Romans 7:1, “1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?”
Galatians 5:13-14, “13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”[b]
When our liberty in Christ is used as an occasion to the flesh, Gal. 5:19-21, the law or self-imposed law thinks it is empowered, but is it really. Okay, so what? Perhaps this is why Paul says in Gal. 5:1-2, “1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free,[a] and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. 2 Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.”
Well, the law does something when you get entangled with it. What’s that? It passes judgment, guilt and condemnation as well as corruption if the flesh is sown to. If the flesh is sown to corruption is brought also. Rom. 2:12, 3:19, 3:20; Gal. 6:7-8.
Who is it that thinks he/she is entangle with self-condemnation? The old person.
Rom. 7:5, “5 For when we were in the flesh (pre-salvation), the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.”
Not the new creation in Christ. The new creation in is not aware of any judgment of sin. Chapter and verse please? Rom. 3:20, 5:13, 6:14, 8:1; 2 Cor. 5:17. The is gone. In Phil. 3:13, “forgetting” in “forgetting those things which are behind” in the Greek means OBLIVION. I do not have knowledge of the guilt and judgment of the law. That is what these verses and other related verses mean: Rom. 3:20, 5:13, 6:14, 8:1; 2 Cor. 5:17. This is only possible through the complete work of Christ by purging the conscience from dead works. My conscience is purged, sanctified and purified in Christ.
Reality is not keeping the law according to the flesh, but His faith in us. This not only makes us right-standing with God, but imparts His actual nature into our being by revelation.
The apostle (to the Jews) Peter says, “18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 3:18
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