewish temple built, would you then reinstitute the temple sacrifices again?
Do you not know that the temple veil was torn from top to bottom according to the Scriptures?
This lets us know that the Laws of the OT priesthood and it's sacrifices had ended.

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That has nothing to do with sin being the transgression of the law. No, the curse entered because of Adam's sin. Yeshua, the 2nd Adam, reversed it. We now can have eternal life.

I am not denying that Adam's sin brought a curse (death). But the Law of Moses did focus on bringing death (the death penalty) for breaking it's laws (Which is an obvious curse). The context of Galatians 3 is in reference to the Law being the Old Testament Law of Moses.

“And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.” (Galatians 3:17).

What law existed 400 years after the Promise of Abraham?

It would be the Law of Moses. So the context of the word “law” spoken of in Galatians 3 is the 613 Laws of Moses. Paul is not referring to the laws that come from Jesus and His followers.

You said:
What is the "new" law?

The New Law are all the New Testament commands given to us by Jesus and His followers. These laws are found in the pages of the New Testament. For example: We should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment (1 John 3:23). This is a New Testament command (a New Law). It is to believe on the name of the Son of Jesus Christ, and to love one another. Jesus said, “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” (John 13:34). So John 13:34 is a NEW commandment. It's a New Law. It's not a part of the Old Law. It's a part of the New Covenant teachings given to us by the Lord Jesus Christ.

So in summary:

#1. To believe in Jesus and to love one another is a New Testament Command.
#2. To love one another as Christ has loved the disciples is another New Testament Command.​

These are not Old Covenant commands. They are a part of the New Law or New way. But we know that initially after a person tastes of new wine, they will say the old is better.

You said:
If there is no law then no sin and no need for grace.

Not sure how you understood me as saying.... “there are no more laws of God anymore.” Perish the thought. I believe the laws that we are to follow are the commands that come from Jesus and His followers. I said this before, so I am not sure why you believe otherwise. After we are saved by God's grace (Ephesians 2:8-9) (Romans 4:3-5) (Titus 3:5), I believe we must keep God's laws as a part of eternal life (Matthew 19:17) (Luke 10:25-28) (Revelation 22:14-15 KJB).
 
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I feel that Yeshua taught that the "Law" lead to death and that the "Spirit "gave "Life". Paul only conforms this. He rebuked the religious leaders of the time for their pernickityness over the "Law". The G-d's Law was intended aid life in the Spirit not be a burden around ones neck. After all the whole law is love G-d and love your neighbour (everyone, even your enemies) as yourself.

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But if there was a Jewish temple built, would you then reinstitute the temple sacrifices again? Do you not know that the temple veil was torn from top to bottom according to the Scriptures? This lets us know that the Laws of the OT priesthood and it's sacrifices had ended.

I am not denying that Adam's sin brought a curse (death). But the Law of Moses did focus on bringing death (the death penalty) for breaking it's laws (Which is an obvious curse). The context of Galatians 3 is in reference to the Law being the Old Testament Law of Moses.

The New Law are all the New Testament commands given to us by Jesus and His followers. These laws are found in the pages of the New Testament. For example: We should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment (1 John 3:23). This is a New Testament command (a New Law). It is to believe on the name of the Son of Jesus Christ, and to love one another. Jesus said, “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” (John 13:34). So John 13:34 is a NEW commandment. It's a New Law. It's not a part of the Old Law. It's a part of the New Covenant teachings given to us by the Lord Jesus Christ.

So in summary:

#1. To believe in Jesus and to love one another is a New Testament Command.
#2. To love one another as Christ has loved the disciples is another New Testament Command.​

After we are saved by God's grace (Ephesians 2:8-9) (Romans 4:3-5) (Titus 3:5), I believe we must keep God's laws as a part of eternal life (Matthew 19:17) (Luke 10:25-28) (Revelation 22:14-15 KJB).

I don't have control over if there is a new Temple or not. BTW, the same thing happened after the first Temple was destroyed. There was no Temple or priesthood. Yet laws were still kept, even in the time of Yeshua and afterwards. Any death sentence was given through Judges or Sanhedrin, same as our courts today. Love God and love your neighbor are laws from the Torah.
 
