It is, in fact, the simple truth that the ethical change is not possible without that union. If he wants a word spoken, he has to get a man to speak it. And where? Sinner, hang on that. We must not yield our members as instruments of unrighteousness,Romans 6:13; Romans 6:13. Such is the doctrine and the fact. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves The effect of this baptism was held to be complete regeneration; he was called a little child just born, the child of one day. higher, if so high, in this epistle. It is to yield our members as instruments of righteousness to God. The earth, or, at least, the Jewish nation, had been familiar with such dealings of God in times past. Alas! 10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. God is gracious, but holy; He is faithful, but righteous. Take the quiz. ), Likewise reckon ye also yourselves,. Two things the apostle would have believers consider of themselves, and reckon themselves, to be, in consequence of their relation to Christ, who was dead, but is alive, and as agreeable thereunto: the one is, that they would look upon themselves, to be dead indeed unto sin: believe their discharge from it, and not fear condemnation and death on account of it; and that it shall not be imputed to them, or have any damning power over them, since Christ has died unto it, or for it; and therefore should have no fellowship with it, nothing to do with it, as being dead unto it, and that to them: the other is, that they would consider themselves. The concept of being in Christ is probably best understood in accordance with our understanding of Pauls references to the believers dying and being raised with Christ in baptism. We only pause to remark that this is one of the most jubilant notes in the whole gospel scale; for see, brethren, the rich mysteries, which, like the many seeds of the pomegranate, are all enclosed in the golden apple of resurrection. Following up with the teaching of the olive-tree, he carries out the same thought of a remnant that abides on their own stock, and points to a re-instatement of the nation, And I would just observe by the way, that the Gentile cry that no Jew ever accepts the gospel in truth is a falsehood. Romans 6:11. I am not perfect, far from it. Just as the Savior cannot die again, so the child of God cannot die a second time. Nothing less, I am persuaded, than this full blessing is the line that God has given to those who have followed Christ without the camp, and who, having been set free from the contracted ways of men, desire to enter into the largeness and at the same time the profound wisdom of every word of God. Would it not be a strange doctrine indeed if any man should dream that the Son of God would again offer his life a sacrifice. Did they deny that they were a foolish nation? [Note: Newell, p. Paul's first reaction is to recoil from that argument in sheer horror. I. They offered men release from the cares and sorrows and fears of this earth; and the release was by union with some god. What He does is to pierce and penetrate the man's conscience. As those that are alive from the dead. It spoke of the way in which a Christian should live so close to Christ that all his life can be said to be lived in him. We talked with some of our friends, and they found our conversation so different from what it used to be that it made their hearts burn within them, just as Jesus Christ's disciples when they went to Emmaus. Romans 6:11, ESV: So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. In modern times we may have tended to stress the fact that acceptance of the Christian way need not make so very much difference in a man's life. The law never delivers; it condemns and kills us. To man this is the hardest of all obedience; but when once secured, it leads peacefully into the obedience of every day. 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." They said you knew nothing of life, so your ungodly friends put you in the sepulclive, and others of them rolled a great stone against you. "But unto Israel he saith, All day long have I stretched out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.". Paul previously introduced the idea of Christ as our representative in Romans 5:12-21 (cf. It is not a question of His mercy merely; for this weakens the truth immensely, and perverts its character wholly. Sin does not matter, for God will forgive anyway. Romans 6: A Concise Commentary September 1, 2020 by Zane Hodges in Grace in Focus Articles From The Grace New Testament Commentary (Revised Edition) By Zane Hodges Our Union with Christ in His Death and Resurrection (6:1-11) 6:1-2. Unfortunately, the fruit was miserable fruit, and it left misery in its wake. They set up the golden calf, and thus cast off the true God, their God, even in the desert. Sweating great drops of blood, he nevertheless flinches not from the dread assault. Christ was in prison as a hostage, kept there as a surety; now that he is suffered to go free, it is a declaration on God's behalf that he has nothing against us; our substitute is discharged; we are discharged. Jesus comes, arrayed in his pontifical garments, wearing the breast-plate, bearing the ephod, a priest for ever after the order of Melchisidec: his kingly character is not forgotten, for his head is adorned with a glittering crown, and o'er his shoulders he bears the prophet's mantle. If so, rest thy soul on it, and make it shine as a matter of confidence, and then thou art saved. The wages of sin, the life after the flesh, it ends in death. Let the muffled drums beat the Dead march! There is no inspiration in all the world like love. He was debtor both to the Greeks and the barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise; he was ready, as far as he was concerned, to preach the gospel to those that were at Rome also (ver. "For sin," and I love this. May the Spirit of God bring many of you to Christ. We need not here enter into the details; but on the surface we see how the apostle brings all down to that which is of the deepest interest to every soul. "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! The flesh always wants to do evil, and if believers give way to it, it will bring them under its power again, ruling them like an evil master and making them useless for God. He entertains the objection as Christ did the devil's blackest temptation (Matthew 4:10): Get thee hence, Satan. Sanctification is the road to holiness. 