text: Fish and kale creole Family & kids recipes School & Family 0 Prep: Cook: Age Suitability: Meal Type: Portion: Freezable: Continues below ad Makes 4 portions. Preparation time 10 mins. Cooking time 20 mins Ingredients ingredients 1 tbsp oil 1 onion, chopped 250g mushrooms, halved 75g Patak's Mild Curry Paste 410g can chickpeas, drained and rinsed 400g can chopped tomatoes 200g bag ready prepared kale 300g tiger prawns200g bag ready prepared kale 1 tbsp oil 1 onion, chopped 1 tbsp Cajun seasoning 195g can sweetcorn, drained 400g can chopped tomatoes 400g cod, cut into large chunks 227g can pineapple slices in natural juice, cut into chunks Recipe courtesy of Discover Kale. Method method Cook the kale in boiling for water for 5 minutes. Heat the oil in a large saucepan and fry the onion for 5 minutes. Add the Cajun seasoning and sweetcorn for 1 minute. Add the tomatoes, kale and 150ml water, cover and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the cod and pineapple simmer for a further 5 minutes until cooked through. Serve with mashed potato. Hints & Tips Family & kids recipes School & Family Last updated: 18/11/2010 00:01:39 By Rachel Malcolm 0 Comments Share Like this article? Showing of Uh-oh! You need to be logged in to do this... Sign In Sign Up Load more posts Write a comment Related Articles Healthy eating for toddlers Foods to encourage and avoid, from birth to 1 year Feeding rice to your baby Feeding fish to your baby Animal pasta with tomato, sweet potato and cheese Latest on Made For Mums Community Getting Pregnant Pregnancy Baby Toddler & Child Product Reviews & Shopping Competitions News & Gossip


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Volume 18 Issue 33 | Dec. 30 - Jan. 6, 2006
Put the Freedom Tower on hold
If tomorrow we could open the Freedom Tower as well as a new building to replace the shrouded Deutsche Bank building haunting the World Trade Center site, wed be years ahead of where we are now but wed have the same problem. The site would still look like a hole in the ground.
Rebuilding Church St. is the fastest way to bring life back to the site and that must be the urgent focus rather than constructing a symbolic building on West St. that will be hard to rent and may only increase the pessimism after it opens. Construction is ready to begin on the Freedom Tower in April but finding tenants there will be hard. As one business leader told us, the building has a constituency of one: Gov. George Pataki. W.T.C. developer Larry Silverstein originally wanted to build closer to Church St. first and he was right.
We were delighted that Silverstein announced two weeks ago that Norman Foster would design Tower 2 on Church and Vesey Sts. and even happier when Lord Foster told us his first priority for the corner is to make it lively. Many of our readers still longingly recall the corner where Borders Books helped make the W.T.C. mall the countrys most profitable per square foot. Tower 2 should be easier to rent because it will be adjacent to the magnificent train station where construction began last month.
With Silversteins continued problems renting out 7 W.T.C. across the street in spite of generous government incentives, it is foolish to rush into building the sites least viable building. We are well aware of the real, collective psychological harm that will be caused by delaying construction yet again, but that short-term pain is well worth it if we can rebuild viable buildings quicker.
It doesnt matter to us whether any officials acknowledge mistakes as they shift the focus, just that they do. But mea culpas are not hard and well start. Up until now, we have criticized aspects of the rebuilding plans, but have endorsed the general thrust. We should have recognized sooner the danger of beginning construction on the sites west side.
The Port Authority, which owns the site, says that Silverstein could start building Tower 2 in 2007 and Towers 3 and 4 in the middle of 2008, when the protective bathtub for the Church St. buildings is complete. The Port holds out the chance of speeding up the timetable by six months. It is clear to us that both parties need more of a sense of urgency on Church St. and they should commit right now to the fastest possible timetable. The Port should have been working sooner to design and build the bathtub which they have known for years would be necessary. The P.A., which is controlled by Pataki and the governor of New Jersey, has had the money to begin constructing the protection at least since this summer when the Federal Transit Administration authorized it.
Mayor Mike Bloomberg has focused on the right issues as we prepare to build getting as much of the construction done at the same time as possible and building buildings the marketplace will support. Most, if not all of the remaining $3.35 billion in Liberty Bonds should go to the W.T.C. but that money can be spent on hotels and retail stores in addition to offices. The P.A. should prepare the Church St. underground infrastructure, and bill back the developer later for the developers fair share.
As for the Freedom Tower, we are beyond symbolism, which does not translate to commercial viability.
In the hard copy edition of the editorial in this weeks Downtown Express, the Port Authority claimed that developer Larry Silverstein would be able to begin foundation work at the World Trade Center sites Church St. lots in the spring of 2006, but the P.A. has now retracted its assertion. Steve Coleman, a P.A. spokesperson, made the original claim, but in a followup interview after press time, Coleman said he was misinformed and withdrew his previous statements.
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- Overall Length:9.625"
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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and if youire just not involved with any seasonal or religious festivities right now, Happy Weekend! With Christmas itself coming on a Sunday, weire taking a half-day approach to giving the staff some time off, and that means weire knocking off early on Friday, and will resume publishing on Monday afternoon.
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The demand to create tabloid size hard cover books is growing strong for photo book and yearbook printers. ODM's XXL Series is easily 'scalable' to fit your production requirements enabling you to produce hard cover books from wallet to 18" x 18" tabloid size, up to 4" thick.
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A sleepy town, one black marble hidden
in among the daffodils, the small birds crying
sharp edge of a cloud, the road appears and disappears.
Cloudy water in a blue glass in the kitchen.
A red ball in the leaves that longs to roll away,
an ancient tree, an evening dragon.
The birds are glad on their branches.
Drift of thought inside the church
of bones and vines, a small invisible sun
behind fat luminous clouds, a treasure in a buried eye
like this expensive private rain, their careful radiance
the secret music as the black comes down
the dogs join in, the lights go on
along these silver fences, faded persons
watch the moon, the earth lies quiet.
The birds begin a skinny Monday tune,
the clouds come close, they swell and furl
the man comes by to pick the trash
for a majesty unbleached or a tiny private empire
or rusty tools, old paper, insects in their armor
the last thin sweat of September
a small blue hand preserved in a jar.
Sometimes she walks around talking to bees.
The other day I saw her standing on the corner
with her arm around a crow, tiny angels
walking in the raggedy grass. Light through the blinds throws
shadow on the far wall.


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Here is the poster I did for the "Intensity in 10 Cities" tour, featuring Hello Kelly and To Tell. Hello Kelly asked me to do this poster and some other variations of it. They wanted it to be intense and stuff, with bombs or something. I decided on this Russian missile and to give it kinda like an old WWII/Cold War theme. Those were pretty intense moments in time and they possessed lots of cool silk screen, one colour posters. I like how it turned out.


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Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. (NASB: Lockman)
Greek: hoste adelphoi mou, kai humeis ethanatothete (2PAPI) to nomo dia tou somatos tou Christou, eis to genesthai (AMN) humas hetero to ek nekron egerqenti, (AAPMSD) hina karpophoresomen (1PAAS) to theo
Amplified: Likewise, my brethren, you have undergone death as to the Law through the [crucified] body of Christ, so that now you may belong to Another, to Him Who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God. (Amplified Bible - Lockman)
Barclay: Just so, my brothers, you have died to the law, through the body of Jesus Christ (for you shared in his death by baptism) in order that you should enter into union with another, I mean, with him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit to God. (Westminster Press)
NLT: So this is the point: The law no longer holds you in its power, because you died to its power when you died with Christ on the cross. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, you can produce good fruit, that is, good deeds for God. (NLT - Tyndale House)
Phillips: There is, I think, a fair analogy here. The death of Christ on the cross had made you "dead" to the claims of the Law, and you are free to give yourselves in marriage, so to speak, to another, the one who was raised from the dead, that you may be productive for God. (Phillips: Touchstone)
Wuest: So that, my brethren, as for you, you also were put to death with reference to the law through the intermediate agency of the body of Christ, resulting in your being married to another, to the One who was raised up from among the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. (Eerdmans)
Young's Literal: So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;
to RIGHTEOUSNESS
|Romans — 3:21-5:21
|Romans — 6:1-8:39
|Romans — 9:1-11:36
|Romans — 12:1-16:27
|God's Holiness
|God's Grace
|God's Power
|God's Sovereignty
Jew and Gentile
|Gods Glory
Object of
of Sin
of Grace
|Demonstration of Salvation
|Power Given
|Promises Fulfilled
|Paths Pursued
Restored to Israel
|God's Righteousness
|God's Righteousness
|God's Righteousness
|God's Righteousness
|God's Righteousness
|Slaves to Sin
|Slaves to God
|Slaves Serving God
|Life by Faith
|Service by Faith
Modified from Irving L. Jensen's excellent work "Jensen's Survey of the NT"
THEREFORE MY BRETHREN, YOU ALSO WERE MADE TO DIE TO THE LAW THROUGH THE BODY OF CHRIST: hoste adelphoi mou, kai humeis ethanatothete (2PAPI) to nome dia tou somatos tou Christou: (Romans 7:6; 6:14; 8:2; Gal 2:19,20; 3:13; 5:18; Eph 2:15; Col 2:14,20)
In Galatians Paul states a parallel truth writing that…
through the Law I died to the Law (cp Ga 3:10,13, 24), so that I might live to God.
Comment: What does the first [somewhat difficult to grasp] clause mean? The law condemns and subjects all men to the death penalty. Think of the situation where a man is found guilty of a capital offense and is executed. What power does the law have over this dead man? And by the same token, Paul is saying [and the next verse makes this even clearer - Ga 2:20-note] I have died with Christ [Ro 6:3-note] and Christ took the full brunt of the penalty that was justly due to me for breaking the law, though He Himself was not guilty of breaking any law [He 4:15-note, 1Pe 1:18, 19-note]. And so God's righteous justice was propitiated or satisfied when the full fury of His holy wrath was poured out upon the Lamb of God Who took away [Jn 1:29, 1Pe 2:24, 25-note, cp Re 5:6-note, Re 5:9-note] Paul's [and every believer's] sins, so that Paul [and every believer] is forever free of the death penalty imposed by the law.
Middletown Bible has a useful table comparing the truths in Romans 6 and Romans 7…
|Key Word in Chapter
(see Ro 6:1, 2, 6, 7, 10-23)
11 times
(see Ro 7:1-14, 16, 22, 25)
18 times
|Believer's Relationship
|Believer's Relationship
to Sin
|Believer's Relationship
to Law
|Sin had dominion
(Ro 6:14)
|The Law had dominion
(Ro 7:1)
|I died to (the) Sin
(Ro 6:2)
|I died to the law
(Ro 7:4)
|Free from Sin
(Ro 6:18)
|Free (delivered) from the law
(Ro 7:3,6)
|Walk in newness of LIFE
(Ro 6:4)
|Serve in newness of SPIRIT
(Ro 7:6)
|Fruit of Flesh
Fruit of Spirit (God's life)
|Romans 6:21KJV
Romans 6:22KJV
|Romans Ro 7:5
Romans Ro 7:4
Therefore (5620) (hoste) means so that, consequently, accordingly, thus. This opening word indicates that illustration is now giving way to application. It draws an inference from the preceding illustration and introduces the actual relation with respect to Christians who are in a position corresponding with that of the wife.
Made to die (2289) (thanatoo [word study] from thánatos = death) means literally to kill, to cause to be put to death, to mortify, to give up to death, to condemn to death or to deliver over to death. And so in the NT some uses are literal (Mt 10:21, 26:59, 27:1, Mk 13:12, 14:55) and mean to cause cessation of life as by condemning to death or delivering/handing one over to be killed.
In Ro 7:4 thanatoo is used figuratively in reference to the death that the believer dies through supernatural, mystical but very real unity with the body of the crucified Christ. The aorist tense conveys the truth that this "death" is a past tense, historical event. Count it as true. Praise Him that it is true. Then walk in the light of that truth. Don't place yourself back under the "yoke" of the law in any form! Even "good things" can subtly become "laws" -- e.g., "If I don't have my quiet time this morning, the Lord won't bless me." Wrong! The Lord blesses you not because you merit blessing but because He is good. Sure, He blesses obedience, but our obedience is to be out of love, not legalistic constraints, out of a desire to please our Father, not puff up our flesh. So don't be deceived beloved brethren for our spirit is willing but our flesh is weak, so we must continually be on guard and continually surrendered to His sweet will, not some legalistic yoke.
In another very practical figurative use of thanatoo Paul instructs believers to mortify (cp Col 3:5KJV-note) or subdue the evil desires and deeds that emanate from those desires (Ro 8:13 -note). By using the present tense in Ro 8:13 Paul is calling for a habitual, moment by moment effort (albeit not "self" effort, but Spirit enabled effort) on the part of believers to "search and destroy" these death dealing deeds. We need to have the continual mindset of soldiers who are continually engaged (Take no "furloughs" please dear believer! Your adversary doesn't! cp 1Pe 5:8-note where "prowls" = continually) in a deadly conflict (1Pe 2:11-note, 2Ti 2:3, 4-note) and must continually be killing sin (by the Spirit), lest sin kill us. Remember that "death" speaks of separation so what a believer enabled by the Spirit is to do is to separate moment by moment, day by day from the evil, dead dealing deeds of the fallen flesh nature (Jas 1:14, 15-note). Remember brethren beloved by God (1Th 1:4-note), that He saved us by grace through faith (Ep 2:8, 9-note) the first time (justification - Ro 3:24-note, Ro 3:28-note) and He saves us each day by that same grace through faith (progressive sanctification). Our tendency is to try to live this supernatural life in our strength (flesh), not the strength of His Spirit (faith). God says in Roman 6-8, stop "trying" and start "dying" (to your flesh), and do this every day and every moment of every day! Trying breeds struggling and frustration. Dying yields surrender and fulfillment. In Romans 7 Paul will make it all too clear that one cannot be sanctified by the law. To reiterate, the moment you try to please God by keeping a list of do's and don'ts, of regulations, of schedules, etc, then at that moment you have in effect placed yourself back up under the law in one form or another and your experience will mimic that of Paul's description in Romans 7. And as Paul explains in the next verse, when you place yourself under the law, the law functions like a stimulant or a catalyst to arouse your sinful passions (Ro 7:5)! Beware! Legalism can be very subtle!
Thanatoo -11x in 11 verses in the NAS - Matt. 10:21; 26:59; 27:1; Mk. 13:12; 14:55; Lk. 21:16; Rom. 7:4; 8:13, 36; 2 Co. 6:9; 1 Pet. 3:18 and is rendered in the NAS as cause to be put to death(1), made to die(1), put to death(8), putting to death(1).
Note that the Law has not died. Believers have been made to die (passive voice = divine passive = God brought about this supernatural event, not us. We became sharers and participants in this truth by grace through faith!) to the Law. Paul avoids saying that the Law died, for that is not taught in Scripture, though the law had a certain course to run as explained in Hebrews (cp He 8:13NLT-note). Paul is continuing the emphasis which he had begun to explain in Romans 6, where he introduced the truth that death ends obligation, having stated in Ro 6:14 (see note) that believers are no longer under (under the power, authority, and control of) law, but under grace".
In Galatians Paul explained that
Christ redeemed (bought us back, delivered us by paying the price = His precious blood) us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse (which condemned us to die) for (on our behalf, speaking of His substitutionary death) us (Galatians 3:13)
In Colossians he explained that God
cancelled and blotted out and wiped away the handwriting of the note (bond) with its legal decrees and demands which was in force and stood against us (hostile to us). This [note with its regulations, decrees, and demands] He set aside and cleared completely out of our way by nailing it to [His] cross. (Col 2:14-note)
Paul went on to explain that
(believers) have died with Christ (believer's union with Christ in His death and resurrection) to the elementary principles of the world… (Col 2:20-note)
Writing to the churches in Galatia Paul explained that
I have been crucified with Christ (the believer is identified with Christ in His death) and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me (Jesus did not die for me in order that I might go on living as I choose but that from now on He might live His life in and through me, empowering me by His Spirit to live in a supernatural way previously not possible in my strength) and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith (reliance and continual dependence on Christ, yielding to Him, allowing Him to live His life through me) in the Son of God, Who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me." (Gal 2:20-note)
Christ, not the law, now is to have dominion over me. Stated another way, the believer's rule of life is Christ and not the law. It is not a matter of striving and trying, but of trusting and relying. Believers are called and empowered to live a holy life (1Pe 1:14-note, 1Pe 1:15, 16-note, Lv 11:44), not out of fear of punishment, but out of love of God and a desire to be pleasing to Him as our Father (cp 1Pe 1:17NLT-note, 2Co 5:9, 2Co 7:1-note in context of the promises in 2Co 6:16, 17, 18).
