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I. WHAT IT MEANS — freedom from its dominion in respect of —

1. The accusing and condemning sentence (Romans 8:1).

2. Its power (Romans 7:8).

3. Its vigour.

4. The obligation of conscience to conform to its ceremonies.

II. THE INSTRUMENT — the law itself.

1. It accuses, terrifies, condemns, and thus urges us to fly Christ who is the cause of our death to the law.

2. The law goes before, and effects an entrance for law-killing grace.

III. THE END — living to God (Titus 2:12), which may be urged by the facts:

1. That through Christ we belong to God (1 Corinthians 6:20);

2. That the purpose of our justification and redemption is. practical godliness;

3. That heaven hereafter depends on godliness here.

4. That this is the supreme end of the ministry.

(W. Perkins.)

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KJV: For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

WEB: For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.