262 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 2 - Book 22 - The New Nature

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 22 THE NEW NATURE II Corinthians 4:3,4 Satan, the god of this world), lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." Just as lost as the ones we read about in II Corinthians Chapter 4. Why didn't God appoint angels to do His evangelism? II Corinthians 5:20 "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God." Number one, as the result of Adam's fall, is physical death. This old body is going to die if The Lord doesn't come. Now even though old Adam is living in this body of flesh which is going to die, we also have to appropriate a death to that old Adam to that spirit side of us, and that, of course, is where Paul is dealing the most. When we talk about old Adam having to die, that means that the old sin nature we're born with has to die spiritually either in this life by appropriating the work of the Cross, and having him reckoned as dead in Christ, or old Adam is going to experience death at the Great White Throne, and as we saw in our last lesson, consigned to the Lake of Fire forever and ever - that's the second death, and in the area of the spirit. Now let's go into Chapter 7. I find Chapter 7 a thrilling chapter, and, of course, Paul is dealing again with this same thing that we've been talking about. How are we going to deal with old Adam, as over against the new divine nature that Christ places in us at Salvation. Romans 7:1 "KNOW ye not, brethren (believers), (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?" Now he's not just talking about the Mosaic Law here, he's talking about law as it governs society. Romans 7:2 "For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law (not the Mosaic Law here, but rather the law of the land) to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband." Now verse 3: Romans 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, if her husband is dead, then she is free from the law that kept those two people together. The law of the land that made them husband and wife); so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man." Romans 7:4 "Wherefore, my brethren (Paul is talking to the believers at Rome), ye also are become dead to the law (we're talking about the law of Moses, the Mosaic system. How?) by the body of Christ;..." Now reading the verse again: Romans 7:4 "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law (Mosaic system) by the body of Christ (that was crucified); that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God." Paul says that just the same as a husband and wife are by the law held together, they cannot operate, or function without the law of the land being part and parcel. The Law, the Ten Commandments are perfect, they're righteous, they're holy, and they're eternal. No, no, it's the eternal mind of God that's been revealed to mankind. We've got to die. We have to die. Oh, not physically, but in that old Adam. Old Adam has to be crucified, and the minute he is crucified, and is dead in the eyes of God, the Ten Commandments no longer hang over him. He's dead! Ephesians 5:25 "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it:" Crucify old Adam, put him to death so that he is broken from the demands of the Ten Commandments, and be married to Christ. Let's jump ahead a little bit here in Chapter 7, and verse 6, then I'll come back to verse 4 and 5. Romans 7:6 The Holy Spirit that comes in and indwells us becomes our law. God never tells someone to go out and break up a family and home by committing adultery. God never does any of that, but that's what they try to say. God, the Spirit never goes contrary to the basic laws of God. Romans 7:6 Romans 7:4 "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God." Fruit. When we come into this marriage relationship with Christ, what does God now look for? Fruit. And what is the fruit of a believer now married to Christ? Other believers. Well precious few, but those few are God's fruit, as a result of His relationship with human beings. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible