You did the easy part by replying with a resounding yes (which is interesting), but now do the hard part and explain the following passage and how it applies to our lives today...
Do you not know, brethren—for I am speaking to men who are acquainted with the Law (that would be you and JaumeJ)—that legal claims have power over a person only for as long as he is alive?
2 For [instance] a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies, she is loosed and discharged from the law concerning her husband.
3 Accordingly, she will be held an adulteress if she unites herself to another man while her husband lives. But if her husband dies, the marriage law no longer is binding on her [she is free from that law]; and if she unites herself to another man, she is not an adulteress.
4 Likewise, my brethren, you have undergone death as to the Law through the [crucified] body of Christ, so that now you may belong to Another, to Him Who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.
5 When we were living in the flesh (mere physical lives), the sinful passions that were awakened and aroused up by the Law were constantly operating in our natural powers (in our bodily organs, in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh), so that we bore fruit for death.
6 But now we are discharged from the Law and have terminated all intercourse with it, having died to what once restrained and held us captive. So now we serve not under [obedience to] the old code of written regulations, but [under obedience to the promptings] of the Spirit in newness [of life].
Does this passage mean that we are dead to the law by the body of Christ and are free to be married to another, the resurrected Christ?
Well the very first verse says the Law has dominion over a man as long as he lives. Then it says that a woman married to a man is not free to marry or consort with another man. Now if that man dies, she is free to marry another.
Do you think the symbolism escapes me here?
Eph 5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Now until we put the old man to death...
Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Rom 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Rom 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Rom 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Rom 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
We are dead to sin through the process of death (repentance from dead works), burial (baptism in the watery grave) and the resurrection (coming up out of the water a new man walking in the newness of life). This passage and chapter 7 say nothing about the Law being dead, it says WE BECOME DEAD TO THE LAW. We repent of breaking the Law and are no longer under the CONDEMNATION of the Law...
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 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:
So, Christ freed us from the law of sin and death. We are no longer under the death penalty. What did He do? Condemned sin, not the Law.
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
It says the righteousness of WHAT? THE LAW!
Rom 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Rom 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
To be carnally minded is as verse 7 says, to be the enemy of God and hostile to His Law and not subject to it.
Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Rom 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Now what was it Paul said about the Law?
Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Now read the next verse in chapter 7...
Rom 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
The Law defines sin and conversely defines righteousness.
[/B][/FONT]If we have been discharged from being married to the law through death, we have no more intercourse with the law. We are dead to what once restrained and held us captive (the old sin nature). When Christ crucified sin He broke the curse that sin had upon us through the law.
Rom 7:3 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.
Freed from the former association. She is then bound by a new Law, a spiritual Law? Or do you suppose that Christ does not expect His wife to obey the seventh Commandment and be faithful to Him? There is a woman named like this...
1Co 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1Co 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1Co 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
We were, but are now washed through baptism and Christ's sacrifice.
23 Now before the faith came, we were perpetually guarded under the Law, kept in custody in preparation for the faith that was destined to be revealed (unveiled, disclosed),
24 So that the Law served [to us Jews] as our trainer [our guardian, our guide to Christ, to lead us] until Christ [came], that we might be justified (declared righteous, put in right standing with God) by and through faith.
25 But now that the faith has come, we are no longer under a trainer (the guardian of our childhood).
26 For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.
18 But if you are guided (led) by the [Holy] Spirit, you are not subject to (under) the Law.
The law can make no legal claim over us because we are under grace. To put ourselves under the law when we have been declared righteous by faith without the law is to go back into bondage from which Christ has set us free. Those who try and mingle grace with keeping the law do not reckon themselves to be dead to sin and they need and look to the law to keep themselves in right standing with God and that would include keeping the Sabbath which was part of the law. To say that the law of the Sabbath is not part of the law is denying the law. We have been declared righteous without the law and have been married to another, Christ. The law has been made inoperative and we have been discharged from it. The purpose for which the law served is no longer needed because faith has come in the person of Christ having crucified sin and our sins. We are people who have the Spirit who guides us into all truth and the cross to remind us that our old sin nature is dead and that we have been crucified with Christ through His death, burial and resurrection. Christ did not rise from the dead declaring the law.
The Schoolmaster was the Law of sacrifices...
Heb 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Heb 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Heb 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
Heb 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
Heb 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
And if you think the Law is in operable on you, you need to read a little more...
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1Jn 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
1Co 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
1Co 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Sin is the transgression of the Law and the result of sin is death.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Rev 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
It says that those who do His Commandments receive eternal life, not those who do AWAY with them.
