Bible Readings:
Galatians 2:1-21
Romans 7:1-25
Sermon Outline:
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 The meaning the law here
II Dead to the law as covenant of works
Galatians 2:19 (NKJV)
19For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God.
III Bear fruit
The Westminster Confession of Faith (A. D. 1646)
7.2. The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works,
wherein life was promised to Adam; and in him to his posterity, upon
condition of perfect and personal obedience.
19.1. God gave to Adam a law, as a covenant of works, by which He
bound him and all his posterity, to personal, entire, exact, and
perpetual obedience, promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatened
death upon the breach of it, and endued him with power and ability to
keep it.
19.6. Although true believers be not under the law, as a covenant of
works, to be thereby justified, or condemned; yet is it of great use to
them, as well as to others; in that, as a rule of life informing them of
the will of God, and their duty, it directs and binds them to walk
accordingly;
The Westminster Larger Catechism (A. D. 1647)
WLC 30 Does God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and
misery ?
God does not leave all men to perish in the estate of sin and misery,
into which they fell by the breach of the first covenant, commonly
called the covenant of works; but of his mere love and mercy delivers
his elect out of it, and brings them into an estate of salvation by the
second covenant, commonly called the covenant of grace.
WLC 97 What special use is there of the moral law to the regenerate?
Although they that are regenerate, and believe in Christ, be delivered
from the moral law as a covenant of works, so as thereby they are
neither justified nor condemned;