Sunday on Monday - March 16th, 2026
Yesterday, we looked at Romans 7:1–6, where Paul explains a powerful truth about the gospel: our relationship to the Mosaic law has changed because we now belong to Jesus.
Paul uses the picture of marriage to explain it. Just as death releases someone from the legal bond of marriage, our union with Christ in His death means we have died to the law as the system that governed our relationship with God. That doesn’t mean the law was bad. The problem was never the law. The problem was sin working through our flesh. The result of that old life was “fruit for death” (verse 5).
Then Paul uses one of his favorite expressions: “But now…”
“But now we are released from the law… so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.” (Romans 7:6)
Through Christ, we have been set free from the law’s commanding authority so that we might belong to Him and bear fruit for God.
That’s a seismic shift!
Before Christ, God’s people lived under the commands of the Mosaic law, which governed every area of their lives with God. Now believers belong to Jesus and are guided by the Holy Spirit, who produces in them the kind of life the law once commanded.
The Christian life is not about trying harder to keep rules in order to earn God’s approval. It’s about living from the relationship we already have with Christ. When we are united to Him, His life begins to produce fruit in us. Love, patience, humility, and obedience flow from grace rather than law pressure.
So this week, instead of trying harder under the weight of duty, remember: the Christian life is a lifelong journey of discovering the depth of God’s love and holiness and growing in our understanding of the mystery of the life we already share with Him in Christ.
"May have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God "(Ephesians 3:18-19).
