“The Life I Now Live”

By Tammy Lacock

“For the woman which hath a 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.” (Romans 7:2, KJV)

Warren Litzman’s mission in today’s podcast is to explain Apostle Paul’s deeper meaning of Romans 7:2. On the surface, this verse says that a woman is bound to her husband until he dies. Then she is no longer his wife under the law, and she may start a new life. While this is true, Paul’s message goes deeper.

Warren explains there must be a death—death to our old life—to have a new life as the new creature God intended we become. Paul’s deeper message says by Christ’ death on the cross, as believers in Him, we died with Him, in Him. We died to our old lives, our sin-life, and to the law; and when He rose from death, we rose with Him, too, to His new life, in Him.

We are born again the moment we believe on Jesus Christ as our Savior. He saved us from our old lives when he bore all of humanity’s sins in His body. When He died, in Him our sins died and we died. In that moment, we are born again, and our new life is Christ.

A true Christian is dead to his old life; there must be a death to die to sin and law. The life he now lives is Christ, controlled by Christ, not law. Christ is alive in every believer!

Once the old creature is dead and living a new life, God's ongoing work is transforming his new son's old consciousness, his heart-mind-soul, to his new life to raise him to maturity, to the full stature of Christ, God's Son.

What will you do with this knowledge of Christ in you?

The heart of Paul’s message of Christ as our new life is also plainly conveyed by him in Galatians 2:20 (KJV) when he says, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”