Romans 6.14-The Sin Nature Is Not To Be Your Master Since You Are Under Grace

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Romans: Romans 6:14-The Sin Nature Is Not To Be Your Master Since You Are Under Grace-Lesson # 194

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Wenstrom Bible Ministries

Pastor-Teacher Bill Wenstrom

Thursday July 3, 2008

www.wenstrom.org

Romans: Romans 6:14-The Sin Nature Is Not To Be Your Master Since You Are Under Grace

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Lesson # 194

Please turn in your Bibles to Romans 6:1.

This evening we will study of Romans 6:14, in which Paul teaches the believers in Rome that the sin nature is not to be their master since they were no longer under law, but under God’s grace.

Romans 6:1-14, “What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin for he who has died is freed from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be 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 lusts and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”

Romans 6:14 “gives the reason” or the “basis for” Paul’s prohibition in Romans 6:12 and his prohibition and command in Romans 6:13.

In Romans 6:12, the apostle Paul prohibits the believers in Rome from letting the sin nature reign as king in their bodies with the result that they obey its lusts.

In Romans 6:13a, the apostle Paul prohibits the Roman believers from placing the members of their bodies at the disposal of the sin nature as instruments of unrighteousness.

Then, in Romans 6:13b, he commands the believers in Rome to place the members of their body at the disposal and benefit of the Father as instruments of righteousness.

Therefore, Paul’s statement in Romans 6:14 “gives the reason why” he prohibits the believers in Rome from letting the sin nature reign as king in their bodies with the result that they obey its lusts.

His statement in Romans 6:14 “gives the reason why” he prohibits the believers in Rome from placing the members of their body at the disposal and benefit of the sin nature as instruments, which produce unrighteousness.

Lastly, it “gives the reason why” he commands them to place the members of their body at the disposal and benefit of the Father as instruments, which produce righteousness.

Therefore, Paul prohibited the believers in Rome in Romans 6:12 from letting the sin nature reign as king in their bodies with the result that they obey its lusts “because” the sin nature will, as a certainty, never again, have dominion over the believer since they are under God’s grace and not the Law.

Also, he prohibited the believers in Rome in Romans 6:13a from placing the members of their body at the disposal and benefit of the sin nature as instruments, which produce unrighteousness “because” the sin nature will, as a certainty, never again, have dominion over them since they are under God’s grace and not the Law.

Lastly, Paul commands the believers in Rome in Romans 6:13b to place the members of their body at the disposal and benefit of the Father as instruments, which produce righteousness “because” the sin nature will as a certainty never again have dominion over them since they are under the dominion of God’s grace.

All this does not imply that the believer will never again sin but rather it promises that the believer will never again be under the tyranny of the sin nature as he was prior to being declared justified through faith in Christ.

However, it does imply that the believer is obligated to obey the prohibition in Romans 6:12 and 6:13a and the command in Romans 6:13b since they are under the dominion of Christ and God’s grace and no longer under the tyranny of the sin nature.

Romans 6:14, “For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”

“Sin” is the noun hamartia (a(martiva) (ham-ar-tee-ah), which refers to the sin nature as indicated in that the word is being personified by the verb kurieuo.

Paul is ascribing the human action of having dominion over someone as a king or tyrant to the sin nature.

“Shall not be master over” is composed of the emphatic negative adverb ou (ou)) (oo), “not” and the verb kurieuo (kurieuvw) (ko-ree-yoo-o), “shall be master over.”

The verb kurieuo means, “to be lord of, to rule over, to have dominion over.”

In Romans 6:14, the verb kurieuo speaks of the sin nature’s “dominion over” the justified sinner, which has ended since the justified sinner was identified with Christ in His crucifixion and death through the baptism of the Spirit.

The “gnomic future” tense of the verb kurieuo in Romans 6:14 emphasizes the “certainty” that the sin nature will never again “at any time” have dominion over the believer as it did prior to the believer being declared justified through faith alone in Christ alone.

The reason this is the case is the believer is now under the headship of Christ and God’s grace policy and no longer under the headship of Adam and the tyranny of the spiritual death and the sin nature.

The “gnomic future” signifies a promise to the believer that is relevant to him now at the present moment and does not pertain to a future event meaning that the sin nature will “one day in the future” no longer have dominion over the believer.

It also rules out a conditional promise meaning that if the believer stops letting the sin nature reign over him, it will no longer have dominion over him.

Furthermore, it also rules out that Paul is issuing a command meaning that sin “must no longer” have dominion over the believer.

Rather, the “gnomic future” signifies a promise that is relevant not only in the future but in the present moment since it denotes that an act is true any time.

It denotes the “certainty” that the sin nature will never again have dominion over the believer.

