What law is this, that is dead to the body of Christ? Because if you think this is the same law in verse 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
It's the law that condemns you as a lawbreaker, a rebel against God, who has violated His righteous standard. The Holy and Good Law, which God gave to man. That Law. Because under it you are a dead man, and that's something Jesus died for you to save you from, the death blow dealt you by the Law that you claim to hold to.
You are insisting on climbing into your electric chair and pulling the lever.
2 Corinthians 3:6-8 KJV
6) Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7) But
if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8) How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
Now let us take heed to this warning, we can’t ignore all the bible and just concentrate on a hand full of verses out of the writings of Paul. Because some of Paul’s writing is hard to be understood.
"Oh, Paul is hard to understand, don't base your doctrine on Paul."
You'll need to give a specific statement, not just this wistful brushing off of the Apostle to the Gentiles. If you think I'm twisting something, be specific.
The Spirit teaches us truth, do you imagine that doesn't include Paul's writings? I don't.
Do you think I'm ignoring something that, what, changes the meaning of Paul's writings? Be specific. Not these vague half-accusations. What is the worth of that?
Let's just read Peter's words in context, to keep it clear,
2 Peter 3:15-16 KJV
15) And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
16) As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
You who teach the Law, do you not understand what it says? If you keep it you will live. You do not keep the Law, I know for a fact that you do not. No one does, because no one can. The Jews could, IF they were to rebuild their temple and reestablish the Levitical priesthood. Otherwise, it's impossible.
You do not keep the Law even today, and so if it's the Law you want, the Law condemns you for the failure to keep it. And it doesn't even matter whether you begin to, you've already broken it, you are already a Lawbreaker. Again, Jesus saves us.
And so God's solution,
Romans 7:1-4 KJV
1) Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2) For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
3) So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4) Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
That thing we want, power over the flesh, is not found in trying to keep the Law, just keep reading,
Romans 7:4-6 KJV
4) Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
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.
6) But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
How clear can this be?
Much love!