Romans
7:1 Know you not, brethren, for I speak to them that know the law,
how that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?
Paul is pointing
out in this chapter that when of higher consciousness, that is, 'in Christ',
one is dead to the law; what law? read the chapter and follow the links
you feel you should
Romans
7:2 For the woman which has an husband
is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives, but if the husband
be dead.(can
also mean metaphorical
death), she is loosed from the law of her husband..(*)
Romans
7:3 So then if, while her husband lives, 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.
Romans 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, you also are
become dead to the law by the body of Christ, that you should be married
to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring
forth fruit unto God.
Romans
7:4 Wherefore,
my brethren, you also are become dead
to the law by the body of Christ, that you should be married to another,
even to him who is raised from the dead,
that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Romans 7:5 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.
Romans
7:5 For when we were in the flesh.(*),
the motions of sins.(the
world is in you evidenced by actions one takes; it's talking about
a law of the flesh.{law
of the flesh is the ego level
of relating to others and to life, a way that brings for death and is not
that which most believe will happen to them?}.wherein
the motions of sin {motions are actions; what
is sin?} were harbored), which were by the law.(what
law produced negative results in our lives?.Romans
8:2), did work in our members.('work
in our members' is the effect our actions had upon us regarding our future
thinking and actions; we walked here, we drove there, we took a plane where,
we typed this, we wrote that, all the things we did for reasons of the
ego).to bring forth fruit unto death.(the
Mosaic
Law was to show us the evils of our
normal natures bathed in the low
consciousness of the mass
mind:.Romans
6:23; Romans 8:8; but they don't
separate us from God's love, only from becoming and being as He is
in character,
which is being of His high consciousness, which takes us out of the result
most people experience in their lives, death).
Romans 7:6 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.
Romans
7:6 But now we are delivered.(original
'removed from', 'apart from', 'away from', severed
from').from the law.(Paul
here and with verse 5, equates
law with the flesh; law has nothing
to do with the spiritual heart, only regulation of the physical:.Romans
8:9), that being dead.(dead
because, really, how much good did the
way we were locked into, as
it were, ever do to enliven us spiritually?).wherein
we were held.(didn't
know of a better way, blinded and unknowingly on the ego
pathway of death being cut
off from the Soul
by the ego); that we should serve in newness of spirit.(Romans
7:6).and not in the oldness of
the letter..(Galatians
3:26)
Romans 7:7 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, You shall not covet.
Romans
7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid.(the
law, speaking of the Old Testament law, called the
Mosaic Law, wasn't wrong; it was just wholly inadequate in things dealing
with the higher consciousness spiritual things of life; though now done
away, the principles are still good to apply both to a physical
society.and
beyond: Romans 3:20 and.*).
Nay, I had not known sin {1Corinthians
10:6}, but by the law. For I had not known lust, except the
law had said, You shall not covet..(this
is the law {Exodus 20:17} for those
in the ego level so they can become aware of those motivations in life
they have taken for granted but which nevertheless cause the world they
have made
for themselves:.Romans
13:10)
Romans
7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment.(see
previous verse; if we don't know something can affect us one way, we are
generally.curious
to find out once we hear about it), wrought in me all manner
of concupiscence.
For without the law sin was dead..(so
now we are without the law of rules and regulations and sin
is dead)
The
law of these rules and regulations were to show us that something else
was needed:.Romans
8:1-10; 1Corinthians 15:22;
Ephesians
2:10,13; Philippians 2:5;
3:3,14.
Romans 7:9 For I was alive
without the law once but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Romans
7:9 For I was alive without the law once.(just
like us today not realizing that we are in the grips of the ego level when
we live our lives getting by as best we can with the knowledge we have
acquired
along the way).but
when the commandment came.(something
had to show us that a better way is available; what commandment was this?
the commandment didn't show up delivered to his door like a letter, it
came to his mind, he became
illumined, became a new
person, came to see by becoming convicted
that his normal way of living was off track),
sin revived.(he
saw
clearly his nature which was so off base from spirituality).and
I died.(he realized
it was the normal nature of the consciousness
we all came with and need to learn of to move from, that was the way
of death for him:.Colossians
3:3).
Romans
7:10 And the commandment which was ordained to life, I found to be
unto death.(1Peter
2:11)..(because
it showed me how enveloped
I was in ego {death based} living).(Romans
7:10)
Romans 7:11 For sin taking
occasion by the commandment deceived me and by it slew me.
Romans
7:11 For sin.(sin
is us missing the mark
of happiness in life).taking
occasion by the commandment.(this
was the commandment that he came to understand to be of a higher standard
than what the ego standard was).deceived
me and by it slew me.".(the
ego is our established way of relating to life and feels fear when threatened
by anything it interprets as unsafe to its selfish ways)
Romans
7:12.Wherefore
the law is holy.(what
law is Paul talking of here, not the abolished
Mosaic Law which was a curse in itself {Galatians
3:10-14}, but this law:.Romans
8:2; this is the law that cuts
the bonds to the old consciousness ways).and
the commandment holy and just and good.
