Romans 7: 1-6

(Romans 7: 1-6)

『Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?  For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.  Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.  But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 』

 

When we say "Saints believe in Jesus", we believe that the saints die with Jesus, who died on the cross, and are resurrected together. In Matthew 16:24, ``Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. This is not to say that the saints must endure and endure some difficult suffering in the world, but to believe in the world that they have become dead to the law.

 

『Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? 』The dead are not subject to the law. That means you have to die. In Romans 6:7, "For he that is dead is freed from sin. 』. The apostle Paul explains the law through marital relations. When a husband is alive, the Bible says that when a wife goes to another man, it becomes vagina. His husband means the law, and the other man means the Holy Spirit. The explanation is that he commits spiritual adultery because he says he follows the Holy Spirit without even dying to the law.

 

『Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God 』Those whom Paul calls brothers are those who are in Christ. Those who are in Christ are slain to the law. Those who are dead to the law become living to God. In Galatians 6:14, “But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. 』He who is alive to God becomes dead to the world, so he becomes a person who has nothing to do with the world.

 

『For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. 』God gave the law to the Israelites to let them know that they are departed from God, to realize that they are sinners who cannot obey the law through that law, and to look to Christ who will come. In other words, they should not be fools who think that if they keep the law well, they can attain righteousness. The lust of sin is not manifested because of the law, but the lust of sin is in the flesh, and it is manifested through the law. In other words, sin does not occur because of breaking the law. Originally, there is greed.

 

The law tells us that before the law we were already sinners from God. When it comes to making us realize that sin is revealed by the law, and that we are in the face of death, Paul expresses "they brought fruit." When we realized, we were fruitful. Those who are in Jesus Christ are dead to the law. So, the saints deviated from the law. So, believers do not serve God with the law, but become those who serve God with the spirit. Did Jesus Christ Must Die on the Cross? We can ask these questions. It was the flesh that Jesus died. The phrase "the flesh is dying" means that the tent house on the earth will fall. In 2 Corinthians 5:1, "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 』

 

Here, we need to think about when we wore the tent house of the earth. This is what God shows to all humans in Genesis 2:7. Although we are born of our parents, we are ultimately an extension of Genesis 2:7: "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 』

 

In 1 Corinthians 15:22, “as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 』Adam is the image (model) of Christ. Representation means the same thing. To understand 15:22, we must first understand 15:45: "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 』

 

15:22 and 15:45 are the same thing: ``In Christ all men will have life'' and ``The last Adam has become a life-giving spirit'' To gain life means that the spirit lived. So, through 『all people died in Adam』 and 『the first man Adam became a living soul』, living creatures mean 『every man died』. In other words, the spirit died and was born into a soul. To put on the tent house of the flesh means that the spirit is dead.

 

“In Adam” and “In Christ” in 1 Corinthians 15:22 have important meanings. In Romans 5:14, ``Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. 』

So, in Adam, the spirits enter the world, and in Christ the spirits return to the kingdom of God. The first Adam gives the spirits the body of the flesh (the house of the tent of the flesh), and the last Adam gives the spirits the body of the spirit. When the spirits put on the physical tent house, the spirit dies. However, when the spirits take off the house of the physical tent and put on the body of the spirit, the spirit is revived. In 1 Corinthians 15:44, "It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 』

 

Why did Adam eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil from Eve? 『And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. "Gave also unto her husband with her" here does not mean to give one fruit. Women are members of the kingdom of God. Adam is the image of Christ. It is confession that the members ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. In other words, he confessed to Christ that he decided to leave God and achieve righteousness for himself.

 

Christ promises, "Through me, angels will descend, and through me will ascend." That the husband ate contains the meaning of this promise. Since the husband ate, he was first born into the world as a body of sin, and made the body of all the spirits that follow him, and the last Adam made a spirit body for all the repentant spirits and took them back to where they were. In 1 Timothy 2:14, "And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. 』

Adam was not deceived. People of the world say that Adam is the cause of sin. However, the first man, Adam, was the one who had the body of sin (born). The last Adam was the one who carried the body of sin (the one who died). The reason Jesus had to die on the cross was to carry the body of sin. In Philippians 2:7-8, ``But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 』

 

In Malachi 2:15, "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 』God made only one, he said, that he wanted to have godly offspring. This is to explain that all the spirits who wanted to leave God were sent in Adam, and likewise, through Christ, the spirits returned to the kingdom of God. So, after God made Adam and separated Eve from Adam, He said. In Genesis 2:24, Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. It is saying that a man (Adam: the symbol of Christ) should leave his parents (God) and become one body with his wife (guilty spirits). Similarly, the apostle Paul said in Ephesians 5:31-32, "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 』. Church means spirit. God says to be one.

 

In Galatians 4:4-5, ``But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. That is, the words of Ephesians 5:31-32 are made of the words of Galatians 4:4-5. In the first man Adam, all sinful spirits are born into the world, and through the last Adam, sinners are made sons of God. Jesus' death is redemption from the law, death on the cross. This is what God predestined before creation.
Jesus says in 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. 』.

Christ saves the dead spirits. In 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 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 』

The physical body dies and is reborn as the spirit body. Only when you are united with Jesus, who died on the cross, the body dies and is born again into the body of the spirit. This is the word of truth. Romans 8:3-4 says, "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. : That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 』