them that know the law, I speak
to civilized people, he said, not to the barbarians, how that
the law hath dominion over a man as long as he live it. Now bear
this in mind, we're talking about the Ten Commandments. We're talking
about the moral law of God in chapter 7. That's what we're
talking about. We're not talking about ceremonial
law at all here. We're talking about the moral
law, the law given to Moses on Mount Sinai. That's what we're
talking about. Now, the Apostle begins chapter
7 with a general principle. He says this, and he says it's
familiar to everybody that's acquainted with any kind of law.
This principle applies to every law. The principle is this, whether
it's a Jewish law or a Roman law or any other law, A man is
bound by the law as long as he lives and no longer. That's what
he's saying. Don't you know, brethren, that
the law hath dominion over a man as long as he lives? Now, there's no idea here of
repealing the law. He's not talking about that at
all. He's talking about the law's dominion over an individual.
Any law that you may talk about has dominion over a man as long
as he lives. When a man is dead, the law has
no more dominion over him. Now, the law still is in force.
The law still remains. It's not repealed. It's not ditched. It's not eradicated. The law
is still there. It just has no dominion over that man. He's
dead. It has dominion over other people.
who is still living, but it doesn't have dominion over that man.
Now that's what he's saying here, there's no question about this.
The law remains in force, but death frees that man from the
obligation of a law to which he was rightfully subject. We're
not questioning the accuracy of the law or the right of the
law. The demand of that man, anything that it demands of The
law is in force, the law is right, the law is truth, and the law
is just in demanding whatever it demands of that man. When
he's dead, that law can't touch him. No way that that law can
touch him. No way that that law can have
dominion over him. He's dead. It's still in force. It's still right. It's still
just. It's still truth. It's not the
law that's dead, it's the man that's dead. The law's still
there. You see what we're saying? Let that be perfectly clear.
Death frees a man from the obligation of the law to which he's rightfully
subject. Nothing else can free him from
that law and from his responsibility to that law except death. It's the only way out. The only
way out is death. Now, the law of God, as a principle
of justification and sanctification, has dominion over you and me, till by union with Christ we
become as a dead man in reference to that law. That law has every
right to demand of us everything that it demands. And it has a
right to curse me and to condemn me. That law has dominion over
me. Christ Jesus was born under the
law one time. He came under the law to redeem
those who were under the law, rightfully so. But when I'm dead,
that law has no more dominion over me. Now he gives this illustration.
In verse 2 and 3 he says, A woman that hath been husband If you
women are sitting out here tonight, you have husbands. You are bound
by the law to your husband as long as he lives. But if your
husband's dead, you're not bound any longer by the law of that
husband. You're loosed from him. The Apostle gives this illustration
in which death dissolves a legal obligation. The woman referred
to here becomes dead to the law of her husband when he dies. She's completely removed from
any of the power of that law. No way that that law can require
anything of her. It's the same as if she had died.
The law has no more dominion over her at all, the law of her
husband. As long as she lives, she's in subjection to that husband.
As long as she lives, she's to be true to that husband. As long
as she lives, she's to forsake all others for him. But when
he's dead, She's under no more obligation to him as if she were
dead herself. Now look at verse 4. Wherefore,
my brethren, you also are become dead to the law. We're talking
about the Ten Commandments here now. The believers, now let me
make these comments. It says, we also, like this illustration
here. This woman was under the law
of her husband. while he lived. He's dead now.
She's no longer under that law. It is as if she had died herself. When a man is dead, the law has
no more legal claim on him. The law can't touch him. The
law can't have any dominion over him. The believer's freedom from
the law, as a principle of justification, as a principle of sanctification,
is as complete as a dead man is from the law to which he was
subject while he was alive. And the believer's freedom from
the law is as complete as this woman's freedom from her dead
husband. Now do you see what Paul is saying?
