Romans 6-8 Bible Study
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Romans 6
Romans 6
What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase? Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.
Here Paul says that we don’t continue to trespass against Gods Law because we have grace, but that we should no longer live in sin. We should live a life according to Gods commandments because we are dead to sin. When we get baptized as we said this Sabbath, we are baptized into death and raised in the newness of life, we kill that flesh, we enter into the covenant with The Most High God. Colossians 2:11-12
In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands. And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
When we God through this, we have to have faith in the Power of God, How can you say that you have faith in the power of God, but do not believe that God is powerful enough to change you? Matthew 7:16-20
By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, by their fruit you will recognize them.
We are known by our fruit the holy spirit changes who you are the power of God changes who you are, that appeal to God for the Holy Spirit really changes something within you.
You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.
The Apostle John here tells us that what is in us is greater than that which is in the world. We have to know and believe this.
That which is in you doesn't mean you, it does mean that you are smart (ECT)
it means that the Spirit of God, The Holy Spirit that is in you is greater than the Spirit of Satan the spirit of the world.
And do you know a big problem that we have today?
The Believers do not act like this. You know there are real witches that will abstain from any food but blood for months, but will you even fast for 3 days? People will commit their whole lives and lose their family to do the will of Satan, but are you willing to do the same for the Glory of God? If you wouldnt ask yourself what is in you and are you grieving the Holy Spirit.
For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection. We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. For anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
Here we see Paul setting the stage for the next 3 chapters, the main point, the premise. When we come to Christ our Flesh must die and we must become something new, we must be born again.
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”
Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
“How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit. Do not be amazed that I said, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
We cannot enter into the kingdom of Heaven unless we are born again that flesh has to die.
For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.
We have to be baptized of water and of the Spirit. We must die and be something new. We don’t need to find ourselves; we need to let go of ourselves so that we can find who we are supposed to be in Christ. We have to die so that we can be born again as Sons of God.
When we say born again what do we mean? This to me is a point of confusion and it leads to a false , lawless Gospel. We don’t need to be born again so that we can live how we lived before but so that we can live to God, we should want to live according to the commandments of God, outside of this why would we believe in the God of The Bible? If his judgements and rules and regulations are not the fullness of what is holy and righteous and just then we shouldn't follow him. We are born again not to be freed from the commandments of God, but to be freed from the flesh and free to keep the commandments of God, this is our Goal.
We were slaves to sin and that is what the Messiah came to free us from.
She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
Christ came not to only save us from the punishment of sin death, but to also save us from the sin itself.
Now we have to answer another question that is pertinent What is sin?
Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.
What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
The new testament give us a very clear definition of sin. Not in one place, but in 3 places from 3 different writers who all tell us the same story, that the law of God is what defines sin and if you practice things that are against the laws of God then you are lawless, and if you know that God does not want you to do something but you do it anyway then you are in sin. It also doesn't separate the laws of God, back again to explaining our Pronomian Position. We are pro all of Gods law Sabbath, Dietary laws, although they are some of the least we don’t just throw them away.
We have to die to all sin so that we can be raised in the newness of life and walk our lives in full submission to God.
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him. The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God. So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires. Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
Paul says that we have died to sin so that we can be raised a new in Christ. Not dead the law but dead to sin , but alive to God. We are born again to do the things of God. The Dominion of Sin is gone because your flesh is dead. If you remain the Christ you will not practice sin.
He explains that Christ we he died he ended death and sin once and for all for those who believe in him, but why because Christ lived his whole life to God.
If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:
“He committed no sin,
and no deceit was found in His mouth.”
So the same as Christ Lived to God, we should live to God, Christ did not sin so after we are born again we should seek to emulate that path. We live as he lived and you will hear me say that a lot because that is our faith, put down to the most simple of terms that we can we have faith in christ that he is the son of God, that he died and raise from the dead for the forgiveness of sins and that we should walk as he walked.
We cannot let sin have a part in out lived we must kick it out completely. We have to change everything about our lives that was against God this is why we get baptized and this is why we appeal to God for the Holy Spirit so we can live this way.
Nothing in your body should be used to do sin. Everything that you have should be used to be good, you hands and feet need to become the hands and feet of christ, praying for the sick, healing the broken hearted, l helping the poor, helping the widows and the orphans.
But when we use our mouths to gossip, when we use our hands to get drunk, when we use our mouths to be gluttons, when we use our feet to go and do evil, when we use our minds to think of wickedness to do we are using them for evil we place ourselves outside of Christ.