As Middletown Bible reminds us "The law is a terrible husband -- strict, inflexible, stern, rigid, demanding and unbending. The Lord is a wonderful husband -- merciful, gracious, and He, by His power and life, ENABLES me to please Him (cp He 13:21NLT, He 13:20NLT-note). Just as a marriage relationship produces FRUIT (children), so our marriage to Christ produces fruit (see Ro 6:22ESV-note; Ga 5:22-note, Ga 5:23-note). See also John 15:2, 5, 8 = "fruit" > "more fruit" > "much fruit." (Romans chapter 7)
Through (1223) (dia) marker of instrument by which something is accomplished, by means of.
The body of Christ (Mt 26:26; Jn 6:51; 1Cor 10:16; Heb 10:10; 1Pet 2:24-note) - This is not a reference to the church (also referred to as "the body of Christ", cp Ep 4:12-note), since the word has not been used in the corporate, mystical sense so far in Romans, and when it is so used (Ro 12:4, 5-note) Paul brings in the human body as an analogy in order to make his meaning clear, as he had done in an earlier letter (1Cor 12:12, 13).
Newell writes that…
The great lesson which each of us must lay to his own heart, is, that those in Christ, whether Jew or Gentile, are not under law as a principle, but under grace (Ro 6:14-note),—full, accomplished Divine favor—that favor shown by God to Christ! And the life of the believer now is
(1) in faith, not effort: as Paul speaks in Gal 2:20 (note):
The life which I now live in the (physical) flesh, I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God
(2) in the power of the indwelling Spirit; for walking by the Spirit (Gal 5:16-note, Ga 5:18-note, Ga 5:25-note) has taken the place of walking by external commandments; and
(3) exercising ourselves to have a good conscience toward God and men always (1Ti 1:5, 19, 1Pe 3:16-note): particularly, not wrongly using our freedom (or liberty) (Take a moment and ponder these passages on freedom in Christ = Ro 8:2-note, Ga 5:1, cp Ga 2:4, Jn 8:31, 32, 34, 36, 1Co 7:22NLT, 2Co 3:17NIV, 1Pe 2:16NLT-note, 2Pe 2:19NLT-note, Jude 4NIV). (Romans - Verse by Verse)
THAT YOU MIGHT BE JOINED TO ANOTHER TO HIM WHO WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD: eis to genesthai (AMN) humas hetero to ek nekron egerthenti (AAPMSD): (Ps 45:10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; Isa 54:5; 62:5; Hos 2:19,20; Jn 3:29; 2Cor 11:2; Eph 5:23, 24, 25, 26, 27; Rev 19:7; 21:9)
Paul now spells out two purposes of our union Christ (in His death): (1) We might belong to Christ and (2) We are to be fruit bearers for the glory of God.
Stop for a moment and contrast our new relationship in Christ with our former relationship under the law - we are dead to the law and married to Christ. Our relationship is now a love relationship not a legal (law) relationship. What a wonder, that the God Who created us, redeemed us and then marries us! Surely we see in this how Christianity is not a dead, even orthodox religion but a relationship to a living Person. Beloved, Paul is explaining that Christianity is not about doing something but about knowing Someone (cp Jn 17;3, 1Jn 2:3, 4). Never lose the wonder of this grand truth and lapse into legalistic religion when you could be enjoying intimate relationship with the God of the Universe! Amazing love, how can it be?…
And Can It Be That I Should Gain
And can it be that I should gain
An interest in the Savior's blood?
Died He for me, who caused His pain—
For me, who Him to death pursued?
Amazing love! How can it be,
That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
Amazing love! How can it be,
That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
See and listen also to…
Gaithers And Can It Be That I Should Gain live
Amazing Love
Chris Tomlin - Amazing Love
Joined (be married to, might belong to, becoming another's) (1096) (ginomai) means to cause to become or to come into existence and more literally "having become another man's". If you are dead, how can you be joined to another? In Christ's death we died and in Christ's resurrection we live and since we are alive we can be joined in marriage to Christ! Amen.
And so in a mystical (but very real) sense believers are now united to Christ as His bride (Ep 5:25-note) for we have been betrothed to our Beloved (2Co 11:2) and betrothal in the Jewish culture was tantamount to a legal binding relationship and to break it one had to get a writ of divorce (cp Joseph contemplating breaking the "engagement" to Mary in Mt 1:18, 19, 20). As a woman could marry a new husband only after her first husband had died, so we have been married, as it were, to our great Bridegroom after we died to the law (Re 19:7-note, Re 19:8-note, cp 1Co 6:19, 20).
To belong to Christ involves participation not only in his death but also in His resurrection (cp Col 2:12-note, cp Ro 6:3-note, Ro 6:4-note, 2Co 13:4). Severance from obligation to serve the law is only part of the truth. We are married, as it were, to the risen Lord, with a view to bearing fruit to God. Perhaps an analogy is intended here--as a marriage produces progeny, so the believer's union with Christ results in spiritual fruit. It should be recalled that in our Lord's teaching the secret of fruit bearing is union with Himself (Jn 15:5, 7, 8), emphasized here in Romans 7:6.
THAT WE MIGHT BEAR FRUIT FOR GOD: hina karpophoresomen (1PAAS) to theo: (Ro 6:22; Jn 15:8; Gal 5:22,23; Phil 1:11; 4:17; Col 1:6,10)
That (2443) (hina) is a marker of result or of purpose for the fact that believers are in Christ, having been born again to a new Master with a new Power and Purpose in Christ.
Bear fruit (2592) (karpophoreo from karpos = fruit + phero = to bring) literally means to bring forth fruit, to be fertile, productive. In John 15 those who abide in the Vine Christ Jesus, will bring forth "much fruit" ("good works").
Karpophereo is in the subjunctive mood which with hina (conjunction meaning "for the purpose of", "in order that") is used to express purpose -- fruit bearing. If you are a believer and feel you have no "purpose", here it is… go and bear fruit, much fruit, fruit that remains for eternity. Focus on the facts not on your feelings. Let this truth renew your mind if you are downcast.
The aorist tense calls for this to be an actual outcome (fruit bearing).
Some commentators (even some very excellent expositors like Lloyd-Jones) interpret fruit as literal children (continuing with Paul's metaphor of marriage), an interpretation that seems incorrect even from the context. In other words, who is a believer joined to? Christ of course, so it seems far fetched to think Paul intends fruit in such a context to be children. Could he mean "spiritual children"? I suppose one cannot totally discount that possibility for converts are occasionally referred to as "fruit".
Newman writes that Paul's metaphor of bear fruit...
may have the specific meaning of "bringing others to God," but in the present context the emphasis seems to be more general, that is, simply living a life that is useful to God. In some languages, useful in the service of God may be expressed as "doing good for God's sake" or "doing good as a way of serving God." (The United Bible Societies' New Testament Handbook Series)
Stott goes on to add that…
whether 'fruit' means 'children' or not, all are agreed that the result of being released from the law and joined to Christ is holy living, not antinomian license. For becoming a Christian involves a radical change of allegiance. At the end of chapter 6 our two slaveries were contrasted. At the beginning of chapter 7 it is our two marriages, death dissolving the first and so permitting the second. Both metaphors speak of our new freedom to serve, which is the topic to which Paul now comes. (Stott, J. R. W. The Message of Romans. Leicester, England; Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press)
Matthew Poole says fruit refers to…
fruits of holiness and good works, to the glory and praise of God.
Jamieson writes that…
all the issues of this new life, in Christian obedience, are regarded as the "fruit" of this blessed union to the Risen One.
