Romans

The Letter from Yeshua's Emissary Sha’ul(Paul) to the Messianic Community in Rome

Chapter 6 - (CJB)*

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Chapter 6:1-23 (CJB)

1. So then, are we to say, “Let’s keep on sinning, so that there can be more grace”?

2. Heaven forbid! How can we, who have died to sin, still live in it?

3. Don’t you know that those of us who have been immersed into the Messiah Yeshua have been immersed into his death?

4. Through immersion into his death we were buried with him; so that just as, through the glory of the Father, the Messiah was raised from the dead, likewise we too might live a new life.

5. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

6. We know that our old self was put to death on the execution-stake with him, so that the entire body of our sinful propensities might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.

7. For someone who has died has been cleared from sin.

8. Now since we died with the Messiah, we trust that we will also live with him.

9. We know that the Messiah has been raised from the dead, never to die again; death has no authority over him.

10. For his death was a unique event that need not be repeated; but his life, he keeps on living for God.

11. In the same way, consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive for God, by your union with the Messiah Yeshua.

12. Therefore, do not let sin rule in your mortal bodies, so that it makes you obey its desires;

13. and do not offer any part of yourselves to sin as an instrument for wickedness. On the contrary, offer yourselves to God as people alive from the dead, and your various parts to God as instruments for righteousness.

14. For sin will not have authority over you; because you are not under legalism but under grace.

15. Therefore, what conclusion should we reach? “Let’s go on sinning, because we’re not under legalism but under grace”? Heaven forbid!

16. Don’t you know that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, then, of the one whom you are obeying, you are slaves — whether of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to being made righteous?

17. By God’s grace, you, who were once slaves to sin, obeyed from your heart the pattern of teaching to which you were exposed;

18. and after you had been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

19. (I am using popular language because your human nature is so weak.) For just as you used to offer your various parts as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led to more lawlessness; so now offer your various parts as slaves to righteousness, which leads to being made holy, set apart for God.

20. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in relationship to righteousness;

21. but what benefit did you derive from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end result of those things was death.

22. However, now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you do get the benefit — it consists in being made holy, set apart for God, and its end result is eternal life.

23. For what one earns from sin is death; but eternal life is what one receives as a free gift from God, in union with the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord.

Study - Chapter 6

Ch 6: verses, 1-2,

Here, Paul is answering a question that it seems people were throwing back at him. So, he draws this picture of "life under Sin" and Life in Christ".

In the prevoius verses ( Chapter 5), he is showing of the act of "sinning" emphasizes the "The Grace of God". God gives Grace because we do not deserve it. So, the 'greater' the sinning, the "Greater" the "Grace". It seems that people were saying that Paul was saying that "we should go on Sinning so more "Grace could be shown".

NO! Says Paul. So, he goes on explaining in the following verses how if we have died to 'Sin' then we should not continue go on 'sinning'. [Note: - I have use a capital "S" for Sin, {the Sin that Adam commited which mkes us all Sinners}, and a lower case 's' for the acting of sinning because we are Sinners in that we draw our Life from Adam when we are born, naturally.

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Ch 6: verses, 3-11,

In these next several verses Paul is explaining the 'Mystery' of "The New Birth". This is important because he is going to expain in later chapters just how we can live a "Sinless Life".

Paul talks about us "who have been immersed into the Messiah Yeshua", in Verse 3, that is when we have received the "Life of Christ", been 'Born Again', 'Saved', these are terms that are use to express what has happened to us when make a public confession that Jesus is our Lord and Saviour.

"{immersed into the Messiah Yeshua}", Baptised into 'The Christ', 'The Annointed One", who is 'Jesus', and this spiritual act that happens in Salvation. We acknowledge this fact when we are Baptised in water.
[At the time Paul is speaking a New Convert, one who had made the decision to accept Jesus Christ as thier Saviour, they was baptised in water almost imemdiately, if not very close to their conversion.]

Paul continues on the unpack this Truth. Now when we acknowledge that we have 'died', we are acknowledging that our Adamic Nature, the life we get from Adam at birth, has been removed. Put simply when the Adamic spirit (life) leaves, we as a person die. But miraculously in a instant the Life of Christ, 'His Spirit' comes in and takes it place we are "Born Again", literally born to be a 'New Creation'.

Since you are "dead to Sin", it has no power over you. So, you can continuing living without Sin. The 'New Life in Christ' gives you the power not give in the the 'old' way of life and not let 'Sin' have any dominion over you.

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Ch 6: verses, 12-23,

Now Paul continues on to explain the depth of this Truth. The power Sin has been dealt a death blow. You have the Power over Sin so it does not have to control you.

When you start out living this 'New Life', you find the experiance somewhat differant. Paul goes on the explain how you deal with living each day with this 'New Way of Living'.

So, how do you go about this 'New way of Living'? To condense what Paul is saying in the following verses, 14 through to 23, let set it out like this.

Look at Verse 14, "For sin will not have authority over you; because you are not under legalism but under grace." The 'power of Sin' has no authority to make you sin because, you are no longer under The Law {The Law of Sin}.

Since you are not 'Under The Law of Sin', you can go on sinning because it does not have any power over you. Paul says NO! Why are you allowing yourself to be caught up in something that you have the Power to resist?

True, when you sin and sin "Big" more Grace is available to help you back to where you should be. But this should not be your objective. This expactly what Paul was being accuesd of. That we can sin lots so more Grace can be given.

Although you are under Grace when you sin and the 'Law of Sin' has no power over you, that is, you are still 'Saved', that sin has consequences which will hurt you. So, it is better to recognise it as sin, and declare that the power of 'Sin' can not affect you. The answer to when we see sin happening in our "your various parts" Verse 19, speak to yourself that you are Righteous through the Grace of God.

The Power of Grace is that when you recognise an attitude, a feeling, something that is from the 'old self', you speak to that sin, and say, "I am not longer under your power. Declare this " I am Righteous in Christ Jesus" because of His Grace.

Focusing on the fact that the "New Life of Christ" is now your true self then the power of that 'old self', looses it's hold.

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