A WIFE IS BOUND TO HER HUSBAND BY THE LAW WHILE HE STILL LIVES( Romans 7:2)

A WIFE IS BOUND TO HER HUSBAND BY THE LAW WHILE HE STILL LIVES (Romans 7:2). Hello everyone, I would like to share my review on the Book of Romans titled ALREADY COMPLETED SALVATION written by Rev Paul C Jong. This review is much concentrated on the lesson learned from Romans Chapter 7, 8 and 9. My sincerest desire is that you may also get an opportunity to discover the concrete truth of the complete salvation that Jesus Christ has bestowed on us all mankind through both His baptism and death. This truth shows how completely free we are from death and entering hell once we believe wholeheartedly. May God continue to blessing His work through His true Servant Rev Jong and all the other faithful Servants beside him. May God continue to granting good health by healing any chaotic conditions that may hinder His work upon the lives of His Servant in Christ Jesus our LORD. All Glory to Wisdom! Amen.
My lesson is actually not from anywhere else but only through the perspective of the gospel of the water and the Spirit as recorded in this precious Book. As the title of my review reads, A WIFE IS BOUND TO HER HUSBAND BY THE LAW WHILE HE STILL LIVES. This shows how important it is to be joined together as One, I speak in a laymen understanding. But Spiritually speaking just as the wife is under her husband from marriage until death of the husband do them apart, so Romans 7 Is teaching us how one is bound to the Law as long as he lives. Because the law as authority over the Living, so any person who is alive is ruled by it. In short the wife cannot be a free woman and have a chance to get married to another husband unless the husband dies, so is anyone who is still alive in sin remain in it unless they die to it. This death only happens when one believes that Jesus took away all sins through His baptism (transferring of all sins), paid the wages of sin once for all on the Cross with His precious blood (Judgement). When We Believe in this truth we become those who have died to the Law through Christ. Hallelujah!!!
Romans 7 has basically taught me that, just as the wife’s freedom from being bound to her husband depends on the husband’s death. So no matter the different strategies or ways the wife may try to use to obtain that freedom it can never work because they are a single body. So the wife cannot escape her duty before the husband as they are joined as one, so only death can separate this joined body of a husband and wife. Thereby giving freedom to the wife that she can be remarried. Spiritually speaking, Romans 7 is has taught me, how anyone who is still hanged to the Law is bound to it as long as he lives. In short everyone born on this earth is born bound to the Law as the husband, so is everyone subjected to everything that the Law (husband) comes with. So as long as we live once born on this earth, it is everyone’s duty to take everything the law brings as its own. So no matter how one may try to escape from the law by oneself except through death, it is actually impossible to escape or be free from it by oneself.
In simpler way, no humanity can escape sin by oneself, either through his effort, deeds or obedience regardless how one may will to do so. Why? It because anyone who lives under the Law can not help but rather be exposed how helpless and unable he is, that not even a single amount of his effort or obedience is able to remove sin. That’s why today many souls who are under the Law can not help but live either in pretence (trying to hide among their traditions and customs, just show some sort of goodness) or they live publicly or privately in offerings donations or charity services to their denominations and devoted in offering consistent repentance prayers. Even in such pretentious and hypocritical way of living, sin still remains intact in their heart. As mentioned earlier own, no wife is freely unbound to her husband as long as he still lives, so can no mankind be free from been bound to the Law without passing through death.
In conclusion Romans 7 is the absolute true word that reveals the true helpless condition of a person under the law (one who knows what is good yet cannot perform it because sin dwells within). Every time one tries to live by the law, only his failure to live by it manifest in short sin is exposed from his heart and conscience, so is publicly visible. So because of such undissolved helpless condition, one needs to reach to point of seeking how he may be delivered from such helpless living with sin intact in the heart, and this is the only gist of the law before mankind. To reveal mankind’s wickedness or sinful nature (Mark 7:21-23) (Romans 3:20) and lead mankind to the only true deliverer of its sin. This deliverance can never happen anywhere else but in Christ, because He is the only Way that lead one to be put to death to the law as He took all mankind’s sins upon Himself through the baptism he received from John the Baptist at the River Jordan, paid the wages of every single sin of past, present and future He took from His baptism with His precious blood and resurrected on the third day to give a new life to us who have believed in this truth of our new Husband Jesus Christ and to you too only when you believe in this truth wholeheartedly. Hallelujah!!! That is why it is said in Romans 7 verse 4, that we have died to law through Christ. So this death to the law through Christ can only manifest in ones life, as one comes to believe wholeheartedly in this work performed by Jesus Christ Himself even, His baptism, death and resurrection.
Additionally, chapter 8 now gives us a total remembrance that we have completely died to the law and it curse when we hold on to the truth that Jesus took away all sins through His baptism, paid the price of sin with His blood on the cross and rose again to justify us wholly as He fulfilled all the righteousness of God (making all mankind sinless) (Matthew 3:15). So now that we have become married to Christ through our faith in both His baptism and death, there is now no condemnation to us, because Jesus has fulfilled all righteousness, and the Holy Spirit now dwells in us the believers, testifying that we are God’s children, freeing us from the law of sin and death, and assuring us that nothing can separate us from God’s love Amen. It also teaches us the believers to living not by the flesh (guilty, self-condemnation or unbelief of this truth) but rather to live by faith in the completed work of Christ. Amen!
Nevertheless, chapter 9 wholly teaches us that, salvation does not depend on us or anything else except through the completed work of Jesus Christ of both His baptism, death and resurrection as had planned by God the Father. Thus, everyone must erase the notions of thinking that God’s salvation for all mankind is somehow centred in favouritism, human will or effort but only on God’s mercy alone. To become part of God’s own people does not depend on physical attributes, lineage or ones works. Regardless who we are, everyone of us is only qualified to be part of God’s people only by faith the already completed work of Christ of both His baptism, and death. Because even the Israelites, are made His own people by covenant (Christ coming as the Messiah), so are we the Gentiles made God’s people by the same fulfilled promise (Jesus came as the Son of Man, that is, He came incarnated as the Savior, thus received baptism from John and took away all the sins of the world, died to pay the wages and rose again to give us new life even though we were orphans. Hallelujah!!!
So Romans 9 is a blessed chapter that is revealing the concrete purpose of God for all mankind, that is to show His mercy to everyone who receive the already fulfilled righteousness of His, through faith in the gospel truth of the water and the Spirit which constitutes both Jesus’s baptism, death and resurrection. Hallelujah!!! All Glory to Wisdom! I hope you come to humbly accept this truth by denying yourself and come to delight together in the beautiful already completed work of Christ as a bride of Christ. May God bless you.
Coworker Nazir, Zambia.