KJV Bible Commentary writes that…
The purpose of our being free from the law and married to another, the risen Lord, is that we may produce fruit unto God. Although this may be an extension of the marriage analogy, and the fruit mentioned is the progeny which is the result of marriage (i.e., the winning of others to the Lord), it is most likely that the fruit unto God is a righteous life which is characterized by those "good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them" (Eph 2:10-note). (Dobson, E G, Charles Feinberg, E Hindson, Woodrow Kroll, H L. Wilmington: KJV Bible Commentary: Nelson)
John MacArthur's comments that…
Godly fruit exists basically in two dimensions: (a transformed life that manifests godly) attitudes and actions. The fruit of the Holy Spirit in a believer's life is manifested internally in his attitudes of "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control" (Gal. 5:22-note, Ga 5:23-note). As far as godly actions are concerned, Jesus said, "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vine dresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may bear more fruit" (John 15:1, 2). The writer of Hebrews speaks of "the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name" (He 13:15-note), and Paul prayed that Philippian believers would be prepared for the day of Christ by being "filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God" (Php 1:11-note).
Charles Simeon (Horae Homileticae Vol 15: Romans) says that …
By our connection with the law, we have brought forth fruit only unto sin and death: but by the mighty operation of divine grace, we shall be enabled to bring forth fruit unto God, and holiness, and life (Ro 6:21, 22-note). We shall no longer live under the influence of a slavish spirit, aiming only at the mere letter of the commandment, and regarding even that as an irksome service; but we shall aspire after the utmost spirit of the commandment, and strive with holy ardour to make the highest possible attainments, longing, if possible, to be "holy as God is holy," (1Pe 1:16-note) and to be "perfect as God is perfect." (Mt 5:48-note) Our services will resemble those of the heavenly choir, who look, and watch, and pant, as it were, for an opportunity to testify their love to God, and to execute, in all its extent, His holy will. How should the prospect of such fruit stimulate our desires after Christ! Let us bear in mind, that the bringing of us to such a state was the great object which He sought in giving up Himself for us (1Pe 2:24-note); and let it be also the great object of our solicitude in devoting ourselves to Him (Ro 14:7, 8-note)
Notice that Paul moved from the second person plural (you) to the first person plural (we), including himself along with his readers. The believer who has died with Christ is released from bondage to the law and hence from bondage to sin and is free to experience the abundant life of Christ (Jn 10:10b). God's purpose in all this is in order that we might bear fruit to God (cp Ro 6:22-note Gal 5:22, 23- notes-Ga 5:22; 23 Php 1:11- note). Only a person who is spiritually alive can bear spiritual fruit, fruit that remains (cf. Jn 15:4,5,16). (See also word study on fruit = karpos)
As believers we are not to continue in sin (Ro 6:1-note) but we are now in Christ and married to our Savior, Jesus, and our occupation is to bear fruit for God…
For we are His workmanship (poiema), created in Christ Jesus for good works (see Good Deeds), which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Ep 2:10-note).
In sum, Paul is saying that before faith in Christ's death, burial and resurrection, we were ''married'' to a husband named ''the Law''. But when we died with Christ in Romans 6, we were set free from our husband and united with our new Husband, Christ. The old ''husband'' is not dead… believers are the ones who have died.
Barnes writes that bring forth fruit means…
That we should live a holy life. This is the point and scope of all this illustration. The new connexion is such as will make us holy. It is also implied that the tendency of the law was only to bring forth fruit unto death, Ro 6:5 and that the tendency of the gospel is to make man holy and pure. Comp. Ga 5:22,23. (Albert Barnes. Barnes NT Commentary)
Barnhouse has the following thoughts on fruit…
One of the most important purposes of redemption is that we might bring forth fruit unto God. We were transplanted out of death and rooted and grounded in His love so that we might bring forth fruit. Fruit is the expression of life, and in the Word of God fruit is indicative of converts, character, and conduct…
"Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me" (John 15:4). This is a magnificent expansion of our text in Romans which sets forth our oneness with Christ, our marriage to Him to bring forth fruit for God. "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for without me you can do nothing" (v. 5). How many Christians read it, "Without me you cannot do very much," cling to their own imagined ability, and so fail to bear fruit! God never mingles His power with ours. Only when we recognize our own absolute nothingness does He work in full power. (Barnhouse, D. G. God's Freedom : Romans 6:1-7:25. Grand Rapids, MI.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company)
Robert Haldane writes that…
One of the great ends of marriage was to people the world, and the end of the marriage of believers to Christ is, that they may bring forth fruit to God, John 15:4, 5, 6, 7, 8. From this it is evident that no work is recognized as fruit unto God before union with Christ. All works that appear to be good previous to this union with Christ are "dead works," (He 9:14-note) proceeding from self–love, self–gratification, pride, self–righteousness, or other such motives. "They that are in the flesh cannot please God." (Ro 8:8-note) "The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." (Ro 8:7-note) We can never look upon the law with a friendly eye till we see it disarmed of the sting of death; and never can bear fruit unto God, nor delight in the law as a rule, till we are freed from it as a covenant, and are thus dead unto sin. How important, then, is the injunction, "Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin,"—and this applies equally to the law,—"but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord," Romans 6:11. (Romans 7 Commentary)
Newell adds that…
It is implicitly asserted here that those under law could not bring forth fruit to God. Because, in order to bring forth such fruit, they had to be made dead to the Law. This cannot be sufficiently emphasized, for all about us we find those who are earnestly seeking to bear fruit to God, while "entangled with the yoke of bondage," (Ga 5:1KJV) not knowing themselves dead to the legal principle… No, it is only those who see themselves to have died with Christ and to be now joined to a Risen Christ in glory, that fully bring forth fruit to God.
It Is a glorious day when a believer sees himself only in a Risen Christ—dead, buried and risen; and can say with another, "I am not in the flesh, not in the place of a child of Adam at all, but delivered out of it by redemption. The whole scene of a living man, this world in which the life of Adam develops itself, and of which the Law is the moral rule, I do not belong to, before God, more than a man who died ten years ago out of it." (Romans Verse by Verse)
Romans 7:5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. (NASB: Lockman)
Greek: hote gar emen (1PIAI) en te sarki, ta pathemata ton hamartion ta dia tou nomou energeito (3SIMI) en tois melesin hemon eis to karpophoresai (AAN) to thanato;
Amplified: When we were living in the flesh (mere physical lives), the sinful passions that were awakened and aroused up by [what] the Law [makes sin] were constantly operating in our natural powers (in our bodily organs, in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh), so that we bore fruit for death. (Amplified Bible - Lockman)
NLT: When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced sinful deeds, resulting in death. (NLT - Tyndale House)
Phillips: While we were "in the flesh" the Law stimulated our sinful passions and so worked in our nature that we became productive - for death! (Phillips: Touchstone)
Wuest: For when we were in the sphere of the sinful nature, the impulses of the sins which were through the law were operative in our members, resulting in the production of fruit with respect to death. (Eerdmans)
Young's Literal: for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that are through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;
FOR WHILE WE WERE (past tense) IN THE FLESH (unregenerate): hote gar hemen en te sarki: (Ro 8:8,9; Jn 3:6; Gal 5:16,17,24; Eph 2:3,11; Titus 3:3)
Were is in the imperfect tense which speaks of durative action (= action that is ongoing, progressive or continual) in the past (when you were unregenerate). At that time we were dead in our trespasses and sins and under the rule and control of our fallen sin nature inherited from Adam. We had no choice but to obey the strong desires of our unregenerate flesh.
Flesh (4561)(sarx) (Click in depth study) is used 147 times in the NT and because of multiple nuances (some Greek lexicons list up to 11 definitions for sarx!) the diligent disciple must carefully observe the context of in order to discern which nuance is intended. The range of meaning extends from the substance flesh (both human and animal), to the human body, to the entire person, and to all humankind.
In the present context, sarx is used in the moral/ethical or spiritual sense to describe the outlook of mankind which is continually orientated toward self, is prone to sin, is opposed to God and which pursues its own ends in self-sufficient, independence from God. Flesh thus is the ugly complex of human sinful desires that includes the ungodly motives, affections, principles, purposes, words, and actions that sin generates through our bodies. Sarx as used in this manner denotes the entire fallen human being—not just the sinful body but the entire being, including the soul and mind, as affected by sin. To live in the flesh is to be ruled and controlled by that evil complex. Because of Christ's saving work on our behalf, the sinful flesh no longer has the "right" to reign over us, to debilitate us and drag us back into the pit of depravity into which we were all born.
