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Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

It is not strange that Paul uses the idea of sin passions being excited by the Law when he had just considered the subject of adultery above?

Fittingly the excitement of the flesh in adultery is the equal to those is Christ Jesus denying their headship and consorting once again in the Old Law. The Law excites the nature of our sinful flesh by bring it into the light of Law. Only creating more sin in our members by exposing them to the judgment of the Law.

Returning too the headship of the Law denying Christ headship after being set free from the Law makes us illegitimate to both headships, we are better off not being born again by Holy Spirit into Christ Jesus.

Paul further make his point of a body dying through infect members, that is, the fleshly body dies when part of it is infects with a sickness. The whole body can die from one little part that is diseased, and spreading it to the rest of its members.

In this case a little leaven of the sins under Law ferments the whole body of Christ Jesus, how? As Paul just stated, the Law exposes and produce sin in us, thus, sin produces death. Moreover, the wages of sin is death. The fruit of the tree of Law are death, the fruit of Christ Jesus and the Spirit is life; one is darkness, and the other light, but the two cannot mixes without adulterating both.

Sin is dead in the body of Christ put to death by our being buried in Christ at our new birth, were sin in once again excited we find the power of the Old Law.

Rom. 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.

We are discharged from the power of the Law in Christ Jesus, we are no longer under the Laws headship. Although the headship is good and righteous it never the less produce death in us. So as much as we love the Law of God we cannot be joined too it in life, we can only be condemned by its power under death.

We have been joined to another headship into life because our Master and Lord Christ Jesus is life; we become one with him; receiving his life in us. Our life is new with a new spirit of love, not the old letter of the Law producing death in our members; but rather a new spirit of freedom in Christ Jesus under the New Covenant of Love; a new marriage covenant with God’s love; freeing us from the harsh demands of the Old Law headship into freedom of life.

Thus, we are discharged from the power of the Law; what is its power? Exposing sins, producing death. We are discharged from our sin, into life, how? We have paid the price of sin death, in the free gift of Christ Jesus life. In other words, we were placed into Christ Jesus as body parts; one with him; receiving his death and life as one because we are part of his body. We are bought and paid for by his blood, he is our head, we do his will, no longer the will of the Laws headship producing in us sin and death.

We have left the tutorship of Law headship becoming one spirit in marriage to Christ Jesus, we no longer one flesh with the Old Law of the flesh producing death in us.

Galatians 3:24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Galatians 3:25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.