ADDRESSES ON ROMANS
SUPPLEMENT TO CHAPTER SEVEN
A FURTHER WORD TO LEGALISTS
Since our study of chapter seven over the radio, I have received letters from legalists who ask, "If we are no longer under the Law of Moses, do we have a right to steal. to kill, or to commit adultery?" My friend, can you imagine a per- son's asking this question after studying the first seven chap- ters of Romans? We have learned that we are dead to sin, and aliv~ unto God. If we yield our members as instruments of righteousness, then God gives us victory over the power of sin by the Holy Spirit. 1. THE LAW OF CHRIST. To say that we are free from the law, does not mean that we are not under any law. We are under the law of Christ, which is "the royal law" of love (James 2: 8); and "love is the fulfllling of the law" (Rom. 13: 10). The law of Christ is to believ~-\".~JJ!_pnd to love our neighbor as ourselves. That will takecare"l5titealing and all other sins. We are under a higher law than that of the Mosaic Law. We are governed by the Holy Spirit. I might say, in this connection, that the law of Christ reiterates nine of the ten commandments of the Mosaic Law. The only one not in the law of Christ is the fourth; yet, strangely enough, it is the one which legalists emphasize more than any other. Let me prove this from the Word of God by listing below New Testament quotations which reiterate nine of the ten commandments in explaining to us the law of Christ. Other New Testament references might be cited. And please note . that the New Testament command regarding the seventh-day Sabbath positively forbids its observance by Christians.
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