He starts out with this. In verse 1 he says, do you, I'm
talking to civilized people, not barbarians, people who know
the law. And he said, the first thing you know about the law
is this, that the law does have dominion over a man as long as
he lives. When he's dead, it has no dominion over him. It
can't touch him. You don't require him to obey
that particular legal requirement if he's dead. He said, a woman
who has a husband, she's married to this man, he dies, are you
going to make her live the rest of her life in subjection to
a man who's dead? Even so, the believer's freedom
from the law as a principle of justification, now listen clearly
what I'm saying, as a principle of justification, as a way of
life, as a principle of sanctification, my freedom from the law is as
complete as a dead man is free from the law to which he was
subject, or the woman from the law of her husband, to which
she was subject as long as he was living. It is not by the
law in any shape, form or fashion that we are justified, sanctified
or saved. Not in any way. Now this, look at the next line.
My brethren, you are become dead to the law by the body of Christ. Now this freedom from the law
is not by my death. It's not by my death, but it's
by and through the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. I've been
delivered from the dominion of the law by the death of my Lord,
and our freedom from the law is the result of what Christ
did and what Christ suffered in our place. He was made sin
for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
And as a result of our being in the body of Christ, we are
freed from the law. We are considered as if we had
done what He did, we had suffered what He suffered, we have obtained
what He obtained, and in Him we obeyed and we suffered and
we died. Turn to Hebrews chapter 10, verse
10. Now listen carefully to this.
Hebrews 10, verse 10. Our Lord is talking about himself
here. He said, A body thou hast prepared
me, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that
he may establish the second, by which will we are sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. The death of Christ, in which
we are one with him, was a death that answered everything the
law demands. It killed him, and when it killed
him, it killed us. It slew him, and when it slew
him, it slew us. So that if we are in Christ,
the law can have no demand on us whatsoever. We're dead. we died with Christ. That's what
it says. Brethren, you also, go back to verse 1 when he's
talking about the law has no dominion over a man if he's dead.
A woman's husband, as the law over her, has no dominion if
he's dead. And you also, you see that? One, two, three, you also are
become dead to the law. You didn't die, Christ died. You didn't obey, Christ obeyed. You didn't suffer, Christ suffered. You didn't meet the obligation
of the law, He met it. But He met it as your representative. He met it as your substitute,
and you were in Him when He suffered, in Him when He died, in him when
the law exacted all demands out of him, and you did it in him. And the law has no legal demand
whatsoever upon you. That's the reason Paul said,
Who can lay anything to my charge? There is no condemnation to them
that are in Christ Jesus. Who can condemn us? Now look
at the second part of verse four. That you should be married to
another. Now this woman over here in verse
2 and 3, the Bible sanctions remarriage. It sanctions remarriage
on two accounts, on three accounts. Number one, the death of the
partner. Number two, unfaithfulness or adultery. Number three, desertion. The Bible sanctions remarriage
on any of those three grounds, death, adultery, or desertion. And it talks about this woman
can be married to another man. She can be married to another
man if her husband is dead. Now then, it says here that we
are dead to the law that we should be married to another, even to
him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit
unto God. Now then, we were under the law. We were under the law As far
as the covenant is concerned, back yonder in Adam, we were
under the law as a curse, we were under the law as condemnation,
we were in bondage to the law. Now we have been set free from
the law, and we are married to another. We are brought into
a marriage union with Christ, and our happiness is identified
with His happiness. And our dependence now is not
upon the law, it is upon Christ. It is upon Christ for all that
we need. We are completely freed from
the law and we're bound to a new master. We're not married to
the law, we're married to Christ. We're not under the law, we're
under Christ. We're not under the rule of the
law, we're under the rule of a new husband and a new master. That's what Paul said to the
Galatians over there when they wanted to bring back the ceremonial
law. He said, did you begin in the
spirit and now you're made perfect in the flesh? Tell me, you that
desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? We're freed
from that law. We're dead as far as that law
is concerned. We're married to another. We
have a new husband. And that one is Christ our Lord.
Now, if we're under the law, If I'm still under the law, if
my first husband's still living, I can't be married to Christ.
