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Paul wanted his opponents in Rome to understand that it is impossible for those who are under grace to continue in habitual sin.
Friend, if you are positionally under grace it will be impossible for you continue in habitual sin.
You will still struggle with sin as long as your person is corrupted by sin, but you will not relish SIN!
Why is it impossible for those who are under grace to continue in lifestyle of sin?
Paul gives us several reasons why believers, who are now under grace, cannot continue in habitual sin.
Reason #1: Whatever power you habitually offer yourself to reveals your true master (v.
16)
Why is it impossible for those who are under grace to continue in lifestyle of sin?
Reason #2: The message of the Gospel makes obedience inevitable (v.
17)
Repentant faith leads inevitably to obedience!
Paul’s opponents see the free and overpowering idea of grace, and because they no part in the gospel they scheme to use God’s grace as an excuse to sin.
Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace?
May it never be!
You don’t understand the totality of the message of the gospel.
Paul gives thanks to God (not to the Roman Christians by the way), but to God! Why?
Because as we shall see the salvation of these Romans believers, as it is with ourselves, was entirely a work of God.
So, rightly God is the only one who deserves our thanks.
Why does Paul thank God?
Because you who were once slaves of sin have become obedience from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were commited.
In this verse Paul expounds for us one of the most clear and wonderful statements of what it really is to become a Christian.
Paul explains for us three principles that define for us what it really means to be a Christian.
How do you know that you really are a Christian?
Principle #1: A Christian is a person who has undergone a great change.
Romans 6:17 (ESV)
17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient...
There it is!
Do you see the great change that Paul describes for the Christian?
Romans 6:17 (CSB)
17 But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed
17χάρις δὲ τῷ θεῷ
But thanks be to God
ὅτι ἦτε δοῦλοι τῆς ἁμαρτίας
that though you were slaves to sin
ὑπηκούσατε δὲ ἐκ καρδίας
(instead) you obeyed from the heart
You were slaves to sin- Imperfect tense in the Greek.
Imperfect tense illustration
Why does this matter so much?
It makes a very important theological point.
You were slaves of sin, you used to be slaves of sin.
At that time, before you were under grace, you were a different person.
You were in a different position.
You were constantly and continuously slaves to sin.
There was no spiritual life in you.
All you actions, all your words, all your thoughts were goverened by your slave master.
Romans 6:17 (ESV)
17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
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