Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter-by-ch chapter verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message, free from the law, as we pick up in Romans chapter 7 verse 1.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

Romans chapter 7, know ye not, brethren, for I speak to them that know the law.

In other words, I'm talking now to the Jews.

How that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he lives.

Don't you realize, Paul said, you that know the law,

that the law has dominion over you as long as you live.

One example out of the law that he brings to show the point. For the woman,

which has a husband, is bound by the law to the husband as long as he is living. But if the

husband is dead, she is freed from the law of the husband.

So then if while her husband is living, she be married to another man, she be called an adulteress.

But if her husband is dead, she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

She's using this particular example out of the law to show that the law has power over a person

as long as they are living.

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