You see what I'm saying? I can't be married to two. But
if that first one's dead, and I'm no longer under his dominion
at all, I'm freed from him, then I can be married to Christ, and
I'm under a new master, and I have a new husband. Now, if I'm under
the law, Then I'm seeking salvation or justification or sanctification
by what I'm doing. That's how I'm seeking it. No
matter how I cloud it, no matter how I disguise it, if I'm still
trying to find any of these things by obedience to the law, I'm
not married to Christ. Because I can't have two husbands,
can't serve two masters. If we're in Christ, we're saying
this, the Lord is my wisdom, the Lord is my righteousness,
the Lord is my sanctification, the Lord is my Redeemer. We can't
do both. And he says here, watch this
now, you're dead to the law by the body of Christ in the death
of Christ. In the death of Christ, you died
to the law. that you should be married to
another, that you should be one with him, even to him who is
raised from the dead. And here's the natural result
of that union, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. That's the natural result of
that union. People are running around afraid
that if we don't keep the law hanging over the head of folks,
that they're not going to bring forth fruit. Well, Paul, we'll
look at something in just a minute, but let me say this right here.
The certain results of a union with Christ, the certain results
of a union with Christ, is fruit unto God. What is that fruit?
Galatians 5 will tell you. You want to look over there?
Galatians 5.22. The fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance,
against such there is no law. That's the fruit of the Spirit,
that's the fruit under God, and that's what naturally springs
from a marriage union with Christ. You know, somebody said one time,
two people stay married long enough, they begin to take on
one another's characteristics, if they're not careful. But they
began to take on, they began to look like one another, they
began to act like one another, they began to talk like one another.
That's what happens when a person's married to Christ. They noticed
these disciples that they'd been with Jesus. They couldn't help
but notice that they were acting like the Lord acted. And that's
what he says here, this is the natural result from a union with
Christ. You're going to bring forth fruit
unto God. Now then, what's this next line?
I want to say this before I read it. John Brown said, deliverance,
and I want you to listen to this carefully, this caught my attention. Deliverance from the law is necessary
in order to sanctification. You know, we've been taught all
our lives the opposite of that. We've been taught all our lives
the only way To get people to be good is to hammer the law
over their head. Don't do this, don't do that,
don't do the other, don't do this. That's the way to make
people good. You know what John Brown said?
The only way a man will ever be sanctified is to get him delivered
from the law. The law cannot make an evil man
good. In order to live to God, we're
going to have to become dead to the law. That's the only way
we'll ever live to God. That's the only way that we'll
ever be married to Christ, is to get a divorce from the law.
Now, an illustration of this, and I want you to watch this.
Paul appeals to your own experience. This is what he appeals to in
verse 5, your own experience. He says here, when you were in
the flesh. Now, brethren, there's a difference
in being in the flesh and the flesh in you. There's flesh in every one of
you, in me and in you. There's a difference in being
in the flesh and the flesh being in you. When he's talking about
here, when you were in the flesh, he's talking about when you were
unsaved, when you were unregenerated, when flesh was your existence,
when the spirit didn't exist, when you were not regenerated,
when you were not born again. Now remember, let's go back.
When you were unregenerated, When you were unsaved, the motions
of sin, that's the affections and the passions and the thoughts
of sin, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring
forth fruit unto death. Now here's what he's saying.
In other words, he laid down this premise. Deliverance from
the law is necessary to sanctification. And this is the illustration
that he used. When you were in the flesh, what was the effect
of the law on you, what effect did the law have on you when
you were unregenerated? Did it make you holy? When you
were unregenerated, when you were unsaved, the law was there,
you knew it was there. God's not left himself without
a witness. Every man has a conscience. When
you were unregenerated, when you were unsafe, did the law
make you holy? No. The threatenings of the law
and the warnings of the law and the requirements of the law,
what effect did it have on you? Remember? It says right here that it worked
in you to bring forth fruit unto death. The passions of sin were
excited by the law. They were irritated by the law.
Instead of the law subduing evil thoughts, instead of the law
subduing sinful passions, instead of the law subduing sinful actions,
it only irritated them more and more. It only made you more rebellious. It only made you hate the law
a little more and hate the lawgiver a little more. When you were
unregenerated, the law neither curbed nor checked your motions
of sin. It simply brought out the enmity
of your heart against God. Now look at verse 6. But now, now then, we're delivered
from the law. We're delivered from the law's
curse. We're delivered from the law's condemnation. We're delivered
from the law. Our freedom from the law arises
from Christ settling our count. Our count is paid in full. And we're not free from the law
to continue in sin, but he says we're free from the law to serve
God in newness of spirit. Watch this. But now we're delivered
from the law, that being dead. wherein we were held, we were
held in bondage, we were held in chains as a slave, that we
should serve God in newness of spirit, not in the oldness of
the letter. Now here's what he's saying. Our freedom from the law arises
from Christ settling our account, paying our debt. And we are Not
to continue in sin, in rebellion, but to serve God in newness of
spirit. Now what is newness of spirit?
