Relating to God's Law

Willetton Christian Church

This weekend we resume our series on the book of Romans after a three-week break. We will be looking at Romans 7:1-25, which is about our relationship to God’s law. We are no longer bound by God’s law because we have died to God’s law in Christ. However, this doesn’t mean that the law is no longer applicable to us. In the first place, the law was given to reveal our sin. Sin being sin, used the law to entice and deceive us to sin. The giving and enforcing of God’s law in the Old Testament did not ensure righteousness. This means that true righteousness is more than mere behaviour as it starts from within our hearts. This also shows that God’s law itself does not guarantee nor produce righteousness in us, because ultimately, we need a change in our hearts. We still need God to save and deliver us through Christ! “Thanks be to God, who delivers [us] through Jesus Christ our Lord!” (v25)