After a short recap about where we’ve got to in our Romans series, Keith launched into our passage in Romans 7:1-13 and how it shows us that although we are dead to the law, it still has a role to play in our lives.
Paul says that as Christians, we are like a widow whose husband has died, no longer bound to the Jewish law, which many in Rome would have seen as rules that they had to obey to the letter, to be acceptable to God. However, the Law still has a function: to teach us how wrong sin is (vv. 7-13).
Keith likened the Old Testament to the Highway Code. In and of itself, the Highway Code it can’t magically turn us into good drivers, but it is a good guide as to how to get there. Through stories, examples and commandments, the Old Testament points to Jesus and can help us live out our walk with him.