2 Corinthians 5:14). But all of that weight of glorious inheritance shall ultimately belong to the Christian only if Christ continues to reign in his heart and his identity with Christ is not effaced through sin. ", Well, then, it seems that as Christ was, so we also are dead. The symbolism of being buried with Christ and raised to new life is not lost on the believer's baptism because it's like the old man or woman dying and being buried and then being raised out of the water to new life in Jesus Christ. Albie is arrested for the murder of Clive Grayson, his son-in-law. Initiation was always regarded as a death followed by a new birth, by which the man was renatus in aeternum, reborn for eternity. Now he must consider his life as one wholly devoted to God. The debt is discharged to the utmost farthing; the account is cleared; the balance is struck; the scales of justice turn in our favor; God's sword is sheathed for ever, and the blood of Christ has sealed it in its scabbard. Nothing a man can do gives him a claim as of right against God to be included in the remnant. But now, to meet the question that was raised, they pleaded the distinguishing promises to Israel. Moreover, He gave up the knowledge of God that had been handed down from father to son (ver. Death is not dead; the grave is not open; there will be no resurrection! gad not about to find any other hope! They are willing to jump on anything, aren't they? Because believers are in Christ, this death to sin and victorious entry into new life becomes theirs as well. Still, it is "man" not yet exactly the Jew, but man who had profited, it might be, by whatever the Jew had; at the least, by the workings of natural conscience. Hence the very fact of being renewed makes one sensible of a far more intense misery than ever, while there is no power until the soul looks right outside self to Him who is dead and risen, who has anticipated the difficulty, and alone gives the full answer to all wants. It shows the design and tendency of the Christian scheme. For the truth is that God has in Christ condemned sin, and this for sin definitely; so that He has nothing more to do in condemnation of that root of evil. 10 For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God. What they had been and done formerly. Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness. But the Jew might argue that it was an unjust thing in principle this gospel, these tidings of which the apostle was so full; for why should one man affect many, yea, all? Romans 6:11 - Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary. "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." Oh! Romans 6:1 to Romans 7:6. We have therefore been buried with him through baptism until we died, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the father, so we, too, may live in newness of life. Our flesh will still bring us under its control and power. Would that the Lord would give us hearts to remember, as well as eyes to see, according to His own grace! They must believe it to be true and live accordingly (8-11). The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright 1982 Thomas Nelson. Just as Jesus died unto sin once for all, the Christian is to consider himself as one who dies to sin in his baptism. 6:1-8:39 THE WAY OF HOLINESS (SANCTIFICATION). He that is dead is separated from his former company, converse, business, enjoyments, employments, is not what he was, does not what he did, has not what he had. Empty your Quivers! He does so without a struggle; he is dumb in the shambles before the slaughterers; he gives up the warm blood of his heart to the hand of the executioner, that he might expiate the wrath of God. Christians have died with Christ (6:8a) 2. It will be observed therefore, that in this connection the apostle shows the place both of conscience and of the law, that God in judging will take into full consideration the circumstances and condition of every soul of man. When sin curses us, we are as little moved by its curses as by its promises. As He has given us through the blood of Jesus full remission, as we shall be saved by this life, as He has made us know even now nothing short of present conscious deliverance from every whit of evil that belongs to our very nature, as we have the Spirit the earnest of the glory to which we are destined, as we are the vessels of gracious sorrow in the midst of that from which we are not yet delivered but shall be, so now we have the certainty that, whatever betide, God is for us, and that nothing shall separate us from His love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. When you were slaves of sin, you were free as regards righteousness; but then what fruit did you have? Thus the proof was complete. and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. He begins with the great epoch of the dispensations of God (that is, the ages since the flood). "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized unto Jesus Christ were baptized unto his death?" (5.) The main point is that "all have sinned," whatever advantage someone might have from their relationship to salvation history or their lifetime of Torah study counts for nothing in the face of that, and as sinners redeemed by the grace of Jesus Christ all the members of the church are on the same [equal] footing. It deeply behooves us then to live like him as nearly as possible. And eternal life the glorious ultimate results. No man can tell. For pay he uses opsonia ( G3800) . At last the time came when hell had gathered up all its forces, and now was also come the hour when Christ, as our substitute, must carry his obedience to the utmost length; he must be obedient unto death. (1.) Will that glorious victim really be slain? This is the conclusion in the next verse: be dead unto sin (11a) but alive unto God (both expressions are in the present tense). for the end of those things is death ( Romans 6:21 ). For example, "I reckon its going to rain this afternoon." All then that believe, though uncircumcised, might claim him as father, assured that righteousness will be reckoned to them too. So believe and act on the basis of your new identity, not your old identity. The corruption is total. True ministry gives out not merely truth, but suited truth to the saints. Sin is like a cruel master that they cannot escape, no matter how much they may want to (John 8:34; Romans 7:21-23). Prepare your arrows! "I am not ashamed," etc. Finally he brings in Isaiah, showing that, far from retaining their blessing as an unbroken people, a remnant alone would be saved. The meaning, then, of the words may be thus expressed, Take this view of your case, that as Christ once died for the purpose of destroying sin, so you have once died, that in future you may cease from sin; yea, you must daily proceed with that work of mortifying, which is begun in you, till sin be wholly destroyed: as Christ is raised to an incorruptible life, so you are regenerated by the grace of God, that you may lead a life of holiness and righteousness, inasmuch as the power of the Holy Spirit, by which ye have been renewed, is eternal, and shall ever continue the same. But I prefer to retain the words of Paul,in Christ Jesus, rather than to translate with [Erasmus ], through Christ Jesus; for thus the grafting, which makes us one with Christ, is better expressed. Christ is our spiritual life; there is no living to God but through him. Now he said that we should count on their being true. When the strong man armed is dispossessed, let him whose right it is divide the spoils. All the world was guilty before God. Hence the depravity of the heathen found little or no cheek from conscience, because it was bound up with all that took the shape of God before their mind. Therefore, they must give every part of themselves to God, so that God, not sin, might work through them (12-13). But thus the way is now clear for bringing the Jew into the discussion. Since these Christians had died with the Lord, they had access to a great privilege-living with the Lord. If you are born again by the Spirit of God, the new life that you now have is spirit, soul, and body. There is no simple mind that can evade the plain force of this last expression. This decision (choice) is a one-time act. Of course, it could hardly be the law: that was the boast of Israel. But, when Christ rose, he rose to die no more; therefore he left his grave-clothes behind him, whereas Lazarus, who was to die again, brought them out with him, as one that should have occasion to use them again: but over Christ death has no more dominion; he was dead indeed, but he is alive, and so alive that he lives for evermore, Revelation 1:18. Now I speak after the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness ( Romans 6:18-19 ). Death is as due to a sinner when he hath sinned as wages are to a servant when he hath done his work. From the top of Olivet he ascends until a cloud receives him out of their sight. "For God so loved the World, that He gave His only begotten Son, so that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting Life." ~John 3:16 Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of thy love. It was not something they were once taught and then forgot. Is it possible that God's Lamb will actually submit to die? It is against the "unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness." SHARE ! He brings out the peculiar glories of Israel according to the depth of the gospel as he knew and preached it; at least, of His person who is the object of faith now revealed. The great point is to note the true picture given us of a soul quickened, but labouring and miserable under law, not at all consciously delivered. It is here that you will find a great failure of Christendom as to this. He died as a sacrifice. Now it is the positive power of God in raising up from the dead Him that was delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justifying. Thus one could not fail to see these two weighty inferences: the bringing in to be God's sons of those that had not been His people, and the judgment and destruction of the great mass of His undoubted people. it is the prerogative of rational creatures that they are endued with a power of prospect, are capable of looking forward, considering the latter end of things. The power of sin that enslaved us, condemned us and separated us from God has been broken, because we have received a new life - the new life of Christ, which we were given when we first believed. 