Bible Readings:
Galatians 3:1 – 14
2 Corinthians 3:1 – 18
Romans 7:4 (NKJV)
4Therefore, 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.
Romans 7:6 (NKJV)
6But 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.
I What fruit?
II The gift of life
Galatians 2:19–20 (NKJV)
19For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God.
20I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
III The blessings of life
1 – Light
2 – Strength
Philippians 4:13 (NKJV)
13I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
3 – Liberty
2 Corinthians 3:17 (NKJV)
17Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Psalm 119:45 (NKJV)
45And I will walk at liberty, For I seek Your precepts.
Psalm 119:32 (NKJV)
32I will run the course of Your commandments, For You shall enlarge my heart.
Luke 1:74–75 (NKJV)
74To grant us that we, Being delivered from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear,
75In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.
III The motivation of love
2 Corinthians 5:14–15 (NKJV)
14For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;
15and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.