Introduction: So far, we have learned that in Christ the of sin is paid, the of sin is broken and one day we will be delivered from the of sin in Heaven. In ch.6 Paul used a slave-master analogy to describe how our bondage to sin has been broken and why we should now serve the Lord. In ch.7 Paul is going to continue the same argument but with a different analogy. He also shifts from in 6 to the in 7. 1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? 2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. • Apart from you cannot legitimately be joined to another. • Paul uses this analogy to show us that God did not break any laws to us. 4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. • Having died, we were legitimately able to become the of Christ. • This marriage can never be because neither Christ nor we can die again. • The purpose of this union, is to bear to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. • In the flesh is the opposite of being in the which is our new state in Christ. • How did John Bunyan describe sin/law/gospel with dust/broom/water? 6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. • The call of this new marriage is a life of not sin. • Before, we learned our obedience is done for and not . • Here he says our service is not by the but by the . • What is the difference in living by the letter and living by the Spirit? • What does the Spirit do that the law could not?