Believers need to understand that there is this remnant of the old flesh nature within our physical bodies of flesh. In contrast to the unregenerate man, believers now have the power when led by the Holy Spirit to say "yes" to God and "no" to the flesh, whereas before our union with Christ in Romans 6 (Ro 6:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11-see notes on Ro 6:1-3; 6:4-5; 6:6-7; 6:8-10; 6:11) took place, we had no choice. Paul teaches clearly that the flesh is opposed to Spirit. The unbeliever can live only in the flesh, but the believer can live in the Spirit but can fall back into living according to the flesh. Paul repeatedly encourages believers to overcome the deeds of the flesh in the only way possible - by living in the Spirit.
In the flesh - Here are all the NT uses (in the NAS) of this phrase - Ro 2:28; 7:5; 8:3, 8, 9; 2Co 10:3; 12:7; Ga 2:20; 6:12; Ep 2:11; Phil 1:22, 24; 3:3, 4; 1Ti 3:16; Philemon 1:16; 1Pet. 3:18; 4:1, 2, 6; 1Jn. 4:2; 2 Jn. 1:7. Most of these uses of in the flesh describe one's physical being, the literal body, a number of these in fact specifically referring to the Incarnation or Christ in the flesh. The following 4 verses however use in the flesh to refer to man's unredeemed humanness, his own ability and achievements apart from, hostile to and opposed to God - Ro 7:5, 8:8, 9, Php 3:3, 4.
The Amplified Version qualifies the phrase in the flesh with the explanatory clause that this refers to mere physical lives but a careful examination of the context does not support the Amplified Version's interpretation.
The Weymouth paraphrase is interesting…
Phillips renders it…
MacDonald explains that…
Donald Barnhouse rightly states that…
Wuest writes that in the flesh…
John MacArthur notes that…
William Newell explains that Paul…
In summary, In the flesh in Romans 7:5 refers to a lost man, one who is unredeemed and thus unregenerate and able to operate only in the sphere of fallen mankind. To be sure, the believer can still manifest deeds of the flesh, but he or she can never again be in the flesh in the same way as before being crucified with Christ (Ro 6:6-note).
MacDonald agrees explaining that…
As alluded to above in the discussion of sarx, in order to keep one from becoming confused, be aware that in the letter to the Romans Paul uses the word flesh to convey different meanings:
THE SINFUL PASSIONS… AROUSED BY THE LAW: ta pathemata ton hamartion ta dia tou nomou: (Ro 3:20; 4:15; 5:20; 1Cor 15:56; 2Cor 3:6, 7, 8, 9; Gal 3:10; Jas 2:9,10; 1Jn 3:4)
Simply stated, the law can never conquer our sinful passions. It can only arouse our sinful passions.
Sinful passions - This is a genitive expression in Greek and can be rendered "sinful passions" or "passions which lead to sin." Robertson says "passions of sins" or marked by sins.
Passion (3804) (pathema from pascho = suffer where the suffix "–ma" indicates that which is suffered) in this context means passions, impulses, affections or strong inward emotions. Although not the primary meaning of pathema in this verse, the other meaning deserves mention and contemplation for it refers to the very pain that we are experiencing right now because of sin, those very things that we can "see, touch and feel" - those things that are causing us anguish and emotional trauma… all because they are dictated by our fallen sinful nature and fall so far short of God's mark.
Sinful passions then describe those overwhelming impulses to think and do evil, which characterize those who are "in the flesh" (Ep 2:3), but which obviously can also affect true believers. Prior to our conversion we were ruled by sinful passions which were aroused by the law. Paul uses pathema in Galatians explaining that…
Aroused is not in the original Greek but does accurately reflects the intent of this passage. Consider the effects of the Laws of Prohibition in the 1920's. The law that banned alcohol stimulated the old flesh nature and the sinful passions were aroused so that men's appetite for alcohol increased and the results were deadly fruit euphemistically referred to as the "Roaring 20's". It was a tragic chapter in American History. The Mosaic Law affected the nation of Israel much like the Law of Prohibition affected America. The Law stipulates what is right and what is wrong, and in so doing it arouses evil in an unregenerate person because the naturally rebellious nature makes him want to do the very things that are forbidden.
As MacDonald succinctly explains…
Poole notes that sinful passions refer to…
Calvin writes that…
The unbeliever's rebellious nature is awakened when restrictions are placed on him and make him want to do the very things the law forbids. As strange as it might seem, the law itself, by its very prohibitions, generates sinful impulses which lead to breaking the law! So in fact this is one of the functions of the Law -- to stimulate our sinful flesh! "Forbidden fruit is sweet". The natural (in the flesh) tendency in man is to desire the forbidden thing.
Augustine vividly pictured the interaction of the Law and our sinful passions writing that…
Barnhouse has an interesting comment on the Law noting that…
Wayne Barber comments on Romans 7:5 noting that it teaches…
Illustration - Take a dish of Baking Soda (and explain it represents our Sin nature). It appears quiet until another substance is added. Add Vinegar (and explain that it represents the Law). What's the result? The Baking Soda is no longer quiet but begins to smoke and froth. The fault is not in the vinegar, but in the nature of the Baking Soda which will not remain inactive when "provoked" by Vinegar. The Law is not at fault, but the fault lies in our evil, wicked Sin nature!
LAW STIRS UP SIN – ILLUSTRATION FROM PILGRIM'S PROGRESS - In his Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan describes Interpreter's house, which Pilgrim entered during the course of his journey to the Celestial City. The parlor of the house was completely covered with dust, and when a man took a broom and started to sweep, he and the others in the room began to choke from the great clouds of dust that were stirred up. The more vigorously he swept, the more suffocating the dust became. Then Interpreter ordered a maid to sprinkle the room with water, with which the dust was quickly washed away. Interpreter explained to Pilgrim that the parlor represented the heart of an unsaved man, that the dust was original sin, the man with the broom was the law, and the maid with the water was the gospel. His point was that all the law can do with sin is to stir it up. Only the gospel of Jesus Christ can wash it away.
FORBIDDEN FRUIT - In Galveston, Texas, a hotel on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico put this notice in each room:
No Fishing From The Balcony
Yet every day, hotel guests threw in their lines to the waters below. Then the management decided to take down the signs -- and the fishing stopped!
In his Confessions, Augustine (354-430), the well-known theologian, reflected on this attraction to the forbidden. He wrote, "There was a pear tree near our vineyard, laden with fruit. One stormy night we rascally youths set out to rob it … We took off a huge load of pears -- not to feast upon ourselves, but to throw them to the pigs, though we ate just enough to have the pleasure of the forbidden fruit. They were nice pears, but it was not the pears that my wretched soul coveted, for I had plenty better at home. I picked them simply to become a thief … The desire to steal was awakened simply by the prohibition of stealing."
Romans 7 sets forth the truth illustrated by Augustine's experience: Human nature is inherently rebellious. Give us a law and we will see it as a challenge to break it. Jesus, however, forgives our lawbreaking and gives us the Holy Spirit. He imparts a new desire and ability so that our greatest pleasure becomes bringing pleasure to God. -H W Robinson (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
Why do we keep on trying
Forbidden fruit tastes sweet but has bitter consequences.
WERE AT WORK IN THE MEMBERS OF OUR BODY: energeito (3SIMI) en tois melesin hemon: (Romans 7:8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; Mt 15:19; Gal 5:19, 20, 21; Jas 1:15)
Were at work (1754) (energeo [word study] from en = in + érgon = work. English = energetic) means they worked effectively to cause something to happen. They worked energetically to produce results. The imperfect tense pictures the continual activity - over and over these sinful passions effectively and efficiently exerted their influence on our various body parts.
As Wuest phrases it "The emotions or impulses of sin, stirred to activity by the law, were operative in the members of our bodies with the result of the production of fruit, this fruit being with respect to death, identified with death, thus, characterized by death. (Wuest, K. S. Wuest's Word Studies from the Greek New Testament: Eerdmans)
Members (3196) (melos [word study]) refers to the parts of the physical body, which is the "base camp" from which Sin operates in the unbeliever, but can also operate in a believer.
