Romans 7, Chuck Smith teaching (C2000, 1979 to 1985)

Read as you listen: Chuck Smith on Romans 7

Read the opening of his teaching

Romans chapter 7.

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) (7:1)

In other words, I am talking now to the Jews, and how that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives. "Don't you realize," Paul said, "you that know the law,"

that the law has dominion over you as long as you live? (7:1)

One example of the law that he brings to show the point,

For the woman which has a husband is bound by the law to the husband as long as he is living; but if the husband is dead, she is freed from the law of the husband. So then if, while her husband is living, she be married to another man, she be called an adulteress: but if her husband is dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man (7:2-3).