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Daily Bible Thought: Virgin's In Christ

Rom.7:2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. 7:3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

What is the power of the law? The power of the law is sin! Now stop and reason, what is the wages of sin? Death! It is only in this context we can comprehend the apostles Paul's words above.

1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

The law has no power over the dead, why? Simply, because, the dead have stop sinning, they no longer exist in sin, in the sinful flesh, they have paid the price for sin in the flesh, the debt has been paid off, hence, fulfilled by their death, satisfied by paying the amount due for sin. But still those wanting the vengeance of the law to continue on after death into the resurrection of the dead in a Spirit Kingdom, lusting for evil towards those who have done evil to them are not satisfied with the justice of God's righteous law.

James 4:11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. 4:12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

Romans 2:1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

Paul than takes it one-step further back into the flesh to help these brothers and sisters to understand what authority all law places over the living, but not the dead. Laws can only to evil or good, laws do not have feelings/emotions. Putting laws on paper in legal terms removes the feelings of those practicing the law. The law either, or convicts a person of breaking it, or keeping it, by unemotional words written on paper; the law may exonerate the person as right with the law, and/or righteous (this is where the meaning of the word righteous came from) with the law, or its convicts them without emotion, law has no feelings, it is blind to age, color, wealth, education, and so on . . .

2 Corinthians 3:3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

2 Corinthians 3:7 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which was passing away:

Romans 2:13 For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

Romans 3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

Paul ties his argument to a man headship over his wife, offense? Yes! In a world where men and woman no longer practice headship, where the woman's liberation movement has removed headship by laws from most materialistic societies on earth. Nevertheless, those claiming to be Christian's are still under a headship arrangement rather practiced or not. Subsequently, we must understand what headship is in its proper context for us to comprehend why Paul uses it? He used it, because the headship arrangement was the law of the husband over the woman, his laws were binding upon the woman just as God's laws were binding upon his wife Israel.

1 Peter 3:1 In like manner, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

1 Peter 3:5 For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

But if the law giver died, his rule of law died with him over his wife. Now God gave Israel the law, as their teacher, their head, because God created the law, and married the nation of Israel by a covenant, he put his headship over Israel. If they practice the laws of the nations, rejecting his laws, they rejected his headship. In other words, his headship did not end because Israel did not want it.

Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations.

Jeremiah 3:20 Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel, says Yahweh.

If Israel was unfaithful practicing other laws of the nations, and/or religion she was condemned by her husband's, and God's law as an adulterer, which means adding to the covenant of marriage with her rightful law giver and head, (meaning spiritual intercourse) in this case God and his law. Israel was bound by the husband until she died or God died.

James 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Revelation 14:4 These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

The problem was that those born again into Christ were adulterating themselves by placing themselves and newly converted members of the body of Christ back under the law given to Israel. The members of Christ must die in their flesh to be freed of the law of God. That is, to be put under a new law, a new covenant, a new headship, Christ, removing them from the old covenant with its law. Subsequently, that is why, the flesh for a Christian's is of no value at all, it is dead to God by being buried in Christ death. The law for sin holds no power over the dead in Christ any longer.

1Cor. 15:55 O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains? 15:56 The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:15:57 But praise be to God who gives us strength to overcome through our Lord Jesus Christ.

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

There are not two headships over Christian's without being unfaithful to their head Christ Jesus; to his rule of law, which astoundingly, is love! This is the context of one of the hardest chapters of the bible for us to understand, why? It is because Christian's are still in their flesh, but considered dead to the law, that is, to sin, while they wrestle in their flesh with sin. Unfortunately, the natural flow is to think with the power of the flesh. Now lets clarify, the power of the law is sin, and it is the most powerful tool ever created to expose sin in us. The deception for those walking in their flesh is to believe the law of God removes their sins from practicing it, by keeping, but it did not!

Hebrews 7:19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

1 Peter 3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The law did not remove sin at all, it exposed sin in us, it excite the sin in us by giving each one of us a magnifying glass to read it clearly. The clearer we could see it the greater its condemnation of us is, increasing its power of death over us. The law shut our mouths from swearing, or cursing to others publicly, but it did not stop or change our hearts into being a non-sinner. Thus, the law jailed a sinner from publicly acting wickedly, they could act like a non-sinner, but inwardly they continued in the truth of their own sinful hearts, hidding it from others by acts of eye service.

Rom.7:8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead. 7:9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
7:10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to

The law provided sinners with innocent blood to pay the price for the truth of our their real hearts condition before God in being a law breaker, and also for being a law breaker publicly, but the law could not remove sin it was only a temporary solution leading us to the real complete solution, the reality of God, Christ Jesus in complete forgiveness of sin once for all times, Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 9:22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

Hebrews 10:1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

Hebrews 9:26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Israel chose the law over Christ, they chose self-rightness over the truth of each person flesh. They would rather have the glory of men, the praise of men by acting righteous, than true righteousness found under Christ headship. Now many back then, as is true of today, are seeking the righteousness of the law thinking its strong measure make a person righteous if applied to the flesh. This thinking is adultery to the headship of Christ which freed us from the laws headship. These, falsely believe more is better in this case adding yeast, or two headship to the unleavened bread of God, Christ. It is rather a rejection of the atoning blood of Christ and God's great love in giving us his Son Christ Jesus, who by God's undeserved kindness removed our sins once for all time; for those who have died in Christ and been raised in him, and with him! This adding to the new covenant is like an unfaithful wife who thinks she can have two husbands; two headships, making her life better, by the power of two rules of law over her at the sametime!

Romans 7:6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

Romans 8:4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Romans 10:4 For Christ is the fulfillment{or, completion, or end} of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Galatians 2:16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

Galatians 2:18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

Galatians 2:19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

Galatians 2:21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

Galatians 5:4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

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