Melos - 34x in 24v in NAS - Matt. 5:29f; Rom. 6:13, 19; 7:5, 23; 12:4f; 1 Co. 6:15; 12:12, 14, 18ff, 22, 25ff; Eph. 4:25; 5:30; Col. 3:5; Jas. 3:5f; 4:1.
As Beet says members refers to…
Jesus used melos in His graphic warning declaring that…
Earlier Paul had used melos in his charge to believers to…
After explaining to the saints at Colossae their lofty position (and privilege) in Christ Paul commanded them (their responsibility) even with a sense of urgency to
TO BEAR FRUIT FOR DEATH: eis to karpophoresai (AAN) to thanato:
Bear fruit (2592) (karpophoreo [word study] from karpos = fruit + phero = to bring) The verb is in the Infinitive mood which is used to express purpose.
Robertson rightly observes that here we see a…
The sinful passions at work in unbelievers produce a corrupt and perishable harvest of eternal death (Ro 5:12-note; Ro 6:16-note, Ro 6:21-note cf Galatians 6:7-8). The contrast between the two types of fruit is striking in Romans 6 where Paul asks the rhetorical question:
MacDonald says that…
Harry Ironside offers an interesting word picture to explain bearing fruit for death writing that…
C H Spurgeon explains the fruit bearing nature of sinful passions aroused by the law writing that…
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Our Daily Bread devotional tells an interesting story of our "sinful passions"…
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Vance Havner addresses the issue of fruit in the Christian life in a piece entitled "The Four Fs of the Christian Experience"…
Romans 7:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. (NASB: Lockman)
Greek: nuni de katergethemen (1PAPI) apo tou nomou, apothanontes (AAPMPN) en o kateichometha, (1PIPI) hoste douleuein (PAN) hemas en kainoteti pneumatos kai ou palaioteti grammatos.
Amplified: But now we are discharged from the Law and have terminated all intercourse with it, having died to what once restrained and held us captive. So now we serve not under [obedience to] the old code of written regulations, but [under obedience to the promptings] of the Spirit in newness [of life]. (Amplified Bible - Lockman)
Barclay: But now we are completely discharged from the law, because we have died to that by which we were held captive, so that we serve, not under the old written law, but in the new life of the spirit. (Westminster Press)
NET: But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.
NLT: But now we have been released from the law, for we died with Christ, and we are no longer captive to its power. Now we can really serve God, not in the old way by obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way, by the Spirit. (NLT - Tyndale House)
Phillips: But now that we stand clear of the Law, the claims which existed are dissolved by our "death", and we are free to serve God not in the old obedience to the letter of the Law, but in a new way, in the spirit. (Phillips: Touchstone)
Wuest: But now we were discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were constantly being held down, insomuch that we are rendering habitually a slave's obedience in a sphere new in quality, that of the Spirit, and not in a sphere outworn as to usefulness, in a sphere of that which was put in writing. (Eerdmans)
Young's Literal: and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.
BUT NOW WE HAVE BEEN RELEASED FROM THE LAW: nuni de katergethemen (1PAPI) apo tou nomou: (Ro 7:4; 6:14,15; Gal 3:13,23, 24, 25; 4:4,5)
But now is one of those great contrasts in Scripture and is used frequently by Paul - Here are the 24 uses of But now in Paul's writings -Ro. 3:21; 6:22; 7:6; 11:30; 15:23, 25; 16:26; 1 Co. 7:14; 12:18, 20; 13:13; 14:6; 15:20; 2 Co. 8:11, 22; Gal. 3:25; 4:9; Eph. 2:13; 5:8; Phil. 2:12; Col. 3:8; 1 Thess. 3:6; 2 Tim. 1:10; Philemon 1:11;-- this would make an interesting Sunday School lesson simply observing what Paul was contrasting and why he was doing it. These contrasting truths could lead to fruitful discussion and application.)
Barnes has an interesting analysis of this section writing…
Barnhouse comments on the word now noting that…
We have been released - (Discharged from, separated from) We were set free by virtue of our death with Christ on the Cross (Ro 6:3-note, Ro 6:6-note, Gal 2:20-note). We have been discharged from the Law like the woman was discharged from the legality that bound her to her husband. The result? Believers are no longer under the Law nor subject to the Law.
Released (2673) (katargeo [word study] from kata = intensifies meaning + argeo = be idle) means to make the power or force of something ineffective, to render it powerless, to reduce it to inactivity or to put it out of use. The basic idea of katargeo is to cause something (in this case the Law) to be idle, useless, inoperative or ineffective.
Compare Paul's use of similar terms in "is released" (Ro 7:2 -katargeo) and "shall be free" (Ro 7:3)
Katargeo always denotes a nonphysical destruction by means of a superior force coming in to replace the force previously in effect.
Note that the aorist tense points to a specific time in the past (this is a "historical event") when we were set free from the Law. When in the past? Paul does not say, but almost certainly when the Spirit blew His life into our deadness from sin the moment we confessed Jesus as Lord and believed in our heart that God raised Him from the dead (Ro 10:9, 10-notes). Note also that katargeo is in the passive voice which is what some theologians refer to as the "divine passive" in contexts such as this verse, where the "divine passive" indicates that the power which set us free from the Law was God's power. All glory and honor and praise be unto Him. Amen.
Someone has written that katargeo is pictured by our well known English phrases like "to pull the teeth out of," or "to declaw." Before Christ gave us a new heart, "the Sin" within us ruled us, wielding a power over us which we could not resist; and which led us commit sins. The law functioned to arouse the sinful desire, but no longer has that effect (unless we choose to put ourselves back up under a list of do's and don'ts). But now that our old self has been nailed to the cross of Christ (Ro 6:6-note), the power of sin and the effect of the law over our physical bodies have been rendered inoperative (ESV "brought to nothing" - Ro 6:6).
Understand the distinction - Inoperative "yes" but annihilated "no". Wrong choices can still ''recharge'' or "revive" that old master ("the Sin") that persists latent within every believer. We do well to heed God's warning to Cain for Sin is ever, like a lion, crouching at the door of our mind and heart, seeking to seduce and ensnare us to miss God's mark for our lives (see Ge 4:6, 7).
Why did we die to the law? Why are we released from the law? Why are we not under the law? So that we may sin all the more? No! So that we may "serve" (not sin) – death to the law makes us servants, not sinners. Contrary to popular opinion in the spirit of Jdg 21:25, freedom is not the right to do as we please but is the power to do as we should (cp Ezek 36:26, 27, noting God's work in verse 27 and man's responsibility. The Christian life is not as has unfortunately been portrayed by some "Let go and let God" but is "work out what God has worked in"! (cp Php 2:12-note, Php 2:13-note)
Barnhouse illustrates the believer's release from the Law writing that "When a man is discharged from the law, he has been cleared and will never face trial in that matter again. No phantom of re-arrest hangs over the one whose case has been settled. The founders of British justice insisted that no citizen could be held in double jeopardy for any cause initiated against him. Even if he has been tried for murder, he can never be tried again on the same count if he has been declared not guilty. Even if evidence of guilt is brought to light afterward, since he has been discharged from the law, his case can never be revived. Similarly, even if you think yourself to have been under some system of law to God, you have been discharged from that law by the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Barnhouse, D. G. God's Freedom: Romans 6:1-7:25. Page 215. Grand Rapids, MI.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 1961)
HAVING DIED TO THAT BY WHICH WE WERE BOUND: apothanontes (AAPMPN) en o kateichometha (1PIPI): (Ro 7:1,4; 6:2)
Ironside observes that "In the illustration the first husband dies and the woman is free to be married to another. In the application Paul did not say the law has died, but the point he made is that death (and for us it is Christ's death) has ended the relationship we had with the law. So there is after all no real disagreement; in either case the former condition is ended by death. The law, as we have seen, was addressed to man in the flesh, and this was our former state, but now all is changed. We are no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit, and so in a new state to which the law in no sense applies (as Romans 8 will show us)." (Commentary on Romans)
Having died (599) (apothnesko from apó = an intensifier + thnesko = to die) means literally, to die off, but stronger than thnesko. Although the NT uses it to refer to natural death, Paul uses it here to refer to believers who are justified by faith in Christ and thus who actually died to the power the Law once exerted over them. Notice that it is not the Law that has died but the believer, who has been made dead to the claims of the Law through the body of Christ (Ro 7:4-note) .