Newness of spirit is equivalent to serving God with a new nature,
with a new heart. Not in the way in which men serve
the law, for obedience to the law is the obedience of a slave. But the obedience of a man delivered
from the law is an obedience of a son, an affectionate son. Turn to Galatians chapter 5 again. It says down here in verse 13,
Galatians 5, 13. Brethren, you have been called
unto liberty. Liberty, freedom. You're free. You're free from the shackles
and chains of the law. Only use not liberty, that freedom,
for an occasion to the flesh." Well, I'm free from the law.
The law has no dominion over me. The
law can make no requirements of me. It's satisfied. It's paid
in full. Therefore, whatever I do is all
right. No, whatever you do is not all
right. Use not that liberty as an occasion to the flesh, but
use that liberty that by love you might serve one another.
Listen, for all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this. I shall love thy neighbor as
thyself. That's the newness of spilling. Like we were talking about the
other night, I made this illustration. The Ten Commandments is for beginners. Thou shalt have no other god
before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee
any graven image. Thou shalt not take the name
of the Lord thy God in vain. Remember this Sabbath day to
keep it holy. Honor thy father and thy mother. Thou shalt not
kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt
not commit adultery. Thou shalt not bear false witness.
Thou shalt not covet. That's for beginners. That's
the schoolmaster that brings us to Christ. I'm going to show
you some more things about it in a minute. But the believer
is so many grades above that. The believer is not wrestling
with murder. The believer is not wrestling
with perjury. That's the very thing that confused
the Apostle Paul. He had those commandments all
his life, and he kept those commandments. even as an unregenerated man,
those commandments were his rule of life. The rich young ruler
wasn't lying to Christ when he said, I've kept these from my
youth up. I have no problem with those
commandments. But now when the Lord Jesus Christ
pointed out to him that he didn't love his neighbor enough to sell
his goods and share them with other people. He kept these laws.
These laws was the rule by which he lived. But he didn't have
love, and mercy, and grace, and compassion, and meekness, and
generosity, and these things. We have gone beyond those things.
And that's what I'm saying here in verse 6. He says, we're delivered
from the law. We're married to a new husband.
We're not held in chains and bondage any longer, and we serve
him not in the oldness of the letter, but we serve him in a
newness of spirit. Spirit. Now then look at the next verse,
verse 7. What shall we say then? Is the
lost sin? on hearing the statement made
as to the effect of the law on men and the flesh, that it excites
sin. That's what Paul said back in
verse 5. He said, when you were unregenerated, what effect did
the law have on you? It just excited sin, it just
irritated sin, it just brought out the sin, it just made you
more rebellious. That's the effect the law had
on you. And so in verse 7, somebody upon hearing that says, well,
then the law is more at fault than I am. It's the law of sin,
and Paul says, God forbid. Now watch this. I would never
have known sin but by the law. Now what is it to know sin? I jotted down three things here.
What is it to know sin? Paul said, I would never have
known sin. Now remember, Paul was a theologian. Paul was a Pharisee. Paul was
a graduate of the best school of his day, the school of the
Gamaliel. Paul was a teacher of the Scriptures.
Paul had forgotten more Bible than you and I'll ever memorize.
And yet he said, I didn't know sin. Till the law came. Till the law. He knew the law.
He knew the Ten Commandments. But till the law came in the
hands of the Holy Spirit, in its proper light, in revealing
to him what I'm trying to say tonight. The very thing I'm trying
to preach to you is the very thing it took to awaken Paul. Now, what is it to know sin?
Well, first of all, it's to know what is sin. Most men are ignorant of the
spirituality of the law, and they call evil good and good
evil. What they're calling evil sometimes is good, and what they're
calling good is evil. They don't know what is sin. They don't even know what what
is sin and what isn't sin. I think we're going to wake up
someday to find out what we thought was sin wasn't sin, what we thought
wasn't sin was sin. Might be. That's what Paul found
out here. And then secondly, to know sin
is not only to know what is sin. You've got to find out what is
sin and what isn't sin. And secondly, to know what sin
is. The law taught Paul how wicked
sin is. I want sometime to assign you
to go through the Word of God and find everybody whom God killed,
everybody that divine judgment came on in death when God slew
some people, and find out why he slew them. Do you know that
most of the people God killed were in the church house trying
to worship? That's where he killed them.
