75 Bible Questions - 37

Romans 8:2  “For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.”

Now that we as Christians are dead to sin (for further understanding on "dead to sin," read previous posts), we are no longer under the Old Covenant laws because we are under God's grace, for sin was manifested through the law.

Many will argue this and say that without the law there is no knowledge of right or wrong or of a higher standard Christians should have in life but I say that the opposite is true, that under grace we are filled with the Holly Spirit that guides into all truth.

James 4:17 “So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.”

We will never blatantly sin without knowing it, we might deceive ourselves into thinking we are not sinning but inside the Spirit has warned us and we do know, no matter how 'small' the sin may be.

Romans 6:6-11  “We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.  For one who has died has been set free from sin.  Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.  We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.  For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.  So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.”

Romans 5:13  “For sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.”

Romans 8:3  “For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,”

Romans 7:8  “But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.”

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

John 16:13  “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.”