Romans 7:1-25 KJV
1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 For the woman which hath an 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 of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Was then that which is 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 commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Which law is first in your life, the law of your family, the law of work, law of our nation or the law of God. Paul had a problem he dealt with the legal law and those in it all the time. The law of Rome and that law of faith, first as a Jew and then as a Christian. Perhaps Paul is one of the biggest legal minds in scripture though there be many people that governed and ruled by the laws of both faith and country. Perhaps Paul was one of the great debaters of law and faith in scripture, because he seem to have adapted his faith to living in the world he was in despite the fact he spent alot of time in the chains of the world and even in prison. We must grasp Paul's rebellion was not against the law as some might think, but to point out how man is a law unto himself to either submit to both God and legal law or to only God. The theology behind the law and option to the law is real, but if we obey the Spirit of God we will not infringe on the laws of the land? Only if the land forbids the freedom of worship.

My new kitten has one law to play with anything that moves, eat, sleep and be merry. He has yet to understand the law of the home, despite the other pets have been doing their best to correct him. What worse is this morning he knocked down a five year old computer screen. It still new but hardly used, it a back up screen. There is a point to the matter. The kitten did not break it but I believe hubby was ready to ring his little neck. I told hubby wait til we see if it is broke or not. The screen is now upright again, no harm done. Yet kitten learned about the tone of my voice and it means he is in trouble.

If we say we submit to the law of God, the law of home and the law of work and society that governs us, then we not adulterers, but if we obey the law of home, and have an affair we are now adulterer even if we marry the other man, until the first one is dead according to Jewish law. In other words Guys if you are first husband then any other that comes after makes a woman an adulterer. Now why are women blamed for all sin it seems. She is the one to break the first contract of marriage. If she is a widow then the first contract is void. If she marries and still resides with her husband she breaking the law of marriage by being with another man while married. Yet Paul stretch it further and implies it to the church, being if we obey the church and not Christ we have become a adultress to Christ,

The church being who carries the law of Christ but not always in obedience to Christ. We must separate our alliance to understand what it about. You become a member to a church you become part of the body of Christ, but within the church there are several laws that reign there. The law of man, the law of social ettiquets, and the law of God. In the garden was only one law when Adam and Eve were created, and that was the Law of God. However at some point the serpent the devil a messenger of God thought he was equal to God deceived Eve. His law being invoked in heaven against God. The adultress being Eve who obey the law of the serpent instead of the law of God or even her husband. If all the animals, plus Adam and Eve had continued in obedience to God we probably be still there, or someone else would of fallen. Now because of original sin, there is another law upon the earth. One being the law of God, the other the law of the devil and man. We have become subject to both laws when we obey both. In other words there is a constant war within us as believers. A war to obey our heavenly Father and the law of carnal man, and that obeys the inward man. Until inward man is in complet compliance with God we live in adultery to God. However if we are born again by Christ Jesus, we obey both the law of God and law of carnal man. It is because our sins are washed away, our covered by the blood of the Lamb.

Did not Naaman ask permission to bow in the temple of his master(II Kings 5), though he did not believed in his masters god. He believed in the one that removed his leperous, the great I Am (God in Scripture). What then was Naaman adultress only in public display but not in the heart. There are things we do in this world that is not in accordance to the will of God, but in accordance to obedient to those who are lord over us, in regards to being our bosses, or significant other, who may or may not see equality in the home. We maybe in submission to our mate, whether it be wife or husband, to a degree. We are subject to our boss on the job if we want a job. If we want to be a part of a church we are subject to the church inside the church or church function if we willing to be in compliance to their law.

I give you example of church law. A person desiring to help in VBS becoming subject to the leader or teacher of a particular group. The person is there to help, but the help given must be in accordance to what that particular teacher needs done, almost becoming a slave with in the class group. One might have freedom to help or to do a certain task by choice, but one is still subject to the rules of the teacher. One is first subject to the law of Christ in regards to love, but it is the other stuff that might come like how something is to be taught, or even dictated. Not always is freedom given in how to teach or do something. Especially if the worker is young. Yet there usually more freedom if one has a good leader to follow under. However if one working with a young person who desires to learn to teach, the control is sometimes over bearing. What happens, one they know not the ability of a person, two the teacher maybe going by what they know about people that age and three they closed minded that young people can have a call on their life, or four the person might just might have a personally of being domineering. The one person is now subject to tolatitarian point of view. If you think on it most churches are this way. To make changes must be okay by certain leaders. Belief will never change if they hold fast to the Gospel of Jesus, but how things are done might if it betters or increases the church. Styles of worship have changed over the years, and even how someone stands and acts behind a pulpit from the fundamental standing behind the podium to moving from one end of the sanctuary to the other while teaching or preaching.

The war within the church is sometimes over traditions of law and acceptance of how things are done, to the adulterer who changes customs that may or may not benefit the church, it will depend on the type of fruit it bears. If it bears positive fruit, people gain knowledge of faith, and producing love of Christ, then it usually welcome. Chaos is not to reign in church. How does that play out in society where people do their own thing, there own way of teaching and thinking. It comes into a society as being a dictatorship and not necessarily a society of choice or acceptance of different school of thought. In Paul's day the laws of the church, the church itself was on the outside and looking into a world that did not accept it school of thought necessarily, in fact in Paul's day faith was the underdog of society. Or the rescuer of corruption when law of faith, and rules were introduced as being good and if thought to be evil it was on the outs with persecution. When Paul explained the law he explained he could obey Roman law while obeying the spiritual law. Roman being the carnal law, and the spiritual law being the law of faith. He was willing to face punishment for any law he broke concerning Roman law, and if taken to the whipping post without a fair hearing because he was a Roman citizen he was willing to call it to the little towns and cities attention, to the point he would eventually be locked in chains to appeal to Ceasar himself.

The law of faith can land a person into all kinds of trouble with people in opposition to his/her way of thinking. They will try and trap, tempt and belittle you. However they will also see your testimony of faith despite it all and perhaps decide your faith is at least worth protecting or they become a believer as well. Whatever the reason being, one has a responsibility to obey God as a believer and a servant of Christ Jesus. Living by faith and not by sight.

Dear Heavenly Father, help us to obey your Spirit despite always our actions in the world we live in. Help us to be in submission to you, even when we are subject to another law raging within us from work, home, or school. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Romans 8:1-21 KJV
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.