Carnal man in the midst part 5

By: TOROSBC

Reference scripture: Romans 7: 1-25, 1st Corinthians 11:7, Galatians 3:13, John 12:24

"Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to them that know the law) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the women which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 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 that she is no adulteress, through she be married to another man.

Paul begins to address the conditions revealed by the life of the women bound to specific husbands. Within the Jewish faith the women is the glory of the man, thus the quality of the life of the man in his nature is exhibited in the radiance of the women.

Such as Israel who as collectively the women in covenant with God exhibited the radiance and glory of God. When they rejected him through adultery, they're glory was changed to that which they fornicated with by taking on the philosophies of other gods.

However Paul is addressing here to the gentiles an understanding of how we have been freed from marriage to the carnal law into the New Covenant of Christ.

Hence Paul begins by stating how laws are in effect as long as a man lives. Paul is addressing here that a type of nature necessitates a specific law. Hence laws are binding to the nature of a created thing first; as a result the ongoing nature of a created thing becomes bound to the law. Laws exist on the bases of the nature of living things. Hence when the nature dies the law becomes abolished. Whilst the nature lives, the law is still in operation.

Hence Paul then begins to identify the condition of marriage in this knowledge.

For the women which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Paul is identifying that whilst we are married to the (dualistic) nature of the first man (Adam), we are bound by the laws imputed as a result of the nature living. Hence in Adam we are bound to the conditions of the carnal law, which works to destroy the sinful nature. Hence as a result we, who are bound in marriage to the first Adam, we are bound as a wife to the nature of his life that is sin and death. Adam's rebellion leads to death. Hence all those produced from the nature of his loins are thereafter bound to the laws imputed as a result of his condition.

Romans 5:17 "For if by one man's offence death reigned by one"
Romans 5:18 "Therefore as by the offence of one judgement came upon all men to condemnation"
Romans 5:19 "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners"
Romans 5:20 "Moreover the law entered that the offence might abound"
Romans 5:21 "That as sin hath reigned unto death"

Whilst Adam lives, then man is married to the life called "the law of sin and death".

Hence lawfully because of our marriage to the conditions of Adam's (dualistic) nature, there was required the death of Adam so that we might be married to the life of another. Paul highlights that without the lawful death of the husband then marriage to another is adulteress and disqualifies the change of nature, the change of life.

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.

Hence the essential nature of Christ's death was to die as the last Adam. He is the last Adam because he terminates Adam's (dualistic) nature in his death and has resurrected as the new man who is the life giving spirit. When God pronounced that Adam would surely die, it was a two-fold pronouncement. The first on the fallen nature of Adam, and the second Jesus Christ who would come to fulfil that death spoken by the Father to make a way of redemption for man.

Hence by our acceptance of Christ's death, we have accepted the lawful death of Adam's (dualistic) nature. And by our acceptance of Christ's resurrection we have now married to the resurrected man Christ, a complete nature that is unified as one.

Romans 5:17 "much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ"
Romans 5:18 "even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life."
Romans 5:19 "so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous"
Romans 5:20 "grace did much more abound"
Romans 5:21 "even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord "

When Christ died, he experienced the tangible reality of death in all aspects of his being, his cry "my God why has thou forsaken me" took on and bore the wrath of God revealed in the law against sin that showed the true condition of the first Adam in all its cursed state.

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in the newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter (handwriting of ordinances that was against us)"

Hence our recognition of Christ's death as the last Adam, removes from us the condition of Adam's (dualistic) nature. The motions of sin having been removed as a result of the death of a nature that was in conflict to the carnal law (oldness of letter/handwritten ordinances) imputed as a result of the Adamic nature.

Note: It is important to clarify here, that whilst Adam did not receive the Mosaic Law, he did however receive a commandment from God, that he rebelled. Hence whilst the heathen do not know the law, they still however are affected by the root disposition of rebellion to God's command.

The ongoing establishment of the Mosaic Law simply aroused the carnal nature and produced greater fruit/seed of sin. However through Christ's death, sin has been judged by the law, and the law abolished as a result of Christ's death.

Hence we are now married to the resurrected man Christ and should bear fruit unto God. He is the seed that has fallen to the earth and died, so as God may see in the sons he has chosen fruit that will remain unto his coming for the great and fearful day of the harvest that will herald his kingdom. Hence this is the expectancy of God from his saints because of the finished work of Christ.

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