Romans 7:5-6
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 6 But 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.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 6 But 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.
Before regeneration, in the carnal man, we heard what not to do and then defiantly pursued those sinful desires with vigor. But those things revealed as wrong by God (by both letter and conscience) only led to death in spirit and body. The fruit was our due wages we earned. But now we are set free if we are in Christ, free from external regulations of no effect for righteousness. The internal change delivers us to Christ’s righteousness by faith to obey the law from a willing heart and mind as a result, not the cause. So we serve in His Spirit within and not rules without. And this willingly!
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