The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe plus the Law
On this past weekend I was able to buy a copy of the BBC version of The Chronicles of Narnia on DVD. There is one part in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe I love to watch. It is when the witch arrives in the camp to confront Aslan about a traitor in their midst. And what she says sums up the power of the Law:
“Have you forgotten the Deep Magic?” asked the Witch…You at least
know the Magic which the Emperor put into Narnia at the very beginning.
You know that every traitor belongs to me as my lawful prey and that
for every treachery I have a right to a kill.”…”And so,” continued
the Witch, “that human creature is mine. His life is forfeit to me.
His blood is my property.”
Oh praise Him who has delivered us from the power of the Law!
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. (Romans 8:1-4)
