Living in the Spirit
That as sin hath reigned unto death,
even so might
Grace Reign
through
righteousness unto eternal life
by
Jesus Christ our Lord
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for
those who are in
Christ Jesus
For in Christ Jesus the law of the
Spirit of life set you
Free
from the law of sin and death
For what the law was powerless to do in
that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending
His own Son in the likeness of sinful man,
as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,…
John 8:32
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
John 8:36
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
Romans 6:14
For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
Romans 6:18
You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
Romans 6:22
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.
Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brothers, 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 to God.
Romans 7:21
So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
Romans 3:27
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
John 8:36
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Romans 8:10,11
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness…
John 4:10,14
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water…
John 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Romans 6:18,22
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness…
Psalm 51:12
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
John 8:32
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Romans 5:21
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 7:21,24,25
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me…
In Galatians 5:1,
Paul reminds the Galatian believers that
“it is for freedom that Christ has set us free.”
Believers’ sins are forgiven on the basis of Christ’s perfect sacrifice. Now believers can live in freedom from the law, and they can live in freedom from the consequences and power of sin. The NLT says,
“Christ has truly set us free”; believers are “truly free”
The occasion of Paul’s letter to the Galatians was that false teachers had come into the churches there. These teachers promoted legalism and tried to require Christians to observe the Old Testament rules, laws, and ceremonies, especially circumcision (Galatians 2:3–5). Paul, in no uncertain terms, says that “for freedom Christ has set us free” and that Christians should not be placed back under the law’s yoke of bondage (Galatians 5:1). The law’s purpose was to reveal our sinfulness (see Romans 3:20) and to bring us to Christ
(Galatians 3:24)
Before Christ’s sacrifice, we lived under bondage to the law (Galatians 4:3). We were burdened by demands we could not keep (Acts 15:10). Christ’s death and resurrection broke our bondage to the law. Jesus’ perfect life and holy sacrifice on the cross was the complete fulfillment of the law, and anyone who trusts in Him for salvation is made right with God.
Only Christians have true freedom from the law
John 8:36 confirms,
“If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”
“The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.
He did this so that the just requirement of the law would
be fully satisfied for us (Romans 8:3–4, NLT)