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Romans 7:13
The Apostle Paul brings us an additional question based from what he has previously stated in Romans 7:12 (NKJV) in that, “the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.” The question that Paul asks is, “Has then what is good become death to me?” (Romans 7:13a). He also answers this question with the same answer he has given to his previous questions: “Certainly not!” (Romans 7:13, Romans 6:1-2, 15, 7:7a).
Paul has already explained that without the law we would have no knowledge of sin, and without the knowledge of sin we cannot know what sin is. If we have no knowledge of what sin is, then we cannot seek what is right and just apart from the sin that is made knowledgeable through the law. Paul teaches us that it is sin that leads to death (Romans 6:23), and that everyone has sinned (Romans 3:23) and because of sin we all fall short of God’s glory.
This is a promise and example that the law shows us what sin is so that we may flee from it.
God seeks for us to be reunited with Him in a relationship which is reflective of His great love for us. But sin has entered into this world in which we live and has disrupted the desired relationship that God has planned for each of us to have with Him. As the law makes sin known so that we may flee from it, that same sin is more powerful than we are and a need to be set free from it is created – the law helps us to realize our need for God to intervene and save us from the sin that has overtaken our lives. God sent His one and only Son Jesus to do just that – save us from sin. John 3:16-18 (HCSB) states, “For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God.”
Dear LORD,
Please help us to see that the law is not what causes sin and death, but our disobedience to it. Please help us to see that there is freedom from the sin of this world through believing in Your One and Only Son Jesus that through Him is salvation for all who will believe in Him. Please help us to believe LORD. In Jesus name I pray, amen.