How God Released His People from the Covenant of the Law

 Part 2

From Mount Sinai on, the Jewish people were bound to keep the Law by their blood covenant marriage to God. (Exodus 24:6-8, Jeremiah 31:31-32).

Because God's righteous Law revealed sin, it brought death. (Romans 3:20).

God wanted to release His people from a covenant that brought death and bring them a new covenant where “I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

How could God release His people from their marriage covenant?

Apostle Paul explains:

"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?

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit [the gospel], and not in the oldness of the letter [law]." - Romans 7:1-6 KJV

Paul is explaining the law of marriage. As long as a woman’s husband is alive, she is bound by the law to her husband. If she marries another man, she is called an adulteress. BUT if her husband is dead, she is not an adulteress even though she marries another man.

How did God as husband to His people release them from their marriage covenant of the Law? He manifested Himself in flesh and died.

By His death, the Jewish people were released from their marriage covenant of the Law to marry another, even to Him that is raised from the dead, Jesus.

To be continued…