The aorist tense again pictures a past tense event and emphasizes finality, a once for all, historical event that in context equates with the moment each of us placed our faith in Christ as discussed above. The passive voice again speaks of God's power causing us to die to the Law which held us as prisoners.
We can translate it "we died once for all". Note that Paul does not call upon Christians to die to sin (We died-not for sin, but to sin and to the law) but explains that by sharing in Christ's death, they have in fact already died to sin and the law. The handcuffs and shackles of the Law have been broken, setting us free to serve our new Master! This truth is a fact, not an experience. Feelings have nothing to do with it. From God's point of view, He sees every believer as dead, buried and raised (truth of Ro 6:1-10 -notes Ro 6:1; 6:2; 6:3; 6:4; 6:5; 6:6; 6:7; 6:8; 6:9; 10) with the Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore united with Him (Ro 6:5-note) so tightly that we could never be separated.
We were bound - Mark it down. Do not forget from what we who are now in Christ have been delivered - we were captives, prisoners, slaves. Beloved believer, do you wish to go back into these uncomfortable chains and dank, dark dungeon? Of course not. Then ponder these passages that the Spirit might give you understanding regarding the new "wings" God has given every believer to enable them to "fly" supernaturally. As an aside, trying to fly without His gracious provision of "wings" only leads to futility and frustration in the Christian life!
Were bound (2722) (katecho [word study] from katá = intensifies meaning + écho = have, hold) means we were held fast, held down, confined or retained. It meant to prevent someone from doing something by restraining, hindering or holding down (as Paul explained in Ro 1:18-note of unregenerate men actively, continually "holding down" or "suppressing" the truth of the Gospel). Paul explains that the Law had a firm hold on unbelievers and held them as their master. Katecho was a legal term conveying the picture of "taking possession of property" which helps give us a picture of the firm grip that the Law held on us when we were outside of Christ. Dear believer, why would we ever want to go back up under the Law? And remember that some forms of legalism can be very subtle!
To reiterate, as unbelievers we were hindered by the Law. It's as if the Law seized us and retained us under it's power as our ''master''. When we died with Christ (Click notes on "crucified with" Christ in Ro 6:6-note), we died to the binding power of the law. Paul has just warned us (click here) that the law arouses sin, so if you place yourself back up under the Law, the sinful passions will be aroused. Be careful of saying things like ''I won't do___________.'' You have just placed yourself back under the Law and the flesh with its sinful passions will be aroused. (Click discussion of some of the subtle "do's and don'ts" that confronted the saints at Colossae in Col 2:20, 21, 22, 23-note)
Paul's readers were very familiar with slavery and would (or at least should) readily understand that when a human slave died, obviously he was freed from his master's service. By analogy when one has died to sin and the Law (Click discussion of "dead to sin") he is no longer the slave of sin and is freed from the service to sin and the Law.
SO THAT WE SERVE IN NEWNESS OF THE SPIRIT: hoste douleuein (PAN) hemas en kainoteti pneumatos: (Ro 1:9; 2:27, 28, 29; 6:4,11,19,22; 12:2; Ezek 11:19, 20; 36:26; 2Cor 3:6; 5:17; Gal 2:19,20; 6:15; Phil 3:3; Col 3:10)
So that (hoste) indicates a contemplated result. See value of pausing to ponder terms of purpose or result.
We serve - Not "you" serve. Paul identifies with them and in fact this was Paul's testimony on the outset of this epistle…
This verse also represents a fulfillment of Ezekiel's prophecy of the New Covenant where God promised a spiritual "heart transplant" for Israel (first fulfilled by Jesus with His Jewish disciples in His last Passover = inauguration of the New Covenant = Lk 22:15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, Mt 26:27, 28, 29, Mk 14:24, 25 and by way of application to all Gentiles who would repent and belief in the Messiah - cp the church at Corinth composed of Gentiles and Jews - 1Co 11:25, 26 proclaim the Lord's death = past finished work on the Cross [First Coming], skips > 2000 years until He comes [Second Coming] = future blessed hope, Titus 2:13-note)…
As Vine notes Paul changes the metaphor from marriage to that of service, as he contrasts two ways of rendering service to God.
Serve (1398) (douleuo [word study] from doulos) means to be in the position of a servant. The present tense pictures this servitude to God as the believer's continual state. Serving now with this brand new spirit (a new heart, a circumcised heart, a regenerate heart, cp 2Co 5:17) is to be the believer's lifestyle. (cp Jesus Who came not "to be served but to serve", Mk 10:45, Php 2:5-note, Php 2:3, 4-note)
Wuest translates it
Douleuo - 25x in 23v in the NAS - Mt. 6:24; Lk. 15:29; 16:13; Jn. 8:33; Acts 7:7; 20:19; Rom. 6:6; 7:6, 25; 9:12; 12:11; 14:18; 16:18; Gal. 4:8f, 25; 5:13; Eph. 6:7; Phil. 2:22; Col. 3:24; 1 Thess. 1:9; 1 Tim. 6:2; Tit. 3:3
The NAS renders douleuo as enslaved(3), in bondage(1), render service(1), serve(10), served(1), serves(1),serving(4), slavery(1), slaves(3).
In newness - In an atmosphere or environment that has never existed. "Breathe in" this newness. Walk in this newness. Serve in this newness. Remember you now exist in the sphere of newness of the Holy Spirit and don't foolishly fall into the trap of volitionally (you make the choice) placing yourself back up under the law in any form (especially those things that ostensibly "look good" and if carried out with the proper motive and "Spirit" are good).
Newness (2538) (kainotes from kainos = new, qualitatively, a kind that never existed before) is a noun identifying something extraordinary. It is a renewal which is qualitatively different. In this context kainotes refers to the new state of life in which the Holy Spirit has placed us.
The only other NT use of kainotes is in Romans 6 Paul explaining what it means to have died with Christ…
Vine explains that kainotes "is used in the phrases (a) "newness of life, Ro 6:4-note, i.e., life of a new quality; the believer, being a new creation (2Cor 5:17), is to behave himself consistently with this in contrast to his former manner of life; (b) "newness of the spirit," Ro 7:6, said of the believer's manner of serving the Lord. While the phrase stands for the new life of the quickened spirit of the believer, it is impossible to dissociate this (in an objective sense) from the operation of the Holy Spirit, by whose power the service is rendered.
Obeying God is now not a dreaded, impossible duty but a natural result of the Spirit in us. Before our co-crucifixion with Christ, we served one master, Sin. Paul has already explained our liberation from this harsh task master in Romans 6…
Of the Spirit - Note that the word Spirit may be spirit (lowercase "s") to contrast with the written document, the Law. The thought then is that believers do not live by the "oldness" of the Law but by the "newness" of a regenerated spirit. On the other hand Spirit may refer to the Holy Spirit, the Source of new life. In the final analysis beloved, are not both the little "s" and big "S" interpretations true?
Vine agrees writing that "While "newness of spirit" may stand for the new state or the new life of the believer, as in Ro 8:4 (see note), yet it is impossible to dissociate this from the Holy Spirit, by whose power the believer renders his service. {AMEN!} (Vine, W. Collected writings of W. E. Vine. Nashville: Thomas Nelson)
Barnes adds newness of the Spirit could mean…
The written code, which has special reference to the law rather than to Scripture in general, has no power to give life and to produce a service acceptable to God. Only a person can beget human life, and only a divine Person can impart spiritual life (Col 3:4YLT-note, 1Jn 5:11, 12, Jn 20:31 - so what's the "key"? Believing, faith, 2Co 5:7, 4:18), which is then fostered and nurtured by the Spirit of Christ (Ro 8:9-note).
Do this and live, the law demands,
So what are the "wings" in this poem? The supernatural power of the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah!
AND NOT IN OLDNESS OF THE LETTER: kai ou palaioteti grammatos:
Paul contrasted the letter and the Spirit earlier in Romans in a section that was addressed especially to Jewish readers…
Not (3756) (ou) confers absolute negation. Believers service is absolutely no longer like it was under the law. God said the law was old because He had replaced it by the covenant of grace.
