The New Life by Andrew

Andrew Murray on The New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples Text
2Pe 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of
whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
By the death of Christ and in Christ of the believer, who is one with Him, he is made entirely free
from the dominion of sin: it has no more power over him. If, then, he still does sin, it is because he,
not knowing his freedom by faith, permits sin still to rule over him. But it by faith he fully accepts
what the word of God thus confirms, then sin has no power over him: he overcomes it by the faith that
he is made free from it. (Rom. 5:21; 6:12,14)
Ro 5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness
unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ro 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts
thereof.
Ro 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Then there is freedom from the law. This leads us deeper into the life of grace than freedom from sin.
According to Scripture, law and sin always go together. 'The strength of sin is the law:' The law does
nothing but make the offense greater. (Rom. 4:15; 5:13,20; 7:13; 1 Cor. 15:56)
Ro 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Ro 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Ro 5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded,
grace did much more abound:
Ro 7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might
appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might
become exceeding sinful.
1Co 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
The law is the token of our sinfulness, cannot help us against sin, but with its demand for perfect
obedience gives us over hopeless to the power of sin. The Christian who does not discern that he is
made free from the law will still always abide under sin. (Rom. 6:15; 7:5)
Ro 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God
forbid.
Ro 7:5 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.
Christ and the law cannot rule over us together: in every endeavour to fulfil the law as believers, we
are taken captive by sin. (Rom. 7:5,23)
Ro 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in
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