He killed him at the altar, he killed him at the ark, he killed
him down in the front of the church, he killed him going through
the motions of some kind of public worship, or some kind of religious
exercise. What is sin? And what sin is? Paul found out that sin was exceeding
sinful. That whatever sin is, that whatever
sin is, God's, God Almighty is angry with it. Paul found out
whatever sin is, it's enough to send a man to eternal damnation. God's not going to send a man
to eternal damnation to go on the picture show. Don't tell
me that. I don't believe it. God's not going to burn a man's
soul in eternal hell for stealing a watermelon. Don't tell me that.
I don't believe it. We've got more compassion than
that. We don't even send us a man to
jail for stealing a watermelon. We don't send us a man to jail
for parking his car illegally. And you mean to tell me that
God's going to send my soul to hell for watching television?
I don't believe that. We don't know what is sin and
what isn't sin, and we don't know what sin is. And Paul didn't. And he had to find out what sin
was. He said, I didn't know sin. I had not known sin. I didn't even know what it was.
And the third thing about knowing sin, to know sin is to know what
is sin. To know sin is to know what sin
is. And to know sin is to be personally
convinced of sin. To know myself to be the chief
of sinners. to know what I am and what I
deserve. To know sin is to know the truth
about sin and the truth about my own heart and the truth about
my own relationship with God. And Paul said, I would not have
known sin but by the law. That's how I found out what is
sin and what sin is and that old Paul himself was the chief
of senate. Boy, he had a, and somebody,
John Brown, want to know when that took place. When did all
this take place? He thinks it took place after
Paul met Christ on the road to Damascus during that next three
days. Paul found out what is sin. He found out what sin is, and
he found out something that slew him. that so utterly, absolutely,
abased him, that he came up saying, I am the chief of sinners. And
before that he was taking vows for his blamelessness." He found
something out in those three days. He said, read that next
line, I have not known lust, except the law said thou shalt
not covet. He said, I did not know that
desire and evil thoughts was a sin at all. Paul looked at
the law like most people look at the law in the oldness of
the letter. To him the law was an outside
thing. He was a strict doer of the law.
He had no God but Jehovah. He abhorred idolatry. He kept
the Sabbath day. He never committed murder, adultery,
theft, or perjury. but somehow the Holy Spirit opened
his eyes to the tenth commandment, Thou shalt not covet. And old Paul discovered something
that he never knew before, that God was saying in that law, Thou
shalt not even desire. Thou shalt not even think upon. Thou shalt not even wish for. Thou shalt not even want. anything
that's forbidden. And then he found out that he
was a great sinner. I wouldn't have known it, he
said, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. So what
shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid! The
law is the mirror in which we look and see ourselves. The law
is perfect and holy. Look at the next line. But sin,
taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence."
Now that word, lust, in verse 7 is the same word, concupiscence,
in verse 8. Without the law, sin was dead.
All right, preacher, explain that. That's a tough verse. I
agree with you. Let me see if I can do it this way. Paul says,
when the law came, when the true law of God came, in the hands
of the Holy Ghost, when what the law actually was saying,
what the law was actually requiring, when it actually entered into
my conscience with power and light, I saw innumerable swarms of lust,
like hornets and like wasps and like yellow jackets buzzing from
their nests. the law wrought in me all manner
of concupiscence. When the law came in the power
of the Holy Spirit, why, I saw innumerable swarms of lust in
my soul and in my heart. And I saw things to be sinful
which I never saw or knew before. When I was without the light
and the knowledge of the Holy Spirit, the sin was there, But I fancied myself to be free
from it. It was there. Look at that last
line in verse 8. Without the law, sin was dead. To me it was dead. To me it didn't
exist. To me, I didn't see it. I didn't
even see it there. It was there, but to me it was
dead. I thought myself to be alive. I thought myself to be
something. I thought myself to be holy and
obedient and righteous. And God opened that cesspool
of iniquity and let the light of his holy law shine in. Thou
shalt not covet, thou shalt not even think or desire or wish
for or want anything forbidden. Thou shalt be perfectly holy
and satisfied with whatever state you're in. And Paul said, when
that came, I just saw innumerable swarms of iniquity and lust and
concupiscence. And verse 9, I was alive without
the law once. I thought myself to be healthy
and sound and whole. Have you ever been there? I thought
myself to be a pretty good fella. I lived in a state of tranquility,
free from all blame. Someone to whom the community
could look up to. Someone people could admire,
trustworthy. full of integrity and faithfulness
and holiness and righteousness. I was alive without the law. But when the commandment came,
that old, ugly, terrible, evil, filthy hornet's nest of sin revived. And what happened to you, Paul?