We present ourselves as the sacrifice, our bodies as the sacrifice, our minds as the sacrifice. Romans 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
We have to make sure that we are following this verse this is your sacrifice.
Paul says that sin is not your master because you are not under the law. Now the question again is what law? A lot of time we see Paul saw law and we assume he means what Moses wrote. Here the common interpretation is that we have been freed from Gods law so we no longer have to follow his rules, but from what we have read and went over so far does the theme seem to be that we need or should want to be freed from Gods law or from sin ?
The answer of course is sin, so now what does Paul mean here when he says you are no longer under the law?
It ties two themes together that exist within the bible and are called law. one being the sacrificial system that is governed by the levites and the Sanhedrin.
it is the rulership and condemnation that comes from breaking the law. The levitical priesthood is added because of transgression as Paul tells us in Galatians 3:19-20
Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator. A mediator is unnecessary, however, for only one party; but God is one.
and the writer of Hebrews also shows us this same theme In Hebrews 7:11-28
Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on this basis the people received the law), why was there still need for another priest to appear—one in the order of Melchizedek and not in the order of Aaron? For when the priesthood is changed, the law must be changed as well.
He of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar. For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, a tribe as to which Moses said nothing about priests.
And this point is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears, one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life. For it is testified:
“You are a priest forever
in the order of Melchizedek.”
So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
And none of this happened without an oath. For others became priests without an oath, but Jesus became a priest with an oath by the One who said to Him:
“The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind:
‘You are a priest forever.’ ”
Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
Now there have been many other priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office. But because Jesus lives forever, He has a permanent priesthood. Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
Such a high priest truly befits us—One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; He sacrificed for sin once for all when He offered up Himself. For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.
The fault in the law here is not with God and he rules and regulations, but in man, that the sacrifices of bull and Goats and rams cannot change a mans heart, but Christ can. The Priesthood or the administration of the law has changed, now rather than having to offer sacfrices to the levites and obey the Sanhedrin we offer safcrices to our High Priest Jesus Christ and we listen to his rules and regulations as given in the Torah and the Gospels as well as what we have that expounds on this in the rest of the old and New Testament but there is no man that can condemn me to hell or make me follow is rules, no man that can accept or deny my sacrifices.
and the writer of Hebrews continues and says Hebrews 10:1-18
For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.
Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said:
“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,
but a body You prepared for Me.
In burnt offerings and sin offerings
You took no delight.
Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll:
I have come to do Your will, O God.’ ”
In the passage above He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them” (although they are offered according to the law). Then He adds, “Here I am, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God. Since that time, He waits for His enemies to be made a footstool for His feet, because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First He says:
“This is the covenant I will make with them
after those days, declares the Lord.
I will put My laws in their hearts
and inscribe them on their minds.”
Then He adds:
“Their sins and lawless acts
I will remember no more.”
And where these have been forgiven, an offering for sin is no longer needed.
Notice how the writer is using these terms interchangeably Law and Offering for sin . God wants you and your heart to change doesn't want the blood of animals, so what the blood of animals couldn't do not only and taking away sins but in changing your heart the Son of God Jesus Christ did when he once and for all made that sacrifice for sin.
For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
This could not and cannot take away your sins. This is the law that we are no longer under, when you sin now you don't need top go before the Sanhedrin you don't need to offer a bull or Goat or ram or anything else but you simply need to go to christ to ask for forgiveness to turn from that sin offer yourself as the sacrifice and receive that grace. That is the law that we are no longer under the sacrifices.
He continues in the next verse.
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not! Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness. What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Paul finishes that thought here when he say that we do not sin which is transgression of the law because we are not under the law. We don't sin more because we don't have to go and offer sacrifices.
He compares it to slavery as he has been this whole chapter and he says that you are slaves tomorrow what you obey and you can be a slave to sin or a slave to God, that's your choice. You can obey God or the devil that your choice, you can be of the world or of God that your choice
But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
The Same thing that Joshua Present before you then I preset before you now.
Paul then makes a direct quote from the Old testament Deuteronomy 30:15-20
See, I have set before you today life and goodness, as well as death and disaster. For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live, and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
God says the same as Paul that he set before the Israelites life and death, the life is in the commandments and the death in in disobedience. Paul is by no means saying that we no longer should follow the laws of God but that we no longer need a school master.
When I was young my mother told me to do this or that and I would do it not because I wanted to or because I thought it was Good, but because I feared my mother, I didn't want a whooping. That was the sacrificial system there was a right now punishment for the sin. but now that I am grown I understand that my mother is wise and what she says is good for me and that it will help me in life if I listen to her, the same is us now we don't look and say
