Just like a stillborn baby from its mother’s womb, so is the Law which was supposed to bring life, but brought forth death. Like a mother’s lively womb, the Law was given so that we would obey and have life. But sin used even what is holy for its evil purposes, showing us how utterly sinful sin really is. It causes death in us. That which was supposed to bring forth life, kills. All that toiling by the woman, pushing and pushing in labor, to bring forth death; all our labor to receive the wages of death; yea, so are we who seek to get right with God by our own human effort.
However the Tomb, which is meant to inhabit death, brought forth life. Jesus Christ died, was buried in a tomb, and rose from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit; it was impossible for death to hold Him; His death brought forth life. Your repentance causes you to live. You loosing your life will cause you to keep it. All for His name’s sake.
As Jonah was in the womb of a great fish for three days, so was the Son of Man in the matrix of the earth. The gestation period, which was only three days, brought forth life to all who believe on His name: which is the birth of new life from a dead tomb. We are all dead in our tombs, but Christ brings forth the dead in their tombs to life. A thing only the Father can do.
From the innermost of God came tender mercies and love and grace abounding in steadfast love and compassion, poured out through Jesus Christ. No mind can fathom the height and breadth and width and length and depth of God’s love. The riches of God’s grace causes us to dump our earthly riches and pursue with both hands the riches of God.