I died. I saw myself a dead man, dead
in sin, under condemnation, deserving of eternal death. remorse took
the place of self-complacency, the law killed me, slew me." Before the law came, sin was
dead and old Paul was alive. But when the law came and Paul
found out what sin is and what is sin, and he saw the innumerable
swarms of lust and iniquities in his poor religious, moral,
righteous soul, Paul said, I died and sin revived. That's what
happened. Now look at verse 10. And the commandment which was
ordained to life I found to be unto death. And here's what he's
saying. The commandments and every part
of the law. And don't misunderstand this.
This is true. The commandments of God are calculated
to bring happiness. Will they bring happiness? Uh-uh.
Not to you and me. Ain't no way. The commandments
of God are designed and calculated to bring holiness. Will they
bring it? Not to you and me. It's not the
fault of the commandment. Whose fault is it? You and me. He said the commandment which
was ordained to life It was ordained to happiness and to holiness. But it didn't work that way with
me. That law, which, had it been fulfilled, would have brought
life. It would have brought life to Adam if he had kept it. It
would have brought life to Paul had he kept it. It would bring
happiness to you had you kept it. But in consequence of being
violated, what does the law do? It doesn't bring life, it sentences
you to death. It sentences you to death. That's
the reason Paul said to the Galatians, tell me, you that would be under
the law, tell me, do you not hear the law? There was a time
when Paul wanted to be under the law. There was a time when
he walked by that law and kept that law and swore by that law,
but he said, when the law came, I died. Because the law ripped
open my heart and my soul, and the law ripped open that old
grave of sin, and all I could see was dead men's bones, and
that which God gave to life I found to be unto death. Verse 12, the law is holy. Verse 11, for sin taken occasion
by the commandment deceived me and slew me, the meaning here
is this, Because of my guilty, wicked, depraved being, the law
which ought to have guided me, what did it do? It deceived me. The law which should have contributed
to my happiness, what did it do? It made me miserable. Sin
does this. Sin will take the very law of
God and twist it and deceive a person. That's what it did
to the Apostle Paul. sin deceived him. He looked straight
at the law. He had the Ten Commandments,
he read them every day, he read them from the pulpit, but his
own sinful mind had twisted that law to bring Paul, that wicked,
sinful being, to the place where he thought he was keeping that
law. It deceived him. Now the law is holy. We are not
questioning that. The law forbids nothing but that
which is wrong. Absolutely. The law of God is
holy. It doesn't forbid anything but
that which is wrong. The law is just. It doesn't require
anything but that which is right. In the design and nature and
rule of the law, it's worthy of its all-wise creator. We stand before the law in admiration. We stand before the law in awe
and solemn respect and reverence. It's perfect. It's holy. It's just. It's good. We love
it. We'll see that next Wednesday
night week. But to me, to me, Paul says, it has become
the occasion of misery. Every time I look at it, I get
unhappy, he said. Every time. It's not the fault
of the law. It's my fault. All right, verse
12. Was then that which was good,
the law is good. Was that which is good made death
unto me? God forbid. The law was not the
cause of my misery. My sin was the cause of my misery. The law was not the cause of
my death. My sin was the cause of my death. Was that which was good made
death unto me? God forbid! But sin, that it
might appear, sin working death in me by that which is good. that sin by the law, by the commandment
in the light of the law, might become to me exceeding sinfulness. It's not the law, it's my sin
that's the cause of my guilt. In the mirror of the law, sin
appears in its true colors, and that's the only place.