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Dear ones,
Let us consider what we have heard:

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. -Romans 7:21

For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, -Romans 7:22

but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. -Romans 7:23

When apostle Paul found the law —as written in Roman 7:21– that he wanted to do right — that law is the law of God that he spoke of in Roman 7:22.
 
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Dear ones,
Let us consider what we have heard:

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. -Romans 7:21

For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, -Romans 7:22

but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. -Romans 7:23

When apostle Paul found the law —as written in Roman 7:21– that he wanted to do right — that law is the law of God that he spoke of in Roman 7:22.

When apostle Paul have the law of God on his mind, that is, the law of his mind that he talked about in Roman 7:23

When apostle have the law of God on his mind, we can consider what we heard in Hebrews 4:12, that said:

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul (mind ) and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. -Hebrews 4:12

For apostle Paul said in Roman 7:24

but I see in my members ANOTHER LAW waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive TO LAW OF SIN that dwells in my members. -Romans 7:23

So we can consider that apostle Paul see or perceived in members of his body ANOTHER LAW waging against the law of God that is on his mind ! That another law is THE LAW OF SIN !

That is why apostle Paul have said this in Roman 7:25

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve THE LAW OF SIN. -Romans 7:25

Therefore, we consider that spiritual warfare between THE LAW OF GOD and THE LAW OF SIN happen in the MIND.

Likewise, we have heard this :
For those who live according to the flesh set their MINDS on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their MINDS on the things of the Spirit. -Romans 8:5

So now, let us consider what our Lord have said :
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. -Matthew 5:17

So our Lord told us NOT TO THINK that He has come to abolish the law of God, that He spoke through Moses but He has come to fulfill them.

Let us also consider this that we have heard:

They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain." -Hebrews 8:5

But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. -Hebrews 8:6

For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. -Hebrews 8:7

In speaking of a new covenant, He makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. -Hebrews 8:13

So Christ makes the first covenant obsolete.
but Christ does not make the law of God obsolete.


That is why we heard this :
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you FREE in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. -Romans 8:2

By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.-Romans 8:3-4

So we can consider that the righteous law is the law of God, that is, the law of Spirit of life.

Likewise, we heard:
We know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. -Romans 6:6
For one who has died has been set free from sin. -Romans 6:7

So when we were buried with Christ through baptism into death — WE DIED TO SIN OR THE LAW OF SIN !

So what we should consider:
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. -Romans 6:11

SO WE MUST CONSIDER OURSELVES DEAD TO THE LAW OF SIN AND ALIVE TO GOD IN CHRIST JESUS.
AMEN
 
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Threads like this go back and forth between not being under the law but also keeping the law, as in you don't get to live like a heathen when you're a disciple of Christ.

Probably most of those advocating the law don't mean the whole law. They probably don't have the 613 of them memorized. They probably only know the top 10 and maybe a few others.

Probably most of those who say we're not under the law any longer, are not saying we are free to break the top 10 laws and other obvious moral laws that even humanistic law and morality upholds.
 
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I don't have control over if there is a new Temple or not. BTW, the same thing happened after the first Temple was destroyed. There was no Temple or priesthood. Yet laws were still kept, even in the time of Yeshua and afterwards. Any death sentence was given through Judges or Sanhedrin, same as our courts today. Love God and love your neighbor are laws from the Torah.

You are the first Christian I ran into who believes in keeping all of the Old Law (Which I doubt anyone today keeps). All I can say that such a profession is crazy and it goes against what the apostle Paul preached in many places. It even goes against what we read in the book of Acts, as well. For what do you make of Acts of the Apostles 15:1, Acts of the Apostles 15:5, Acts of the Apostles 15:24, and Acts of the Apostles 13:39?
 
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I feel that Yeshua taught that the "Law" lead to death and that the "Spirit "gave "Life". Paul only conforms this. He rebuked the religious leaders of the time for their pernickityness over the "Law". The G-d's Law was intended aid life in the Spirit not be a burden around ones neck. After all the whole law is love G-d and love your neighbour (everyone, even your enemies) as yourself.

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Hebrews 7:12 says the Law has changed and it does not say that God's laws are erased. Just read your New Testament more closely, my friend. For if you do, you will find that it is full of lots of laws or commands. Here are a list of...

New Testament Commands That Are Called A Command:

  1. “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength: this is the first commandment.” (Mark 12:29-30 gives us the full complete description of the 1st commandment in the Bible).