As A T Robertson says…
Oldness (3821) (palaiotes from palaios [word study] = old in the sense of worn out, decrepit, useless) describes obsoleteness, antiquatedness or oldness. Palaiotes describes one's characteristic state of being obsolete (or superseded). Romans 7:6 (the only use in Scripture) describes God's "planned" obsolescence regarding the law.
The Spirit comes in the place of the letter. The letter is something belonging to the past and no longer has force since it belongs to an age and economy now past and gone.
Thayer writes that palaiotes describes "the old state of life controlled by `the letter' of the law".
Letter (1121) (gramma from grapho = engrave, write) describes a writing, a letter (including a letter of the alphabet), a note, legal code, etc. It referred to a document or letter one writes. The letter in this context is synonymous with the law. Now the external rules of conduct which represent only outward conformity to some standard, has given place in the believer to our response to the operation of the Holy Spirit, in Whom we are now to continually "walk" (Gal 5:16-note). Enabled by the Spirit of Christ believers can now serve the Lord, even "keeping the law", not because of being in bondage to the law, but because of the freedom in the Spirit (Ro 6:18-note). Does that make sense? Remember that now in the new covenant, the Law is written on our hearts (He 8:10-note, Jer 31:33). Remember too that now the Spirit Who lives in us and gives us the desire and the power to obey the Law (Php 2:13-note, Ezek 36:27). Don't slip into the trap of trying to do this in your own strength or you have just place yourself back up under the Law!
MacArthur explains it this way…
Matthew Henry writes that not in oldness of the letter means that…
What is the potential "danger"? Once you are saved and yet trying to continue to serve in oldness of the letter, by obeying the letter of the law. Anytime a believer tries to live under the "letter" of the Law, know for certain that the Law will "kill". You won't lose your salvation but you will not experience growth in holiness (sanctification). The "letter" or holy law of God is not an external code of "do's" and "don'ts." Rather it is a law of love written on our hearts. We do not obey that law because we fear the Lord, but because we love Him.
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No Power - I remember seeing a newspaper photograph of three signs nailed to a big oak tree. Their message was obvious. On the top sign were printed the words, "No Trespassing," on the middle one, "No Hunting," and on the bottom, "No Nothing."
The apostle Paul was very familiar with the urge behind such a response. In Romans 7 he pointed out that the law actually awakens rebellious desires within us (Ro 7:5). Being told not to do something excites our sinful nature to express itself.
Our rebellious response to negative rules points out our need for a strong, compelling motivation to do what's right. Paul said that we can go beyond a list of do's and don'ts to a love relationship with Christ Himself (Ro 7:6). The law carries with it the sentence of death because of our inability to keep it (Ro 7:10-note). But being united to Christ results in life.
By daily walking and talking with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we can go from "no" power in the law to all power in Him. —Mart De Haan (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)


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Every time I meet someone from Hillsdale College while out here in D.C., they always ask if I know [insert their friend's name here].
Most of the time, I fall back on "I know the name, but not the person," but the point has been made. Even here, hundreds of miles away, the Hillsdale community is strong. And when I say it is strong, I mean it's almost obnoxious how many other Hillsdale students and alums are working or interning in the nation's capitol.
I know it's because I run heavily in the conservative culture here, but it seems like my alma mater is everywhere I turn. I meet someone from my school almost every week—a speaker at a lecture, someone on the street, a fellow church member. And although Hillsdale's ever-growing presence is a sort of running joke in town, I am thankful for it.
Community takes on a new meaning when you're in a city for the first time, and I am lucky enough to have one built in. I haven't had to flounder for friends, because there is a whole dorm full of them quite literally a block from where I work.
There is something to be said for going it alone, to be thrust completely out of your element, but I think it is only possible to thrive on your own once your roots have been firmly planted. I am only beginning to understand my roots. I am only starting to learn what it means to be grounded in people and places and moments.
Nearly three months in D.C. has only shown my heart has not been uprooted, only transplanted.
This isn't a post about school spirit. This is not about cheering at football games. This is not about bumper stickers or class shirts or banners.
This is about how I have buried my heart under the well-worn steps of Central Hall. This is about planting my hopes among the flowers of Arb, rooting myself in the blue and the white, finding my purpose among bustling Midwest halls.
This is about unspoken allies in the city.
No matter what internship or job brings someone here, we both understand what is like to struggle through American Heritage, to see the glow of Central Hall at sunset, to have your heart jump in fear (or excitement) when Dr. Arnn rounds the corner. It's a shared experience that is irreplaceable, unexplainable.
Knowing there are others—many others—in this town who share these roots is a comfort. Seeing where they are now is an encouragement. Meeting them is a joy, if only because the unspoken becomes the spoken.
The friendships I form at school might fade. Details of classroom lessons will be replaced. But the sense of community will never disappear, no matter where I go. Once a Charger, always a Charger.
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Guide to Senate Records: Chapter 2
Chapter 2. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and Related Committees, 1825-1968
Records of Committees Relating to Agriculture and Forestry 1825-1988 from Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States
Committee records discussed in this chapter:
- Records of the Agriculture Committee, 1825-1883
- Records of the Agriculture and Forestry Committee, 1883-1968
- Records of the Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game, 1896-1921
Records of the Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game, 1896-1921
2.29 Although the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry had, as its name states, jurisdiction over forestry matters, other committees were created expressly to consider many of the same issues. The Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game was established by Senate Resolution on March 19, 1896, and was terminated by S. Res. 43, 67th Cong. (1921), which eliminated many inactive and overlapping standing and select Senate committees. The Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game was preceded by the Select Committee on Forest Reservations in California, established July 28, 1892, and that select committee's successor, the Select Committee on Forest Reservations, established March 15, 1893. The National Archives has less than 1 inch of petitions referred to the Select Committee on Forest Reservations and no records of its predecessor select committee.
2.30 Records of Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game consist of committee papers, 1902-12 (1 in.), and petitions, memorials, and resolutions of state legislatures referred to the committee, 1896-1921 (1 ft.). Committee papers have been preserved for only the 57th, 58th, and 62d Congresses and include executive communications from the Agriculture and Interior Departments that were printed as House or Senate documents. Petitions and memorials referred to the committee include the following subjects: Forest reserves generally (54A0J13, 60A-J52, 61A-J36) and Southern Appalachia (56A-J13, 60A-J52, 61A-J36); preservation of the Calaveras grove of big trees (58A-J30); protection of birds, game, and fish generally and the creation of game reserves (58A-J30, 59A-J41); protection of specific animals or categories of animals, such as buffalo (56A-J13), elk (60A-J53, 61A-J35), Alaskan game (58A-J29), and migratory birds (61A-J36, 62A-J43, 64A-J33); protection of the Niagara Falls from destruction by power companies (59A-J43); turning over title to forest reserves to the States (62A-J43); and destruction of predators on Government reserves (64A-J34).
Bibliographic note: Web version based on Guide to the Records of the United States Senate at the National Archives, 1789-1989: Bicentennial Edition (Doct. No. 100-42). By Robert W. Coren, Mary Rephlo, David Kepley, and Charles South. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1989.


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DCR017: The first Greek motorcycle launched in the international market! (PHOTOS)
Τhe first custom-made and on-demand Greek motorcycle was presented to the international audience at the EICMA exhibition in Milan.
"We are not afraid because we are competitive at the highest level, our technology is exceptional, and everyone acknowledges it," said the creator of the DCR017 motorcycle Dinos Michalidis to Athens Macedonian News Agency radio 'Praktoreio' 104.9 FM.
The creation of the special model started a year ago, when Michailidis' company participated in the world's largest motorcycle exhibition EICMA that is held every November in Milan. "In 2016, when we witnessed this wave of type Custom, Trackers and Cafe Racers motorcycles, we said we should do something ourselves. Despite the fact we are a company that manufactures air filters, we set aside some time at our research center and tried to build our own motorcycle," Nikolaidis explained.
The motorcycle was completed just a few days before the opening of the exhibition on November 9.
DCR017 targets a special audience that seeks models in a flourishing part of the market: buyers who want custom-made motorcycles. "It is something we can only compare with a Ferrari or Lamborghini in the car sector; it is obviously a very expensive market, but we have a plan," Nikolaidis said. "If conditions permit, meaning if we have a sufficient number of orders, then we plan to set up a special unit to produce this motorcycle," he added.
Source: ANA
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