Not Subject to the Law - Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Law in general; the indirect approach; marriage as a picture of the unbeliever's relationship to the Law; four reasons for choosing this illustration; the nature of our death to the Law.



Not Subject to the Law - Martyn Lloyd-Jones



Romans 7:1 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.