If the Law is Good, How Can We Be ‘Dead’ to It?

How can Christians be “dead to the law” if the law is “holy, just and good” (Rom. 7:4, 12)? Scott Brown answers this thorny question, putting Romans 7 in proper context. The Apostle Paul uses the metaphor of a woman whose husband dies, who then is free to remarry, being no longer bound by the law of her first husband. Being married to Christ is akin to this. When He regenerates us, we are married to Him and dead to the condemnation of the law, our old husband, which once condemned us. Now our “Maker is [our] husband” (Isa. 54:5), who helps us to freely keep His good law rather than be crushed by it due to our sin.