Love Fulfilled Ministry

" Now we have been released from the law, having died to that which we were bound, in order to serve in the newness of Spirit and not in the oldness of letter ." 1 Paul writes that the very commandments that promised life brought death to him. The Law is not sin nor death, no, it is good, just, but sin took occasion to produce death, through the Law it abounded. The Law exposed transgression, but now we have been released from the law... in  order to serve in the newness of Spirit.  Jesus came to release us from sin and the Law, this is the dispensation of Grace. The Law gave no power to overcome sin, the Law was a launch pad for sin. Paul writes, he was alive but, " sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. " 3     This word for opportunity is aphormḗ ("away from" and "a violent rush") – properly, a pretext ("launching point") to assert ...