Dead to Sin, Alive to God
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Rom 6:2
God
forbid. How... or
“may it never be!” This expression is the strongest Greek idiom
for repudiating a statement and it contains a sense of outrage that
anyone would ever think the statement was true.
Gal. 2:19-20 “For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.” “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
Twenty Reasons for Not Living in Sin
1. Death to sin nullifies it (Rom. 6:2-3).
2. Resurrection from spiritual death (Rom. 6:4-5).
3. We walk in newness of life (Rom. 6:4).
4. Death to sin and resurrection from sin mean walking like Christ (Rom. 6:5; 1Pet. 2:21-22; 1Jhn. 2:6; 4:6, 4:17).
5. The old man is crucified and dead (Rom. 6:6; Eph. 4:22-24; 1Jhn. 5:18).
6. The body of sin is destroyed, that henceforth we should not sin (Rom. 6:6).
7. We are freed from sin (Rom. 6:7, 6:18, 6:22).
8. Faith counts sin dead (Rom. 6:8).
9. Sin has no dominion over us (Rom. 6:9).
10. Sin not to reign in the body (Rom. 6:12).
11. The body must not yield to sin (Rom. 6:13).
12. Married to Christ, not sin (Rom. 7:4).
13. We walk in the Spirit (Rom. 8:1-4).
14. We are made free from the law of sin (Rom. 8:2).
15. We are spiritually minded (Rom. 8:6).
16. Christ is in us, not sin (Rom. 8:10).
17. We are not debtors to sin (Rom. 8:12).
18. Spirit mortifies sin in us (Rom. 8:13).
19. We have Spirit of freedom (Rom. 8:15).
20. Intercession of Christ and the Holy Spirit keeps us (Rom. 8:26-27, 8:34).
You see, if Christ truly lives in us, we have no desire to sin any more. We no longer serve the lust of the flesh, but we follow the Spirit of God.
The apostle voiced this idea only to reject it vehemently: By no means! (mē genoito; cf. See Rom. 3:4) In no way is the abundance of God’s grace designed to encourage sin.
0 comments:
Post a Comment