"The law convicts us of sin, and condemns us to death.
*we willingly and gladly suffer death with Christ,
*who gave Himself willingly, and who was “reckoned, among the transgressors.” (Luke 22:37).
---It is in Christ that we receive the penalty of the law--death.
---So when we rise with Him, we are “dead to the law,” (Romans 7:4) so long as we “reckon” ourselves dead.
---So long as the “old man,” (Rom. 6:6) which the law condemned to death, remains destroyed, and a “new man” (Col. 3:10) lives in his stead, the law has nothing against us any more than it has against Christ.
We are to remain dead to the law, but alive unto God."
E.J. Waggoner
