The Law of the Spirit of Life

Rom. 8:2 because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. (CSB)

A Note about Spiritual Laws

The law of sin and death has been working for around 6 thousand years

The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has been active for around 2 thousand years


Once a spiritual law is activated - unless there is a higher law that can supersede it - it stays active and working

Spiritual laws work the same for every person - everywhere - and every time

Both of the those laws are currently active.

One is producing life.

One is producing death

Both laws work the same for every person - everywhere - and every time

The Father sent Jesus to free individuals from the Law of Sin and Death

He did that by activating the Law of the Spirit of Life

Understanding that these 2 spiritual laws are active and working for everyone, everywhere, and every time is a key truth for Christians

These 2 spiritual laws:

Form belief systems

They form narratives and concepts around the world

Many things in the world are rooted in one of these laws

Creativity can be rooted in one or the other of these laws

Once you are alive IN CHRIST and experience the law of the Spirit of life

You can identify sin & death and the out-workings of it

We’ll say more about that later on…

What is and Who Activated the Law of Sin and Death?

Gen. 3:2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden.

Gen. 3:3 But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’” (ESV)

The law of sin and death was activated when Adam disobeyed God

Spiritual death came upon the human race

Spiritual death is the root cause of natural / physical death

Does the O.T. Law have anything to do with the Law of Sin and Death?

To say the L. of S. & D. is the Old Testament Law and nothing else

That would not be entirely true or accurate - WHY?

Because the law didn’t exist back in the garden where Adam and Eve fell

1 Cor. 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. (ESV)

NOTE: the law put boundaries/limits/restraint on people

We could say - the law became the magnifier of sin - The bible calls it the strength of sin

ILLUSTRATE: Picture a group of people that had the works of the flesh

OTHER THAN THE HUMAN CONSCIENCE - There was not any law prohibiting any of them from doing what was working in their flesh

If no one makes a law and says it is wrong - then people will freely do it

They were doing things their flesh wanted to do

Then the law came..

Rom. 5:20a…God’s law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were…(NLT)

Rom. 7:13 Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil. (BBE)

This verse helps us see two things:

The law of sin and death was in the world - since the time Adam sinned

People were not alive unto God - because when Adam sinned spiritual death came upon all people (Rom 5:14)

They did not know what was right and wrong

Romans 7:13 explains the combination of unregenerate man and the restraint of God’s law - working together - MAGNIFIES SIN

the law being good - working bad

What are the Effects of the Law of Sin and Death?

we’ll look at 3 main areas that this law affected

ONE: The Earth and All of Creation

Rom. 8:19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.

Rom. 8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

This is refrain to Gen. 3:17 “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from, ‘Don’t eat from this tree,’ The very ground is cursed because of you;. (Message)

Rom. 8:21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

Rom. 8:22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. (ESV)

The law of sin and death effected ALL of creation

From the moment Adam sinned the law of sin and death began working

TWO: Satan Gained a Position of Authority on Earth

Which means Adam lost his position of authority

Luke 4:5 So he took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Luke 4:6 The devil said to