The Old Testament
Mosaic was abolished.(Galatians
3:24,25), why?.Hebrews
10:9), so this is talking about what law Paul here knew was now good;
what
law was that?; being brought up with the natures that we now use and
not knowing any better way, we have come to realize that the ego
was
our only lifeline to daily living; we know we deserve something better
but how to find that elusive 'something' we just can't put our finger on?
Romans 7:13 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.
Romans
7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me.(because
he knew what was the good way, but had trouble making what he knew to be
true in his heart a reality in his daily life)? God forbid. But
sin that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good.(the
light in him was illuminating the darkness in him), that sin by
the commandment might become exceeding sinful.(seeing
the darkness in him more clearly now, he saw just how terrible it really
was).
Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual.
But I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans
7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual.(this
was the law of love and its correlates,
because the Old Testament Mosaic Law was not
the law Paul was here talking about; why?
The Old Testament law had to go, in order to make way for something far
better:.Hebrew
7:12,19,22; 7:28; 8:6;
John
1:17; Romans 8:2; Galatians
3:19; {*}; what was better?.Matthew
22:36-40). But I.(Paul).am
carnal,
sold under sin.
Romans 7:15 For that which I do I allow not,
for what I would, that do I not, but what I hate that do I.
Romans
7:15 For that which I do I allow not.(I
don't really understand and approve of why I am the way that I am and why
it is that how I want to be, I have such a hard time being that way),
for what I would, that do I not, but what I hate that do I..(we
don't want to be the way that has contributed problems to our life, but
it takes effort to escape the grasp of our selfish 'pleasure for me' egos).
Romans
7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law.(verse
14 just above shows what law) that it is good.
Romans
7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin.(the
natural way of mankind leads him down a river
of no return, no return that is, until he reunites with his soul and
grows spiritually thereby).that
dwells in me.
Romans
7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing.(he
came to see what living from the ego level, the natural human natures we
have is all about), for to will is
present with me but how to perform that which is good I find not..(he
understands that something better is needed consistently;
how
to get it)
Romans
7:19 For the good that I would I do not. But the evil which I would
not, that I do.
Romans 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is
no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
Romans
7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but
sin that dwells in me..(Paul
recognized that there is a spiritual man developing and a self-centered
tempted man that is dying.(*),
that his real heart was to love God, that though he still had sin {don't
we all and what is sin?},
he knew that he was a new creation in and by Christ:.1Corinthians
15:22,31,36;
Ephesians 2:10;
Romans
8:2)
Romans 7:21 I find then a law that when I would
do good evil is present with me.
Romans
7:21 I find then a law.(the
law of ordinary consciousness
and what was that?.Romans
8:2).that when I would do good
evil is present with me..(Paul
here came to see that he was in
a prison; the ego feeds the
mass mind.thus
giving power to the evil in it:.2Timothy
3:13; Ecclesiastes
9:3:."...the heart of the sons of men is full of evil and madness
is in their heart while they live and after that they go to the dead.".{the
end result of the ego life is death})
Romans
7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the.inward
man..(*).(the
inward man is the subconscious, out of which comes our lives, how we act
and what comes to us in life; the subconscious can be affected for bringing
eternal life or, by default, living one's life from an ego
consciousness)
Romans 7:23 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.
Romans
7:23 But I see another law in my members warring against the law
of my mind.('the
law in my members' is the human nature he and us was born with, our natural
human nature, that of selfishness {the all for me advantage}, greed and
the other things
of the ordinary consciousness
of man; the law of his mind was what Paul decided was the way he now wanted
to live and that was the way of love, the way of high consciousness; the
'law of sin' equates
to the 'law in his members').and
bringing me into captivity to
the law of sin which is in my members..(the
ego is so physically concerned, it deems
the things of true spirituality as useless for its purposes of selfishness
and hurtful pleasures; it has no interest in escaping the idols of avarice
and worldly gain:.Luke
16:13)
Romans
7:24 O wretched
man that I am, who shall deliver me from the
body of this death?
Paul
realizes that the ego has him in a
prison delivering him to death; it's just the way the human
nature is.
Romans 7:25 I thank God through Emmanuel the Christ
our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law
of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans
7:25 I thank God.(thank
God for what? what's he thanking God for after explaining his conundrum
in verses 14-25? this).through
Emmanuel the Christ our Lord.(Paul
found the answer). So then with the mind I myself serve the law
of God.(his
heart was for reality, the
higher consciousness things of the Infinite One),
but with the flesh the law of sin.".(Paul's
daily living was still being overridden by the
ordinary consciousness ego level, example;
Paul
sees that the way out is of the mind being in higher consciousness and
that the ego will always be with him in the physical; Paul sees that one
needs always to be on the
alert for his own ego ways, always
a choice to make regarding what is in front of him; the
question to use in choicemaking? and, there is a
way out for Paul that he was apparently unaware of)
