Ye Should Be Married to Another (Romans 7:4)

2022-06-14

In Romans 7:1-6, our death with Christ is likened to a marriage. According to the Scriptures, the only thing that truly ends a marriage is death (Romans 7:3). However, if someone loses a spouse, the same can get remarried.

Before we knew Christ, we were bound to the Law of God found in the Old Testament, which could only condemn us. However, we were crucified with Christ, in which we truly died:

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. (Romans 7:4)

Our death ended our relationship to the Law. We are now raised with Christ and bound to Him. Instead of sin and condemnation which we knew from being bound to the Law, we are now bound to the Lord Jesus. We produce the fruit we never could being bound to the Law, because we are in Christ, and He is in us. He is the vine, and we are the branches. Our source of life is in Him. He produces what we cannot do on our own through trying to fulfill the Law.

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. (Romans 7:6)