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Romans 6
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Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we
continue in sin, that grace may abound?
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Roman 5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign
through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Shall we continue this then, so more and more
goodness may come from God?
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Remember, earlier they had slanderously accused
him teaching of this.
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin,
live any longer therein?
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He talking about two type of sin
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Those that sin = these try to do right =
All sin
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Those that sin = because they don't care
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized
into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
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He is saying here: of course not!
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We are dead to sin by our baptism into faith in
Jesus Christ and also into His death.
4 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.
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We are by His resurrection shall walk in a new
life with Christ.
5 For if we have been planted together in the
likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his
resurrection:
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"Planted together" let's
reword this so it is simpler to understand.
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For if we have grown together in the likeness of
His death, then we must also come back in the
likeness of His life.
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You might say we would be resurrection in Him.
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.
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Knowing that our old self is crucified with Him,
we would then no longer serve sin.
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Through Christ we can asked for forgiveness.
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When we sin now, you don't have to wait and asked a pastor,
you can asked The Lord for forgiveness
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
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Another way of putting this would be, once a man
is dead, he is absolved from the claims of sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we
shall also live with him:
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If we die in Christ, we shall also live in
Christ.
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead
dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
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His death that He died was for sin.
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Hebrew 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he
also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death
he might destroy him that had the power of death, that
is, the devil;
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Hebrew 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew
them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify
to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him
to an open shame.
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1 Corinthians 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave,
where is thy victory?
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but
in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
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In this death, it was for the sins for the whole
world, but in His resurrection, He lives for
God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead
indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Or, sin should not affect you or tempt you as
easily as before you chose to serve God.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body,
that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of
unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that
are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of
righteousness unto God.
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Don't let your own body and passions serve as a
vice, but dedicate yourselves to God.
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Serve God, not evil.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the
law, but under grace.
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Sin shall not rule you as you have atonement
through Jesus Christ.
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Paul is speaking here on three levels: to the
Gentiles, to the rulers of the Sanhedrin and to
Israel.
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The elect are still responsible to the law.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under
grace? God forbid.
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Of course, the answer is God forbid.
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Paul had been criticized for teaching this, just
as many identity teachers have been criticized
for teaching a second chance.
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Let's clarify this. This is absolutely no second
chance.
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You are either ignorant and therefore innocent,
or you know what's going to transpire, and if
you know right from wrong, you have no excuse
for choosing wrongly.
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Always try to do what's right. I know when we
see what's going on in the world today, it's
hard.
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Once you see what's happening in the world, it
hard to take in..we all sin...
we are to asked The Lord for forgiveness.
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?
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Are you going to be a servant of sin that brings
death, or a servant of Jesus Christ who brings
eternal life?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have
obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
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Thank God you have taken on this faith; you
believe from your heart in Jesus Christ.
18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of
righteousness.
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The servants of righteousness worship which
master?
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God, who sent His only begotten Son, Jesus
Christ, to redeem us.
19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your
flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and
to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to
righteousness unto holiness.
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Paul says I use this as an example because of
the weakness of your nature.
20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from
righteousness.
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There no righteous in you, why you're doing sin
21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?
for the end of those things is death.
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Or, what did you gain, Paul asks, by all that
sin that you are now ashamed of, because there is
no gain, only death.
22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have
your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
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Or, now free of sin, you are Holy and have
gained eternal life.
23 For the wages of sin is death; but the
gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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The old church, more or less, used this
scripture to hold people to the church, teaching
hell and damnation, and not fully explaining the
gift, the free gift of God.
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What Paul meant in these preceding chapters is
that as mortal men we would sin, but having died
with Christ in baptism or even in receiving the
baptism of the Holy Spirit, our faith holds true
when it comes from the heart, and the gift or
forgiveness is ours for the asking.
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Temptations is always with
those still in the flesh, but Paul is saying,
when you stumble, don't turn away from Christ.
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Ask Him to strengthen you; hide in His gracious
forgiveness.
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When you ask forgiveness and mean it from the
heart.
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I assure you that is what
our Saviour will do for you.
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Speaking on the third level to the elect, Paul
says a great deal here in a spiritual sense.
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There's no way that you will serve Satan in the
last days as he appears in the very future, yet
beloved, more so than ever you will have to lean
on Jesus and ask Him to strengthen you.
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Many will be deceived by Satan, as will be
covered in the 11th chapter, but there's no way
you will be deceived by Satan because you know
this man of sin will come first before Jesus
Christ returns.
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Paul means once you're raised to a higher level
of thinking, or resurrected if you would have it
so, you know these truths: who the false Christ
is, who his children are (Matthew 13, you can
identify his seed).
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Once you're aware of this, there is no way you
can be turned back again to serving that man of
sin and be deceived by him, because you know it
will surely bring you death, a spiritual death.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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