Romans 6:14, “For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”

The statement “for you are not under law but under grace” gives the reason why the sin nature will, as a certainty, never again have dominion over the believer.

The sin nature, will, as a certainty, never again, have dominion over the believer “because” he is no longer under the authority of the law but rather under the authority of God’s grace.

“You are” the verb eimi (ei)miv) (i-mee), which means, “to belong to a particular class of individuals.”

The word’s meaning is emphatically negated by the adverb ou.

The verb eimi and the emphatic negative adverb ou denote that the believers in Rome belong to a particular class of individuals who are not under law but under God’s grace.

“Under Law” is composed of the preposition hupo (u(pov) (hoop-o), “under” and the noun nomos (novmo$) (nom-os), “Law.”

The noun nomos refers once again to the Mosaic Law and is used in contrast with noun charis, “grace.”

This resumes the contrast between the two concepts in Romans 5:20-21, which actually served as the motivation for Paul’s teaching in Romans 6:1-14.

Paul returns to the subject of the Law since in the first half of the verse, he teaches that the sin nature, will, as a certainty, never again, have dominion over the believer.

If this is the case, then he is equally not under the dominion of the Law since it was an addendum to the sin nature in the sense that it made the sinner aware that he was a sinner by nature and that God was holy.

The Law served to condemn the sinner before a holy God, thus demonstrating his need of a Savior.

There can be no freedom from the power of the sin nature without a corresponding deliverance from the power and authority of the Law.

So if a person is under the dominion or authority of the Law, then he is not under the authority or dominion of grace and vice versa.

Paul presents the contrast again between law and grace since he also has his Jewish contemporaries in mind who erroneously taught that the law justifies the sinner.

He uses the contrast between law and grace since he wants to make clear that obedience to the Law as a way of justification is in total opposition to God’s grace policy towards sinners.

Therefore, if the sinner justified by grace through faith in Jesus Christ is no longer under the dominion of the sin nature, then likewise, he is no longer under the authority or dominion of the law and is no longer condemned by it since the law was an addendum to the sin nature so as to point out the sinner’s need for a Savior.

The preposition hupo is employed with the accusative form of the noun nomos as a marker of a controlling power.

Therefore, in Romans 6:14, Paul is teaching that the justified sinner, i.e. the Christian is no longer under the law in the sense that the law has no authority or sovereign power over him since he is now under God’s grace policy.

Romans 6:14, “For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”

“Under grace” is composed of the preposition hupo (u(pov) (hoop-o), “under” and noun charis (xavri$) (khar-ece), “grace.”

Grace is all that God is free to do in imparting unmerited blessings to those who trust in Jesus Christ as Savior based upon the merits of Christ and His death on the Cross.

It is God treating us in a manner that we don’t deserve and excludes any human works in order to acquire eternal salvation or blessing from God.

Grace means that God saved us and blessed us despite ourselves and not according to anything that we do but rather saved us and blessed us because of the merits of Christ and His work on the Cross.

It excludes any human merit in salvation and blessing (Eph. 2:8-9; Titus 3:5) and gives the Creator all the credit and the creature none.

By means of faith, we accept the grace of God, which is a non-meritorious system of perception, which is in total accord with the grace of God.

Grace and faith are totally compatible with each other and inseparable (1 Tim. 1:14) and complement one another (Rom. 4:16; Eph. 2:8).

Grace, faith and salvation are all the gift of God and totally exclude all human works and ability (Eph. 2:8-9).

The unique Person of the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work on the Cross-is the source of grace (2 Cor. 8:9) and He is a gift from the Father (2 Cor. 9:15).

Jesus Christ was full of “grace and truth” (John 1:17) and the believer receives the grace of God through Him (John 1:16).

The noun charis, “grace” is a synonym for the new relationship the sinner now eternally possesses with God as a result of being declared justified through faith alone in Christ alone.

The justified sinner is now under the dominion and authority of God and the beneficiary of unmerited benefits, which give him the capacity to obey the prohibitions in Romans 6:12 and 13a and the command in Romans 6:13b.

The preposition hupo is employed with the accusative form of the noun charis, “grace” as a marker of a controlling power indicating that the justified sinner, i.e. the Christian is now “under the dominion or authority” of God’s grace policy.

Therefore, in Romans 6:14 Paul gives the reason why the believer has the capacity or ability to obey his prohibitions in Romans 6:12 and 13a and his command in Romans 6:13b.

They have the capacity to obey the prohibition in Romans 6:12 and 13a and the command in Romans 6:13b precisely because the sin nature no longer has dominion over them!

Romans 6:14 is a promise to the believer that he is no longer under the tyranny of the sin nature and the law but rather under God’s grace.

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