5:17; Luke 24:27; Rom. He is not a dead Savior, a dead sacrifice. Not he. In the Ephesians reference, the words put off are an aorist infinitive. Help me, Lord." How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Thus then, if Paul gave his own sense of Jewish privileges, there was no unbelieving Jew that rose up to his estimate of them. It is a life where the body is dominant, and the consciousness is occupied by the body needs. THE BEARING OF JUSTIFICATION BY GRACE UPON A HOLY LIFE. Secondly, We are dead with Christ, Romans 6:8; Romans 6:8. Our Redeemer lives unto God, that is he lives in constant fellowship with God. Death did not control the Lord and sin cannot be in control of someones life after becoming a Christian! Robert Louis Stevenson said: "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." Consequently the call of God, and not the birth simply makes the real difference. He was his master's absolutely exclusive possession. It is not said to be revealed in the gospel. ". There never can be solid peace with God without both. . for on your own showing, according to that word to which we all bow, you must admit that one man's sin brought in universal moral ruin and death. In some parts of the United States, "I reckon" means "I guess." 3. Did the call of God. If the first book in the Bible showed that it was only the call of God that made Israel what they were, its second book as clearly proved that all was over with the called people, had it not been for the mercy of God. But in this verse he says "therefore". die the second death, but shall have everlasting life. Law works wrath because it provokes transgression; grace makes the promise sure to all the seed, not only because faith is open to the Gentile and Jew alike, but because God is looked to as a quickener of the dead. Every mouth was stopped; the Jew by his own oracles, as the Gentile by their evident abominations, shown already. 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. Even where the law was, not by it but by faith the just lived. Thus, the death to sin that saved people have experienced is a once in a lifetime process. All Israel shall be saved. Because I am dead to sin, that old life is dead. The whole work is done. exceeding sinfulness of sin, and the insufficiency of their own He had to undergo a course of ascetic discipline. In verses 5-7 he draws out the implications in terms of death to sin, and in verses 8-11 he draws out the implications . N N ew Adam ( Romans 5:12-21) - We are children of two "Adams". I am now in the risen Christ. 18). In the first part of verse 5, Paul states the fact that we (believers) have become united with Christ in the . Are we to persist in sin that grace may abound? Without faith there is neither justice nor life that God owns; where faith is, the rest will surely follow. who would defraud God of that which He delights in the blessedness of bringing in deliverance by that One man, of whom Adam was the image? Let it not be! the Jew was none the better for this, unless there were the submission of his conscience to God. But the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against them pre-eminently. The Objector: You have just said that God's grace is great enough to find forgiveness for every sin. First, Our old man is crucified with him,Romans 6:6; Romans 6:6. the other is, that they would consider themselves. Lard contributes: By being immersed into Christ, we so became one with him, as to die in him when he died. Jump to: Clarke's Commentary Bridgeway Bible Commentary Coffman's Commentaries on the Bible Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible Living By Faith: Commentary on Romans & 1st Corinthians Calvin's Commentary on the Bible Smith's Bible Commentary Contending . Paul's joy and boast were in the gospel of God. What a rebuke this should be to those in modern times who are ever straining after novelties. As a Christian there is a warfare that is going on in me, for the flesh is warring against my spirit and my spirit is warring against my flesh and these two are contrary to each other.There is this battle going on for the control of my mind, the control of my life. Paul has a simple command and encouragement for the Christian: be what you are. quickened by the Spirit of Christ, and can feel the burden of We died in Christ, i.e, to sin, were dead in him, and with him returned again to life. Know (oida) is in the perfect tense, and this means these Christians had received these truths in the past and Paul believed they still remembered. God has condemned the flesh. "Righteousness" never means mercy, not even the "righteousness of God." Nevertheless, believers still live in a world where everything suffers from the effects of sin. All rights reserved. In the breaking of bread they first knew you. "I'm sorry, sir, but we don't do that here." "But I've got religion," the man explained. Blindness in part has happened to Israel: Paul summarizes his point from Romans 11:11-24. [Note: The New Scofield Reference Bible, p. The first is Moses himself. He rose to live to God, that is, to intercede and rule, and all to the glory of the Father. We must not just understand them but believe them. By The Rev. In Jesus' name we ask it, Father. The death is the wages of sin, it comes by desert; but the life is a gift, it comes by favour. For gift he uses charisma ( G5486) . (2.) There he sits, expecting the hour when his enemies shall be made his footstool. 16:25-26; 2 Cor. Is this motive enough to empower the Christian to reject the old reign of sin that ever and anon seeks to dethrone the Christ and resume it tyrannical sway over the human heart? Thus the first argument shows that the rejection was not total; the second, that it was but for a season. God has not yet fulfilled His complete purposes in my life. (3.) Commentary on Romans 6:11-15 (Read Romans 6:11-15) The strongest motives against sin, and to enforce holiness, are here stated. 