Charles Spurgeon Commentary Romans 8:2

"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death." — Romans 8:2 (ASV)

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

And nothing else can do that. Everyone is, by nature, under bondage to what Paul describes as "the law of sin and death."

There is a law in our nature, which is so powerful that, even when we would do good, evil is present with us. We cannot get away from that law, except by introducing another, which is "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus."

Dr. Chalmers has a remarkable sermon on this. The Expulsive Power of a New Affection: and it is this new affection for Christ, which is the accompaniment of the new life in Christ, which expels the old forces that used to hold us under bondage to sin and death.

For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

"Has made me free" – that is, the real "I" of whom he wrote a little while before – the true man himself: "'The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.' I have broken its bonds, I am a free man. Contending against its usurpation, I have escaped from under its yoke, and I shall yet tread sin under my feet, and God shall bruise even Satan himself under my feet shortly."

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

I am not its bond-slave; I am its enemy. I am free from it, fighting against it, struggling like a free man against one who would bring him into captivity.

But even though I sometimes feel as if I were a captive, I know I am not; I am free.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Sin and death cannot govern me – cannot condemn me – cannot destroy me. Another law has come in. The Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has brought me into another kingdom in which I cannot be affected, so as to condemn me, by the law of sin and death.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

I have broken away from its bondage; the new law, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, the law of grace has set me free from the domination of the law of sin and death. Happy is the free man who is thus liberated by the grace of God.

For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

"It cannot any longer rule me; and it cannot now condemn me. I am free from it, for I am now under the new and higher law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus."