- Paul puts the risen, living Christ where the law was. Once you were alive to the law, but now you belong to Christ. In the place of law is a Person--a great Savior, a mighty Lord, an infinite Treasure. Our daily, hourly focus is now on him--his deliverance, his help, his guidance, the beauty of his love and justice and power and wisdom and truth, and all the joy of knowing him. And what comes of this union with Christ at the end of Romans 7:4?
Fruit. "...so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God." And what fruit is that? The fruit is love (Galatians 5:22; 5:6; 1 Timothy 1:5). And, yes, that love does fulfill the law--not perfectly (Christ alone has done that for me), but truly, because my life now in Christ has a new spirit, a new passion, new direction.
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Amen Brother Piper.
I have been saying for years that the Christian is dead to the Law. We no longer look to the Ten Commandments. They were for the Jews in the Old Dispensation. But we, Christians, people of the Way, people of the New Dispensation, now look to the Lord Jesus Christ!!! He and He alone is the fulfillment of every Old Testament prophecy!!
All praise, honor and glory belong to Him. For He alone has delivered us from the curse of the LAW!! Let us live in the fulfillment of all that is ours in Christ!
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