The Law as a Heavy, Heavy Load, Part 1 (TMF:1629)

Thursday, June 10, 2021
Peace to Live By: The Law as a Heavy, Heavy Load, Part 1 (TMF:1629) - Daniel Litton
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       “Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress” (Romans 7:1-3, ESV). This is an interesting transition here, but one the fits right in line with what Paul has been discussing thus far. Paul brings up the example of a married woman in order to try to get us to grasp a Jew’s relationship with the Mosaic Law. For Paul here is transitioning to talking to Jewish people, for he said, “I am speaking to those who know the law.” Who are those who know the Law? Well, Jews of course.