Wednesday, July 20, 2005

There is therefore now no condemnation

Rom 6:18 Then being made free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness.
Rom 6:19 I speak in the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you have yielded your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawless act unto lawless act, even so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness.
Rom 6:20 For when you were the slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
Rom 6:21 What fruit did you have then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Rom 6:22 But now, being made free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Rom 6:18 We have become slaves of righteousness! Slaves can’t shake away their status
of slavery. It is stuck on them!
Rom 6:19 Here, Paul is speaking to people who sin. Why do we know that? Because he
refers to them as weak in the flesh, yielding themselves as slaves to
uncleaness, lawless acts, asking them to yield their members as slaves to
righteousness unto holiness.
Rom 6:22 And now Christ has made us free from sin, we already have our fruit to
holiness! To everlasting life!
Why? Because it was the gift of God! Gifts are free! This gift is eternal life!
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Rom 7:1 Or are you ignorant, brothers; for I speak to those who know the Law; that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?
Rom 7:2 For the married woman was bound by law to the living husband. But if the husband is dead, she is set free from the law of her husband.
Rom 7:3 So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress by becoming another man's wife.
Rom 7:4 So, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ so that you should be married to Another, even to Him raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.
Rom 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sin worked in our members through the law to bring forth fruit to death.
Rom 7:6 But now we having been set free from the Law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

Rom 7:2 Here the married woman is the church. And we and all were bound by His law. So, to free us from this law, our Husband had to die.
Rom 7:3 I see the marrying of another man here as disobedience to God. We marry other husbands like sins, lust, etc.
But if our Husband dies, we are no adulteress even when we become another man’s wife! Even if we sin!
Rom 7:4 And this is how Christ brought about our death to the law, by His body! So that we might be married to Another – the Risen Christ! Why? To sin? No!
Rom 7:5 To bring forth fruit to God! What is this fruit? Romans 6:22 says that it is fruit to holiness! Everlasting life!
Rom 7:6 And now we serve in newness/renewal of spirit, not oldness of the Law!
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Rom 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Let it not be said! But I did not know sin except through the law. For also I did not know lust except the law said, You shall not lust.
Rom 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of lust. For apart from law sin was dead.
Rom 7:9 For I was alive without the law once. But when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Rom 7:10 And the commandment, which was to life, was found to be death to me.
Rom 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.
Rom 7:12 So indeed the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.
Rom 7:13 Then has that which is good become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear to be sin, working death in me by that which is good; in order that sin might become exceedingly sinful by the commandment.

Rom 7:7 Here goes on to answer what most people are thinking right now – so you can sin all you like and still go to heaven/not be called adulteress/attain the fruit of God?! What shall we say then?
From what’s written, it’s quite self explanatory. The Law was not sin, but it gave the knowledge of what was right and wrong, like the apple adam ate. That sin took advantage of the Law which is holy and good.
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Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Rom 7:15 For that which I do, I know not. For what I desire, that I do not do; but what I hate, that I do.
Rom 7:16 If then I do that which I do not desire, I consent to the law that it is good.
Rom 7:17 But now it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
Rom 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I do not find.
Rom 7:19 For I do not do the good that I desire; but the evil which I do not will, that I do.
Rom 7:20 But if I do what I do not desire, it is no more I working it out, but sin dwelling in me.
Rom 7:21 I find then a law: when I will to do the right, evil is present with me.
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man;
Rom 7:23 but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin being in my members.
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then with the mind I myself serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

Rom 7:14 For the Law is spiritual, but it is our flesh and nature that is carnal, that even when in our inner man, our spirit, we do not wish to sin against God, but sin has always dwelled within us! Remember we were born sinners for this reason. Through the knowledge of good and evil, sin was born in us!
Rom 7:20 And though we will to do good, we do evil, the workings of this sin dwelling within us!

Rom 7:25 Who shall deliver us then? Save us from our own bodies? Jesus Christ!

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Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 But the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh;
Rom 8:4 so that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Finally the conclusion? There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit!

We that believe in Jesus are no longer condemned! And how do we walk in the Spirit? There is no how! It is our inheritance! We are in Christ Jesus, and we walk in the Spirit!
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