THE LAW HAS LOST POWER OVER YOU
By Bishop Mike Okonkwo
Saturday 26th October 2024
“For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.”
Romans 6:14 (KJV)
One truth you must know and settle in your heart as a child of God is that the moment you receive Jesus as Lord and Saviour, the law automatically loses power over your life. Now you have a different Master. The duty of the law is to reveal your sins and shortcomings. The law is good and holy, but it cannot help you live for God. The commandment doesn’t make you holy! It shows you your weaknesses and how you can never make it. The book of Romans 7:7 says: “………I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.” (KJV). But for the law, you wouldn’t have known sin. You would have just been living your life.
Now, because you could not keep the law, the law said you failed. So, the law, which was meant to bring life, brought spiritual death to you instead. This happens so that you can reach the end of yourself and look for a Saviour. The law brings you to that point so that you can appreciate Jesus more.
God’s laws are righteous, but we know we can’t keep them. Now, that which is righteous and holy is killing people and condemning them to hell. So, how do we come out of it? Jesus came and made us right with God, apart from the law. “But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested…. even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe ….” (Romans 3:21-22 KJV)
Sin is so powerful that it penetrates the presence of God. It will take only God to deliver you from sin. Until you understand that, you will never be free from sin or walk in liberty. Thank God for Jesus! He has delivered us from the law to walk in liberty. Therefore, the law has no control over you because of what Jesus did.
Further Reading: Romans 7:1-25
Daily Bible Reading: Morning- Jeremiah 9-11; Evening- 1 Timothy 6