Paul brilliantly points out that the law is only binding while we are alive. Then, since we are dead to our old self in Christ, we are free!

But the law isn’t sin itself, it just shows us what sin is! How would we know if we weren’t told? Yet, what is interesting is that sin and our sin nature jump at the opportunity to use knowledge against us. We know what is wrong and that is what we want. The deceiver has planted that seed in our hearts! You and I hear “surely, the Lord didn’t mean…” now instead of truth. We aren’t strong. In Christ we are!

So unfortunately we often do what we don’t want to do. God is greater!

We would be lost without Him, amen? So we need Him! Have you found Him?