  2. “And the second is like, namely this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:31).

  3. And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. (1 John 3:23).

  4. “Repent” (i.e. Seek forgiveness with the Lord Jesus Christ) (Acts of the Apostles 17:30 says, “God… now commands all men everywhere to repent”).

  5. A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if you have love one to another (John 13:34-35).

  6. “Watch” (“For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. Watch you therefore: for you know not when the Master of the house comes,...” - See: Mark 13:33-37).

  7. “Honor your father and mother” (God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother - Matthew 15:4, Matthew 19:19, Mark 10:19, Luke 18:20) (Ephesians 6:2-3 says “Honour your father and mother (which is the first commandment attached with a promise).

  8. Tell the women to keep silent in the churches. For it is not permitted unto them to speak, but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also says the law; And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is a shame for women to speak in the church (1 Corinthians 14:34-35).

  9. Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks disorderly (2 Thessalonians 3:6).

  10. Keep the following commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ: Fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold on eternal life, whereby you are called, and have professed a good profession before many witnesses (1 Timothy 6:12-14).

  11. Keep the commandments (Matthew 19:17) (Note: The young rich ruler asked, which ones (i.e. which commands should he keep); Jesus replied, “Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” (Matthew 19:18-19) (Jesus also said as a part of these commands, “If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor,” - Matthew 19:21).
 
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Dear ones,
Let us consider what we have heard:

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. -Romans 7:21

For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, -Romans 7:22

but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. -Romans 7:23

When apostle Paul found the law —as written in Roman 7:21– that he wanted to do right — that law is the law of God that he spoke of in Roman 7:22.

In Romans 7:14-24, Paul is recounting his past experience as a Pharisee before he became a Christian. Paul (Saul) is describing his experience of what it is like to struggle in keeping the Old Covenant Law that did not include Jesus Christ.

It is true that the use of first-person present verbs in the passage (“I am” “I practice” “I want” “I hate” “I do”) sounds like Paul is talking about his present experience. But Paul sometimes uses “I” in a rhetorical sense to describe generic experience rather than his own present experience (1 Corinthians 10:30; 1 Corinthians 13:2-3, 1 Corinthians 13:11). In at least one other place, Paul uses a first-person present verb to describe his opponents’ experience (Galatians 2:18).

Romans 7:25 is a verse that transitions back to the present day reality as Paul being a Christian. He is thankful that he now has victory in Jesus Christ His Lord who can deliver him from his body of death (Which was a problem before). Otherwise why is Paul thanking Jesus?

Paul asks the question in verse 24.

Who shall deliver me from this body of death?

I like how the Good News Translation answers this question. It says,

"Thanks be to God, who does this through our Lord Jesus Christ! This, then, is my condition: on my own I can serve God's law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin." (Romans 7:25 GNT).

The NTE says,

"...So then, left to my own self I am enslaved to God’s law with my mind, but to sin’s law with my human flesh." (Romans 7:25 NTE).

But Romans 13:14 says,
"But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof."

Paul says in 2 Corinthians 7:1, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God. So if you hold to the popular sin and still be saved interpretation on Romans 7:14-24, you have a contradiction in your Bible.
 
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For apostle Paul said in Roman 7:24

but I see in my members ANOTHER LAW waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive TO LAW OF SIN that dwells in my members. -Romans 7:23

So we can consider that apostle Paul see or perceived in members of his body ANOTHER LAW waging against the law of God that is on his mind ! That another law is THE LAW OF SIN !

That is why apostle Paul have said this in Roman 7:25

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve THE LAW OF SIN. -Romans 7:25

Therefore, we consider that spiritual warfare between THE LAW OF GOD and THE LAW OF SIN happen in the MIND.

Yes, the topic of conversation in Romans 7 is the Old Law, but this is Paul speaking from his perspective as a Pharisee (When he did not know Jesus Christ). The clue to understanding that we are not under the Old Law is found in many passages.

Here are a list of verses showing us the Old Law is no more:

"When God speaks of a "new" covenant, it means he has made the first one obsolete. It is now out of date and will soon disappear." (Hebrews 8:13) (NLT).

”Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.” (Romans 7:4).

"But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." (Romans 7:6).

"Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;" (Colossians 2:14).

20 "Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22 Which all are to perish with the using; ) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh."
(Colossians 2:20-23).

