Freed from the Law
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Since we live under grace, we’re no longer slaves to the law. Yet God’s law still plays an important role in the Christian life. From his sermon series in Romans, today R.C. Sproul explains our relationship to the law as people justified by faith alone.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | The law is rooted and grounded in the character of God. |
| 0:04.0 | It flows from the very being of God. |
| 0:08.0 | And I remind you that as the author of human life, as the creator of your soul, he has every right |
| 0:15.0 | to impose whatever obligations he wants to upon you. In Romans chapter 7, the Apostle Paul makes the point that as believers, we have been freed |
| 0:30.6 | from God's law, His commandments. So does that mean we can live any way we want? |
| 0:36.6 | Today on renewing your mind, we begin a new sermon series from R. C. Sprawl in the Book of Romans |
| 0:42.3 | as we consider the law of God and our relationship to it as Christians. |
| 0:47.3 | Before we get to today's sermon, you can own Dr. Sproul's commentary on Romans, |
| 0:52.3 | which was the fruit of his study and series |
| 0:55.1 | in the book when you donate before midnight tonight at Renewing Your Mind.org. |
| 1:01.5 | Well, to start this short series, here's R.C. Sprawl in Romans chapter 7. |
| 1:09.5 | I'm going to begin chapter 7 at verse 1 and read through verse 6. |
| 1:17.9 | Or do you not know, brethren, for I speak to those who know the law, that the law has dominion |
| 1:26.4 | over a man as long as he lives. For the woman who has a husband |
| 1:32.1 | is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released |
| 1:42.2 | from the law of her husband. |
| 1:45.7 | So then, if while her husband lives, she marries another man, |
| 1:52.1 | she will be called an adulteress. |
| 1:54.7 | But if her husband dies, she is free from that law |
| 1:58.5 | so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. |
| 2:05.4 | Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ |
| 2:12.5 | that you may be married to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear |
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