These are the things that dominate my conscious state. He stated that grace was never supposed to be a tool to let people wallow in sin. The gospel has power: the power to save us, the power to change the world. The truth in Romans will transform your thinking and convict your heart as you discover the power of the gospel for every area of your life and our world. We are free from sin’s domination because of our union with Him. You have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you,Romans 6:17; Romans 6:17. I think some people think that. We understand the problem; now let's see God's provision, which is the answer to the problem. That's basically what happened to us as a result of our identification with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection. Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Not yield your estates to him, but yield yourselves; nothing less than your whole selves;" parastesate eautous--accommodate vos ipsos Deo--accommodate yourselves to God; so Tremellius, from the Syriac. Sin is here represented either as the work for which the wages are given, or as the master by whom the wages are given; all that are sin's servants and do sin's work must expect to be thus paid. In old Scotland, after a prisoner had been hanged, a notice was posted on the prison door. Romans 3:8; Romans 3:8. 2 God forbid. "...done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.". It is Christ’s glorious life which we can enjoy here and now. Pratt was accepted and joined the ranks bearing the name and number of George Wyatt. I love that song, "Take my life and let it be, consecrate it, Lord, to thee. He now warns against using that truth as an excuse for carelessness about sin. That sounds logical, doesn't it? This word carried with it the ideas of fellowship and cordial relations (see 1 Corinthians 16:8 and Philippians 1:24 for how this word was sometimes used). 2 God forbid. c. He was tempted to sin (Matthew 4:1-11). (1.) (2.) The Scripture cannot be broken ().This means that there will not be contradictions in God's Word. Paul wants to show that Christ has already won the victory over the flesh, and through the power of Christ’s indwelling Spirit believers can claim this victory as theirs daily (Romans 6:6-7; Romans 8:1-3). The power of our sin nature was broken. Your mouth, your words, they can speak the power and the blessing of God. "God be thanked that you were so, that is, that though you were so, yet you have obeyed. We must live no longer in sin (Romans 6:2; Romans 6:2), we must not be as we have been nor do as we have done. (1.) In other passages in the Bible we know that Christ died FOR our sins but in this passage in Romans we know that Christ also died UNTO sin. This is a very comfortable word to all true believers. II. Therefore he was justified. Luther, not the word of God, said that. So know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? That's the idea in the next clause: "that the body of sin might be done away with." (1.) My hands can be tools for God or they can be tools for my flesh. What shall we say then? It's like when I got married. What shall we say to such a sentiment as that where sin abounded grace did much more abound? We indeed know that nothing is more natural than that the flesh should indulge itself under any excuse, and also that Satan should invent all kinds of slander, in order to discredit the doctrine of grace; which to him is by no means difficult. I like that attitude. But I am to surrender them to God that He might take and use my body for His glory. The word sin means to miss the mark, and it doesn't mean that I hit the mark every time. My body wants control again. (4.) . So what does this mean? The baptized are changed, then, not by acquiescing to a powerful agent of God who has come to set up a new regime that we must obey. Being made free from sin, you became servants of righteousness (Romans 6:18; Romans 6:18), servants to God,Romans 6:22; Romans 6:22. And that's what he wants to talk about next. Thank God for that. We were baptized eis Christon--unto Christ, as 1 Corinthians 10:2, eis Mosen--unto Moses. The old life of sin may promise pleasure, but ultimately it brings only misery. Verse 1 relates to 5:20, while Rom. And I became a Christian to live a Christian life, and that's what I want to do. Satan can use my life and fill it with hatred and cut people down, or God can use my life and fill it with His love and build people up. b. Found inside – Page 94Romans 6:1b–11 1bShould we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? ... Commentary 1: Connecting the Reading with Scripture Larger Literary Context ... What shall we say then? Now the action of Eve was a double action. In those passages we are told that saints not only find sin attractive but that they often sin. It is to walk in newness of life,Romans 6:4; Romans 6:4. So after stating the problem, and discussing God's gracious provision for holy living, Paul wants to talk about our responsibility: our daily practice. To iniquity unto iniquity. THE RESURRECTION LIFE Romans 6:1-14 It is decidedly unpleasant when anybody is subjected to false accusations and malicious rumours. "Certainly not!" "But present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.". That's is exactly why so many preachers dilute God's grace; they're afraid that if they preach it as the Bible states it, their people will interpret that as a license to sin. ". It is utterly incongruous and absolutely absurd for somebody who has died to his past and begun a new chapter in his life to go back and open the first chapter and live it again. Their old nature, the flesh, though condemned by Christ at the cross, is not yet destroyed. So a spirit in union with God's Spirit, my thoughts, my consciousness now is upon God and the things of God and how I might please Him by walking in the spirit. How can we go on living in sin as believers, even though God's grace is vast enough to cover all our sins? The way to do that is to reckon that old self to be dead. Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Contrary to what many believe, it is possible to “live in sin.” When someone becomes a Christian the friendly relationship with sin must end. 11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin. ( S) but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Likewise, reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. You were free from righteousness (Romans 6:20; Romans 6:20); not free by any liberty given, but by a liberty taken, which is licentiousness: "You were altogether void of that which is good,--void of any good principles, motions, or inclinations,--void of all subjection to the law and will of God, of all conformity to his image; and this you were highly pleased with, as a freedom and a liberty; but a freedom from righteousness is the worst kind of slavery.". Baptism means participating in Christ. Romans 6:14. And this is what he is encouraging us to do. (14-23) Commentary on Romans 14:1-6 (Read Romans 14:1-6) Differences of opinion prevailed even among the immediate followers of Christ and their disciples. If you are born again by the Spirit of God, the new life that you now have is spirit, soul, and body. "Yield yourselves to him, not only as the conquered yields to the conqueror, because he can stand it out no longer; but as the wife yields herself to her husband, to whom her desire is, as the scholar yields himself to the teacher, the apprentice to his master, to be taught and ruled by him. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. Paul previously introduced the idea of Christ as our representative in Romans 5:12-21 (cf. The wages of sin is death. The old life after Adam is a life after the flesh. God said, "Thou shall not eat of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, and in the day you do, you are going to die." He appeals to themselves (Romans 6:21; Romans 6:21), whether they had not found the service of sin, [1.] The body is not sinful in itself. If where sin abounds, grace does much more abound, Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? The death of the cross was a slow death; the body, after it was nailed to the cross, gave many a throe and many a struggle: but it was a sure death, long in expiring, but expired at last; such is the mortification of sin in believers. The gospel is good news; and the man who has to preach it is full of good wishes. 5. Death no longer has dominion over him, for the death that He died, He died to sin once for all, but the life that He lives, He lives to God.". To persuade us from sin to holiness here are blessing and cursing, good and evil, life and death, set before us; and we are put to our choice. The end of sin is death (Romans 6:21; Romans 6:21): The end of those things is death. Christians have no obligation to the flesh. Found insidePaul's Letter to the Romans may well be the most influential book in Christian history. No, it is an abuse, and the apostle startles at the thought of it (Romans 6:2; Romans 6:2): "God forbid; far be it from us to think such a thought." It has no power over them (5-7). We must, with the prodigal, quit the drudgery of the citizen of the country, before we can come to our Father's house. ( Romans 6:2 ). 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But in this and the two following chapters he takes up the subject in a regular, formal manner; and shows both Jews and Gentiles that the principles of the Christian religion absolutely require a holy heart and a holy life, and make the amplest provisions for both. It is in this respect that Paul described believers as identified with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection in the following verses. Because believers are ‘in Christ’, this death to sin and victorious entry into new life becomes theirs as well. If you have never trusted the Lord Jesus as your Savior, would you, right now, make that decision. "To reckon" does not mean to pretend it's true when we know it isn't. Using my body as an instrument of sin or yielding my body as an instrument for God to use for His glory.I agree with that song "I have decided to follow Jesus." Through Christ as the author and maintainer of this life; through Christ as the head from whom we receive vital influence; through Christ as the root by which we derive sap and nourishment, and so live. Romans 6:3. But what fruit did you have then in those things wherein you are not ashamed? I mean, that seems to be the way they're living. The death is the wages of sin, it comes by desert; but the life is a gift, it comes by favour. 1. Some manuscripts treat continue as a present tense verb in Romans 6:1; others have it in the future tense. If I weren't living in this body any longer then I would have no problems. It is delicious, and you won't die. I’ve read people who said this is what Paul means! I have received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. The main emphasis in Romans, however, is on the practical expression of sanctification. That's what happens to us when we trust Christ for salvation. Perhaps then believers should not worry about practicing sin since it results in the manifestation of more of God’s grace and His greater glory. For we profess to be crucified with him, to die and rise again, We should not, therefore, let sin reign in our bodies, but live, The Gospel makes no provision for living in sin, any more than. 