2 God forbid. [2.] Oh! The crucifying of Christ for us has an influence upon the crucifying of sin in us. : otherwise. Romans 6:11 Parallel Verses [ See commentary ] Romans 6:11, NIV: In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. The members of our bodies, when withdrawn from the service of sin, are not to lie idle, but to be made use of in the service of God. There is a disposition continually to imagine that what is frequently spoken of must be understood; but experience will soon show that this is not the case. All his sins were remitted because God could not punish sins committed before he was born. ( NASB: Lockman) He loved even here at the threshold to show the breadth of God's grace. Be it so then; it was a foolish nation by which Moses declared they should be angered. One of the more popular theories is that Soviet geologists . Has God then no delivering power from this? He lays down such a summary as no Jew ever gave since they were a nation. Before a man could see the drama he had to be initiated. Not so, says the apostle. This body of sin was put out of business. "Consider" is in the present tense in the Greek text indicating that we need to maintain a realistic view of our relationship to sin (i.e., to "keep on considering"). Verse Romans 6:11. But we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead. How could the Jews say that this meant themselves? What gives glory to God like this? Upon what ground? Sinner, dost thou believe this as a matter of fact? The shock of the last catastrophe shall shake both heaven and earth, until the stars shall fall like withered fig-leaves from the tree, but nothing shall move the unchanging Savior. Justification is not from works of law. The Darvaza gas crater (Turkmen media use the name Shining of the Karakum: Turkmen: Garagum alkymy), also known as the Door to Hell or Gates of Hell, is a burning natural gas field collapsed into a cavern near Darvaza, Turkmenistan.. "He rose again for our justification." The first fact here very clearly indicated is that Jesus died. ye who would be save'd, believe that Jesus died; believe that the Son of God expired; trust that death to save you, and you are saved. I am not going to have to reckon it any more after that. Hence, as God's wrath is revealed from heaven, it is against every form of impiety "against all ungodliness." The Greek would understand. The sleeping-time is forgotten, and to your sleeping-body it will seem no time at all, while to your glorified soul it will not seem long because you will be so full of joy that a whole eternity of that joy would not be too long. He lives, my brethren, to manifest the divine character. Inasmuch as Jesus died, he is now living. gospel of God. Compare Peter's use in1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:10. And this lies in the fact that Abraham believed God before he had the son, being fully persuaded that what He had promised He was able to perform. In the fourth verse this could not be absent; in the first verse it ought not to be present. The gulf is bridged, and God can have communion with man! Don't you realize that as you were put in the water it was the burial of the old life? Their own Scriptures maintained, as nothing else could, that all the wretchedness which is now found in the world, and the condemnation which hangs over the race, is the fruit of one man, and indeed of one act. 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. There was a great gulf fixed, so that if we would pass to God we could not, neither could he pass to us if he would condescend to do so. That was said to Paul, rather than what was taught by Paul. Bring out your funeral music! To live indeed is to live to God, with our eyes ever towards him, making him the centre of all our actions. But in spite of the good that they do, human nature is still directed by sin. Cannot you do so too by the Holy Spirit? He touches the stone; it rolls away; he sits upon it, as if he would defy the whole universe to roll that stone back again. This described Paul and others who had died with the Lord (verses 2, 4). Then, in Romans 9:1-33; Romans 10:1-21; Romans 11:1-36, the apostle handles a difficulty serious to any mind, especially to the Jew, who might readily feel that all this display of grace in Christ to the Gentile as much as to the Jew by the gospel seems to make very cheap the distinctive place of Israel as given of God. This seems to be the spirit of the apostle's meaning. (2.) But I am to surrender them to God that He might take and use my body for His glory. Hence, then, we find that the whole chapter is founded on this truth. It is a reproach to the service of sin that so many thousands have quitted the service, and shaken off the yoke; and never any that sincerely deserted it, and gave themselves to the service of God, have returned to the former drudgery. Our business, my brethren, is the old labor of apostolic tongues, to declare that Jesus, who is the same yesterday to-day and for ever. Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord ( Romans 6:11 ). This God has wrought in Christ. But my old flesh is still very much alive, too much alive. It staggers the imagination itself. