Romans 6:12-14 "Sin Shall Not Be Your Master"

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I am using the Pastor's titles for these posts. The appropriate links are:

• Audio file
• Note sheet

The text:

(NET) Romans 6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires, 13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments¹⁰ to be used for unrighteousness,¹¹ but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments¹² to be used for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

Notes:

¹⁰ tn Or “weapons, tools.”
¹¹ tn Or “wickedness, injustice.”
¹² tn Or “weapons, tools.”

Biblical Studies Press. (2006; 2006). The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible. Biblical Studies Press.

My Comments: This section was also included in the last post - see notes there as well.

Study Notes:

• What has God done to equip us to live as His people?
  
  • He sent His Son—to purchase our forgiveness by His blood. (Romans 3)
  • He (in the cross) has changed our deepest “identity.” (Romans 6)
  • He gives us Himself — His Spirit — for the ability to live by that identity. (Romans 8)
  
  
• This is because Jesus promised his followers that we would be more than believers:
  

  John 14:20 You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.
  

  
  
• So, we must
  
  • Know:
    
    • God’s (spiritual) truth that we are “united with Him”; we were “baptized into” Christ Jesus Himself
    • “our old self” (man) = “dead”; “our body of sin” is brought to powerlessness
    • Christ died to end the rule of death and sin; we are “in” Him—(in His death and resurrection
    
    
  
  
  
  
  • "Count ourselves":
    
    • to be dead to the rule and power of sin
    • to no longer be under slavery to sin
    • to be “alive to God”—having new life—in His eternal life

    We “count” as true for ourselves—on the basis of what God has done for us in Christ.
    

    
    
  • do not offer: I can now choose to “not let sin reign” in my life. (I have new ability because of what God has done.)
  
  




• So, God has accomplished the essential work to change
  
  • our position before Him,
  • our identity as His children and
  • our ability to live in His daily grace.
  
  

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