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. This has happened because of our baptism into Christ Jesus (Romans 6:3). Therefore, they must give every part of themselves to God, so that God, not sin, might work through them (12-13). There is a difference between Galatians 4:10-11 or Colossians 2:16-17 and Romans 14. The law has no power to deliver us from sin's power. Romans 6:4-5. And he has explained that when we begin to grasp the immensity of all we have in Christ as a result of our justification, we become all the more convinced that faith alone will see us through to heaven's glory. He likens it to a biography written in two volumes. Thus we must improve our baptism as a bridle of restraint to keep us in from sin, as a spur of constraint to quicken us to duty. and. Romans 6:14-20 The dispensation of grace freeth us from the dominion of sin; but we are still the servants of sin, if we Help us to be honest with You today and deal with the sin in our lives. It can no longer rule over my consciousness, because that old man was crucified with Christ.As Christians our biggest problem is with our flesh. This book will clear up centuries-long confusion on this important text for holy living. But this book is about more than overcoming sin, saying no to sin's desires, or keeping sin in its place so that it doesn't rule over us. I am still living in the body, that is my big problem. We're joined to Him. So far as his crime was concerned, the prisoner had paid for it with his life. He does not explain away the free grace of the gospel, but he shows that connexion between justification and holiness are inseparable. It refers to the body, not to sin. They get only disappointment, bondage and death (20-21). "Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey it in its lusts. It is the way of love. Don't put that off. This expression could be translated may such a thing never occur, away with the thought (Wuest, 1:92). And knowing who we are and what we have in Christ helps to answer the question, "Why shouldn't we go on sinning?" They do it naturally, from birth. justification by faith is not simply a legal matter between me and God; it is a living relationship." When we are delivered out of Egypt, shall we talk of going back to it again? During the Civil War a man named George Wyatt was drawn by lot to go to the front. I have freedom, glorious freedom from the tyranny of the flesh, the power of sin, and it shall not have dominion over me. He understood that no Christian will be perfect (James 3:2), but living in sin is not acceptable to God. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he lives, he lives unto God ( Romans 6:7-10 ). God, of course, is life. Though it be a slow death, yet this must needs hasten it that it is an old man that is crucified; not in the prime of its strength, but decaying: that which waxeth old is ready to vanish away, Hebrews 8:13. Found insideA CONTRAST BETWEEN ADAM AND CHRIST Romans 5:12–21 THE BEHAVIOR OF THOSE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH Romans 6:1–8:39 BEHAVIOR AND BAPTISM Romans 6:1–14 BEHAVIOR AND ... Moreover, there is the glaring fact that the scriptures nowhere either affirm or even imply that faith includes the keeping of the commandments. "Lord, that is a part of the old life dominated by my flesh. The overwhelming conviction registered here is that all of God's commandments are righteousness, and that none on them may be bypassed with impunity. Volume one is finished. Romans 6:14, KJV: "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." For (Romans 6:7; Romans 6:7) he that is dead is freed from sin; that is, he that is dead to it is freed from the rule and dominion of it, as the servant that is dead is freed from his master, Job 3:19. [3.] Romans 6:13b. Don't resist that decision. Paul has already explained the significance of Christ’s death. the law did; and those who commit sin are the slaves of sin, The degrading and afflictive service of sin, and its wages, eternal death; the blessed effects of the grace of God in the. The flesh is hostile to God’s law and will not submit to it (Isaiah 64:6; Romans 8:7-8). He lived in complete obedience to God’s law, died to pay its penalty on behalf of sinners, then rose victoriously to new life. See how the apostle starts at such a thought (Romans 6:15; Romans 6:15): Shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? This leads naturally to the question which opens Romans 6. Second, the power which our old sin nature had over us was broken. ( Romans 6:20-21 ). Our creed concerning Jesus Christ is, among other things, that he was crucified, dead, and buried; now baptism is a sacramental conformity to him in each of these, as the apostle here takes notice. If we died to it, how can we respond to it at all? In dealing with sin he broke its power so that people might no longer be enslaved by it (Romans 8:3; Hebrews 2:14-15). Now do you understand verses 1 and 2 a little better? I am not perfect, far from it. Certainly … Romans [] CHAP. but in that he … If it were actually dead. Lord Jesus, come into my heart and save me right now. The Apostle now takes notice of that most common objection against the preaching of divine grace, which is this, — “That if it be true, that the more bountifully and abundantly will the grace of God aid us, the more completely we are overwhelmed with the mass of sin; then nothing is better for us than to be sunk into the depth of sin, and often to provoke God’s wrath with new offenses; for then at length we shall find more abounding grace; than which nothing better can be desired.” The refutation of this we shall here after meet with. Thus we must rise from the grave of sin never again to return to it, nor to have any more fellowship with the works of darkness, having quitted that grave, that land of darkness as darkness itself. It happened at a definite time (the time of conversion as the following verses show). Dead people don't have a problem with sin. Shall we sin against so much goodness, abuse such love? The Reformers saw it as the God-given key to understanding the whole of Scripture. Throughout church history the study of the book of Romans has been pivotal to understanding Christian life and doctrine. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection.". You say, "Well, I've made that commitment, but I'm still defeated by sin." "For he who has died has been freed from sin.". God of resurrection, you have promised new life to all who believe. Putting ourselves back under the law won't help. It's power has been broken. After his death this no longer happened. When we trusted Christ and were placed in union with Him, three things happened to us. Proceeding in the same line of argument, and without so much as getting his breath (Paul knew nothing of chapter divisions), Paul poured out a few paragraphs that explode completely any interpretation of his doctrine of justification by faith, as a justification that came without submission to the ordinance of baptism. The words translated "done away with" do not mean destroyed, but rather defeated, made ineffective, dealt a crushing blow. Romans 13:11-14 The Day When Christ Returns. And that, for many of Paul's readers, is the problem. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:   6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Observe this reasoning. It's possible that maybe you haven't even turned the page over yet. Oh the blessings that God has made available to us revealed in Jesus Christ, eternal life through Jesus Christ.Father, we thank You for Thy word, a lamp unto our feet, a light unto our path, for the balanced life through the Word. This means a Christian’s death to sin was at a particular point and time in the past. The law was brought in alongside to show how gross and vile sin really is. They are willing to jump on anything, aren't they? Nevertheless, believers still live in a world where everything suffers from the effects of sin. You can choose to live like the devil, or you can choose to live like God. There are some things we must do in order to get all this great doctrinal truth operating in our daily experience. Let us, however, go on in our course; nor let Christ be suppressed, because he is to many a stone of offense, and a rock of stumbling; for as he is for ruin to the ungodly, so he is to the godly for a resurrection. It would be totally inconsistent. But we do have a sinful nature that operates through the body, seeks to control the body and use the body to express its sinful desires. How can we who died to sin still live in it? Romans 5:1-21 The Reign of Grace over the Reign of Sin. Christians ought not to sin. God’s *blessings for the *Jews 9:1-5. v1 I speak the truth in *Christ. Secondly, The nature of grace, as it is our conformity to that rule. Why this burying in baptism should so much as allude to any custom of dipping under water in baptism, any more than our baptismal crucifixion and death should have any such references, I confess I cannot see. It is simply to help Christians understand who they are in Christ and what happened to them when they believed in the Lord Jesus. A sermon for Ascension of the Lord Sunday. [2.] All the children of men are either the servants of God, or the servants of sin; these are the two families. We still have that option, as we have all learned through bitter experience. Don't let sin . We can’t continue to sin so that grace may abound for the fundamental reason that we are dead to sin. They pictured this in their baptism and they must now show it to be true in their daily lives (6:1-4).For believers in Christ, the old life has gone, the new has come. It never seems to strike such advocates as inconsistent that the meaning of the word "alone" cannot be so restricted. First, Our old man is crucified with him,Romans 6:6; Romans 6:6. Since we have been identified with Christ in His death for our sin, sin has no further claim on our lives. [1] H. C. G. Moule, The Epistle to the Romans (London: Pickering and Inglis, Ltd.), p. 156. I died to my old flames. Those opinions that give any countenance to sin, or open a door to practical immoralities, how specious and plausible soever they be rendered, by the pretension of advancing free grace, are to be rejected with the greatest abhorrence; for the truth as it is in Jesus is a truth according to godliness,Titus 1:1. At the end verse two Paul asked how a Christian could continue to live in sin. We were united with Christ not only in His death, but also in His resurrection. So also when believers died to sin through Christ, the full penalty that sin demanded was met for them. Any argument from what the enemies of Christianity said is so weak as to be worthless. Let me tell you, friend, if you ever dedicated your sexual organs to God, you'd be very much more careful about how you used them. Some instill fear: "You better shape up or God's going to get you. The gift of God, the life after the Spirit, ends in eternal life. Romans 6:8-10. 