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of . Observe again, it is not victory here; for that would give place to human pride. This passed away with man when he sinned. The whole history of Israel, past, present, and future falls in with, although quite distinct from, that which he had been expounding. nothing to do with it, as being dead unto it, and that to them: "Can these dry bones live?" Sin lies very much in the gratifying of the body, and humouring that. The first of these phrases, "from faith," excludes the law; the second, "to faith," includes every one that has faith within the scope of God's righteousness. Of these only a remnant would be saved. "What shall we then say that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? The eleventh and final episode of the season, titled 'The Last Dance,' opens with a flash-forward to Tripp DeWitt arriving at Albie Roman's concert with the police. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. O that the veil which parts our souls from him that dwelleth between the cherubims could be torn throughout its utmost length! It is delicious, and you won't die. A man came to Christ as an individual in the early Church, often leaving his family behind. In general, we are dead to sin, that is, in profession and in obligation. "Not so," replies the apostle. If I have brought you under the first head of my discourse to a sufficient height; you can now take another step, and mount to something higher; I do not mean higher as to real value, but higher as a matter of knowledge, because it follows upon the fact as a matter of experience. 6:1-11 What, then, shall we infer? The Christian must be constantly aware that his baptism not only brought about the forgiveness of his past sins but also it set the course for the remainder of his life. Paul would have said that it ought to make all the difference in the world. 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. The flesh is hostile to Gods law and will not submit to it (Isaiah 64:6; Romans 8:7-8). 132.]. Our master becomes God and we gratefully rid ourselves of Satan and his evil ways. The motives or arguments here used to show the necessity of sanctification. We are dead to sin by a participation of virtue and power for the killing of it, and by our union with Christ and interest in him, in and by whom it is killed. We were baptized eis Christon--unto Christ, as 1 Corinthians 10:2, eis Mosen--unto Moses. [1.] As He has made all, so He is heir of all. For the end of those things is death. In the text we see death, resurrection, life, and life eternal. When a man gives his life to Christ, he does not then become a perfect man; the struggle is by no means over. THE FACTS REFERRED TO IN THESE FOUR VERSES CONSTITUE THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL WHICH WE PREACH. Accordingly we do not hear of salvation as such in Romans 3:1-31. At the present time Christians are living with Christ (Colossians 3:1-2). Paul says the Christian is to reckon (logi/zesqe) himself to be dead indeed unto sin. Next, he enters upon another branch of the truth the Spirit not as a condition contrasted with flesh (these two, as we know, being always contrasted in Scripture), but as a power, a divine person that dwells in and bears His witness to the believer. Up until verse 11 Paul was teaching the doctrine of where we stand, not really the practical application. This was no question of legal obedience, although the law came from Jehovah. Now, if we would know to which of these families we belong, we must enquire to which of these masters we yield obedience. Come up, Ye legions of hell! "Well," huffed the usher, "you didn't get it here." It's like the fellow who said, "I would have become a preacher . And so man, through the disobedience, became a servant of Satan, that was the tragic consequence of disobedience to God, and the same is true of our lives. In Romans 14:1-23 and the beginning ofRomans 15:1-33; Romans 15:1-33 we have the delicate theme of Christian forbearance in its limits and largeness. This is all perfectly true true of a Jew as of a pagan true of any unrenewed man that never heard of a Saviour. He has been a substitute up till now; will he now throw down his vicarious character? alive unto God, through, Jesus Christ our Lord; and that either in a legal sense, as justified persons; men in a state of nature, or of "Pharisaism", think themselves alive, when they are not; but when they come under a work of the Spirit of God, they see themselves otherwise, and are convinced both of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and the insufficiency of their own righteousness to justify from it; and when they have the righteousness of Christ revealed unto them, and faith is wrought in them to look unto it, and lay hold upon it, they are in themselves, and in their own apprehensions, alive, and that "unto God", in the sight of God; and their life of faith on the righteousness of Christ, is unto the glory of God, and will be followed with an eternal life with God, to which the justifying righteousness of Christ gives them a title; and this is all through Christ, and his righteousness: or this is to be considered by them of themselves as sanctified persons, who are quickened by the Spirit of Christ, and can feel the burden of sin, see the corruption of their nature, hear the voice both of law and Gospel, breathe after spiritual things, speak the language of Canaan, walk by faith on Christ, and work and act for him; which life of faith and holiness is "unto God", to his glory and honour, and is "through Christ", and is maintained and supported by him: or they should consider themselves not only as being justified before God, and made alive by his Spirit, but as such who shall live to and with God, through Christ, for evermore; for as Christ died and rose again, and lives unto and with God for ever, so they being dead to sin through him, and being quickened together with him and by his Spirit, shall never die the second death, but shall have everlasting life. 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