Our Daily Devotions As Our Daily Manna

WEDNESDAY, 26 APRIL 2023

TEXT: Romans 7:1-6

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.

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.

(New International Version Holy Bible)

TOPIC: WE HAVE BEEN FREED FROM THE LAW

Paul addressed the Jew who is proud of his salvation through the Law. Some of these Jews accepted Jesus Christ as their Saviour but were still clinging to the provisions of the Law as their source of salvation.

Paul used the analogy of the relationship between a husband and wife who are bound to each other as long as they are alive. But the moment one of them dies, the one alive is freed from that marriage and is free to remarry.

In the same manner, those who were under the Law were bound by the provisions of the Law but when they accepted Jesus Christ as their Saviour, they died to the Law just as the spouse who had died. Sin no longer has any power over them.

But there are many believers in the Church today who are still living strictly by the rules and regulations which they think are their way to salvation. Some hold on to church activities and programs. This is not wrong. But when these are considered as the sole means of righteousness while others are judged on the same basis, we have moved away from salvation by grace through faith to salvation by works.

QUESTION: If you are saved by grace through faith, why do you live as if your salvation depends on what you can do?

PRAYER: Thank You, Lord Jesus, for delivering me from the power of the Law to the freedom of life through Your death and resurrection. Amen.