17 volumes of the William Barclay's Commentary on … Use your sanctified common sense and you’ll know that the phrase can’t mean this. It's the strongest negative of which the Greek language is capable. Some distort God's grace. for the end of those things is death ( Romans 6:21 ). Baptism joins us to Christ. What's the solution to the problem of sin in believer's life? It is Christ that purchased it, prepared it, prepares us for it, preserves us to it; he is the Alpha and Omega, All in all in our salvation. 1 What shall we say then? Paul’s new area of attention is found at the end of verse 1. My flesh still wants to sit on the throne of my life and the spirit wants to sit on the throne of my life and there is a battle waging raging, actually, over the control of my life itself, the flesh and the spirit. And it doesn't picture some vague and general union, but relates specifically to two important events in Christ's experience which became part of our experience at the moment of our salvation--His death and His resurrection. Our sinful nature is still there, very much alive and active. [7] Encyclopedia Brittanica, Vol. Romans 14:1-6 New International Version (NIV) The Weak and the Strong. Commentary on Romans 6:1-14. Romans 13:8-10 Love Your Neighbor. Don't you realize that water represented the grave? heart, of which eternal life is the fruit, 20-23. We must not abuse the boundless goodness of God by continuing, in sin, under the wicked persuasion that the more we sin the, For, having been baptized into Christ, we have professed thereby. When I marched down the aisle and came to the altar at Calvary Church of Bristol in 1954, we said some things, and my dad, who was the pastor, said some things, and he united us together. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. But I am still living in the body, and as long as I am living in this body it is going to struggle for supremacy, and thus, I must keep my body under. [2.] People's lives can be blessed and transformed by your words, and lives can be cut down and destroyed by your words.Satan can use my body as his instrument of destruction, or God can use my body as His instrument of glory. Furthermore, if Paul had actually taught what some of the advocates of Luther's theory teach, their slanders would have been truth! It was early July, 1863, about two years into the war, when Lee's Southern troops attacked the larger and better supplied Union army at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, not too many miles from where I grew up. People are to become very conscious of sin and do their best to avoid it. Your life will be fruitless and frustrating as a professing believer in Jesus Christ, until you make this decision and yield your body to Him. The devil could not force them into the service, if they did not yield themselves to it. Crucified with him--synestaurothe, not in respect of time, but in respect of causality. It might be objected that we cannot conquer and subdue sin, it is unavoidably too hard for us: "No," says he, "you wrestle with an enemy that may be dealt with and subdued, if you will but keep your ground and stand to your arms; it is an enemy that is already foiled and baffled; there is strength laid up in the covenant of grace for your assistance, if you will but use it. Our old man isn't our old sin nature, but the person we were before we were saved, our life before conversion, our former self. Amen.As we move next week into chapters 7 and 8, they are chapters of extreme contrast. 2. If that supposition of Luther's had been the truth, then his doctrine would have been true, and it may be presumed that the apostles would have pointed it out and used the same terminology Luther used. a. In this work he distills his knowledge in a way that is accessible to the ordinary person. If one wants to become acquainted with Paul's theology and gospel in Romans, this volume is the perfect place to begin. The apostle here obviates an objection he saw would be made against the doctrine he had advanced, concerning the aboundings of the grace of God in such persons and places, where sin had abounded; which if true, might some persons say, then it will be most fit and proper to continue in a sinful course of life, to give up ourselves to all manner of iniquity, since this is the way to make the grace of God abound yet more and more: now says the apostle, what shall we say to this? How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? That's been the theme of chapter 5. And when the old chapter of my life closed, the power of that sin nature was broken. shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? I am now in the risen Christ. Would you make that decision right now? (3.) So, Romans 6:23; Romans 6:23, The gift of God is eternal life. The motives or arguments here used to show the necessity of sanctification. And when we are baptized into his ‘death unto sin’ we participate, have fellowship, with him in death unto sin. Romans 6:6. The corruption that dwelleth in us is the body of sin, consisting of many parts and members, as a body. "The letter to Romans is a Pauline manual for Christians who wrestle with the human condition being vulnerable to the pressures of this world." Volume two is the story of my new self, my life now as a new creation in Christ. Christ is our spiritual life; there is no living to God but through him. It is to be alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord,Romans 6:11; Romans 6:11. And I pray that those who have never yet trusted Christ as eternal Savior from sin will not let this opportunity slip by, but will respond to Your grace in faith and open their hearts to the Lord Jesus, in whose name we pray. 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