CT069 - Jesus Helps Us Bear Fruit for God

A Lord's Supper meditation on Romans 7:4 — the verse where Paul stops us with a startling claim. We expect him to say the law has died and we are free; instead he says we did, through the body of Christ, so that we might belong to another — to him who was raised from the dead.

Matthew Allen walks the verse phrase by phrase: the body of Christ as the means of release, the resurrection as the reason our belonging holds, and the careful clarification that our righteousness was paid for at the cross, not earned by Christ keeping the law on our behalf. The cup is a cup of resurrection-belonging. From union with the risen Christ flows the fruit Paul says we are now meant to bear — not to earn an approval we don't have, but as the natural overflow of an approval the cross has already secured.