Sharing is Caring

The result of resurrection with Christ       [Romans 6:1-14]                          Look at Romans 6:12-14: “Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.   For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”   Here, the word “you” (v. 12) occurs seven times in Romans 6:1-14.   Here, “you” refers to those who were baptized with Jesus, died and were resurrected with Jesus.   Here, we can think of those who were baptized into four categories: (1) Those who were baptized with the Holy Spirit and then water baptized, (2) Those who were baptized with water and then baptized ...

We who died to sin       [Romans 6:1-14]       Look at Romans 6:1-2: “What shall we say then?  Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?  May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?”  Here, we have to think the phrase “grace may increase” in terms of the second half of Romans 5:20, “… where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.”  Here, where sin increased, grace abounded more abundantly, which means grace abounded to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ (v. 21).  The Apostle Paul told the Roman church members that they should not continue to sin in order to receive more of this grace (6:1).  In other words, he was saying that we should not continue to sin more in order to receive more grace that leads to eternal life.  Paul said “May it never be!” (v. 2).  It was because we are already dead to sin (v. 2).   Look at Romans 6:3-4: “Or do you not know t...