“By abolishing in His [own crucified] flesh the enmity [caused by] the Law with its decrees and ordinances [which He annulled]; that He from the two might create in Himself one new man [one new quality of humanity out of the two], so making peace.” (Ephesians 2:15) (AMPC).

"The old [former] rule [commandment; regulation] is now set aside [nullified; abolished], because it was weak and useless [ineffective]." (Hebrews 7:18) (EXB).

9 “Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.” (Hebrews 9:9-10).

16 “For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.” (Hebrews 9:16-17).

”And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament…” (Hebrews 9:15).

27 “And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” (Matthew 26:27-28).

50 “Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; “ (Matthew 27:20-51).

8 “Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.” (Hebrews 10:8-9).

“And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.” (Acts of the Apostles 15:1).

“But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.” (Acts of the Apostles 15:5).

“Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment” (Acts of the Apostles 15:24).

28 "For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well." (Acts of the Apostles 15:28-29).

7 "But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious." (2 Corinthians 3:7-11).

“But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.” (2 Corinthians 3:14).​

The Old Covenant says this about circumcision:

"And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant." (Genesis 17:14).​

Yet, the New Covenant says this about circumcision:

"Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing." (Galatians 5:2).​

The Old Covenant says this about the Sabbath:

32 "And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
35 And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses." (Numbers 15:32-36).​

Yet, the New Covenant says this about the Sabbath:

"Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:" (Colossians 2:16).​

So it appears things have changed.

This makes sense because Hebrews 7:12 says the Law has changed.

"For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law." (Hebrews 7:12).

“For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” (John 1:17).​

In conclusion:

You sort of have to look at the Old Covenant (Old Testament) as one contract, and the New Covenant (New Testament) as another contract. It's kind of like a contract when you buy a house. If you did not like certain things in the contract, you could ask them to make some changes in the contract. If they agreed to the changes, you would then go by the new contract, and the old contract for the house would be discarded. There may be some similar things between the old contract, and the new contract, but you stick with the new contract in your dealing with buying the house. Meaning: This is why we seek to follow the New Covenant (New Testament) primarily even though there are certain laws that have carried over from the Old Covenant (Old Testament). We are clearly not under the 613 Laws of Moses as a whole or package deal. We follow the commands that come from Jesus and His followers.
 
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Likewise, we have heard this :
For those who live according to the flesh set their MINDS on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their MINDS on the things of the Spirit. -Romans 8:5

Behold. Romans 7:4-6. It says:

4 “Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.” (Romans 7:4-6).​

Paul says we are dead to the Law by the body of Christ in Romans 7:4.
In Romans 7:5, Paul gives a brief summary and then he defines in more detail what is going on in Romans 7:14-24. In Romans 7:5 Paul says that the (Old) Law brought forth fruit unto death. Paul makes it clear in Romans 7:6 that we are delivered from the Old Law and we are to serve in newness of Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. The oldness of the letter is the Torah or the 613 Laws of Moses. We are not to serve in the way of the Law of Moses anymore. For the Law came by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ (John 1:17). This does not mean there is no more Law under the New Covenant. Perish the thought. We Christians must obey God's laws that come from Jesus and His apostles. For Jesus agreed with the lawyer that to love God and to love your neighbor (Which are commands) is a part of inheriting eternal life (Luke 10:25-28). So after we are saved by God's grace, we have to obey God's commands. It's just that they are the commands in the New Testament from Jesus and His followers. Most today misunderstand Paul or they intentionally change his words to turn God's grace into a license for immorality in some way. But it is equally just as bad to go back to the Old Law and say we are under it. For both views are a form of doing things their own way and not God's way.

Also, when you read Romans 8:5, we also have to read Romans 8:3-4.

It says:

“For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” (Romans 8:3-4).​

Notice verse 4. It says that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us. This again is in context to serving in newness of Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter (Romans 7:6). So what is the “righteousness of the Law” (or righteous aspect of the Old Law)?

It's loving your neighbor. For if we love our neighbor we will fulfill the Old Law.

8 “Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.” (Romans 13:8-10).​

This is why Ebionites (Paul rejecting type Christians) exist. They know full well what Paul was saying and thus they reject Paul as an apostle. Why? Because they want to keep the Old Law (Which runs contrary to Scripture). They want to do things their way, and not God's way.

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