Romans 67

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Romans 6-7
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• 1 WHAT shall we then say? Shall we continue in
  sin that grace may abound?
• 2 Far be it. How shall we who are dead to sin
  continue to live in it?
• 3 Do you not know that those of us who have been
  baptized into Jesus Christ have been baptized
  into his death?
• 4 Therefore, we are buried with him by baptism
  into death, so that as Jesus Christ rose from the
  dead by the glory of his Father, even so we also
  shall walk in a new life.
• 5 For if we have been planted together with him
  in the likeness of his death, so shall we be also
  in the likeness of his resurrection
• 6 For we know that our old selves are crucified
  with him, so that the sinful body might be
  destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve
  sin.
• 7 For he who is dead is freed from sin. (If sin
  has a hold on you and the effect of sin has taken
  its toll, you are still alive. Your old-self
  and your new-self cannot live together. Only
  one will rule.)

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• 8 Now if we are dead with Christ, let us believe
  that we shall also live with Christ.
• 9 We know that Christ rose from the dead, and
  dies no more and that death has no more dominion
  over him.
• 10 For in dying he died once to sin and in
  living he lives to God.
• 11 Likewise, you also must consider yourself as
  being dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus
  Christ our Lord.
• 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal
  body, that you should obey it in the lusts
  thereof.
• 13 Neither should you yield your members as
  instruments of iniquity to sin but yield
  yourselves to God, just as if you were men who
  had risen from among the dead, and let your
  members be instruments of righteousness to God.
  -(We are to live our lives as if we would if we
  were living in heaven.)

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Rom 614-15

• 14 Sin shall not have dominion over you for you
  are no longer under the law, but under grace.
• 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not
  under the law but under grace? Far be it.
• What does no longer under the law mean?

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First Things First

• We have to find out which law is being
  referenced here.
• The Law of God
• The Law of Sin and Death
• The Oral Law of the religious leaders

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Then

• We have to find out what Under the Law means.
• What does it mean to be under an umbrella?
• Protection from the elements.

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First Meaning

• What does it mean to live under the United States
  Constitution?
• To be subject to its laws
• To be Above the Law means that
• you are not subject to the law at all.
• So, the first interpretation of Under the Law
  is the simple fact that if you were born a Jew,
  you were born under the umbrella and
  jurisdiction of the Law of Moses and were subject
  to its decrees just as if you are a citizen of
  the US, you are under US law.

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Second Meaning

• If you were to do something wrong and find
  yourself guilty in a court of law, what would it
  mean to be under the law then?
• To be under the law in this sense is to be
  under the penalty of the law that you broke.
• Being under the umbrella of the law is one thing.
  To be under its wrath is a whole different
  story.

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What The Law Does

• When a preacher at a wedding says, By the power
  invested in me by the state of Missouri, I now
  pronounce you man and wife, what power is he
  referring to?
• The Law! And in this case, the law gives
  blessing.
• When a judge says, By the power that has been
  invested in me by the United States of America, I
  sentence you to life in prison for such and such
  an act as you have been found guilty by a jury of
  your peers
• What again is the power?
• The Law. And what does the law bring this time?
  A curse
• And where does the power of the law come from?
• The one who wrote it.

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• The Law of God only defines what sin is and
  PRONOUNCES blessings and curses. It IS the
  judge. I John 34 Whosoever committeth sin
  transgresseth also the law for sin is the
  transgression of the law.
• The Law is a matter of fact. A law has no
  ability to make exceptions.
• If you do this, this will happen.

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From Then Until Now

• The Law in ANY culture can only do three things
  
• Define what is right or wrong in that society.
• Pronounce a blessing
• Pronounce a curse or a penalty for breaking it.
• Deut. 1126 Behold, I set before you this day
  a blessing and a curse 27 A blessing, if ye
  obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which
  I command you this day28 And a curse, if ye
  will not obey the commandments of the LORD your
  God

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• If the most common interpretation of you are no
  longer under the law is that we are no longer
  responsible to keep the Law of God, then this
  verse and others make no sense at all.
• for you no longer responsible to keep the law,
  but are under grace.
• What was the purpose of the law again?
• To define sin.
• Ro 320 Therefore by the deeds of the law there
  shall no flesh be justified in his sight for by
  the law is the knowledge of sin.

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So Far, We Have Learned

• We must determine through the context which law
  is being referenced.
• Then we must determine if the author is talking
  about just being subject to the law or is he
  talking about being under the penalty of the law.
• The laws job is to define sin and pronounce
  judgment. That is the letter of the law. It
  knows nothing else.

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Under the Law of Sin and Death

• Sometimes it is difficult to determine if it the
  law of sin and death or if it is under the
  penalty of the law of God that is being
  discussed.
• The reason is because they are so connected. If
  you break the law of God and fall under its
  penalty, it is BECAUSE you were under the law of
  sin.

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Bottom Line

• Sin is the breaking of Gods Law
• Ever since Adam sinned by breaking the first
  commandment God gave, a new law entered into the
  world
• The Law of Sin and Death
• Gen. 216 And the LORD God commanded the man,
  saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may
  freely eat
• 17 "but of the tree of the knowledge of good and
  evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you
  eat of it you shall surely die.
• From this point on, all mankind would be born
  under the law of sin, which by default brings
  death.

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This is THE Problem

• We cannot do ANYTHING about it because ALL have
  sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God.
  Rom. 323 and The wages of sin is DEATHRom.
  623.
• Adams sin had never been paid for! The
  sacrificial system was only a patch.
• Something had to be done!

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This Is THE Answer

• There are two parts to the Law of sin and
  death
• 1. Sin and 2. Death
• God sent His Son to destroy the second
  part-DEATH.
• He came to destroy the PENALTY that we all
  deserve and redeem us from the curse of Adam for
  all those that believe (trust and obey).
• Why do we still sin? Because we are still in
  part under the law of sin.
• We are still under the umbrella of sin. It
  just does not have any power over those who have
  died. (67 For he who has died has been freed
  from sin.)
• This is the point of living according to the
  Spiritto put to death the deeds of the flesh.
  (Rom. 813)

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FINALLY!

• Now what does Rom. 614-15 mean?
• 14 Sin shall not have dominion over you for you
  are no longer under the law, but under grace. 15
  What then? Shall we sin because we are not under
  the law but under grace? Far be it.

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• 16 Dont you know that when you offer yourselves
  to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves
  to the one whom you obey whether you are slaves
  to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience,
  which leads to righteousness?
• 17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to
  be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the
  form of teaching to which you were entrusted.
• 18 You have been set free from sin and have
  become slaves to righteousness.
• 19 I put this in human terms because you are
  weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to
  offer the parts of your body in slavery to
  impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so
  now offer them in slavery to righteousness
  leading to holiness.
• 20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free
  from the control of righteousness.
• 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from
  the things you are now ashamed of? Those things
  result in death!
• 22 But now that you have been set free from sin
  and have become slaves to God, the benefit you
  reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal
  life.

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This verse should take on a WHOLE new meaning!

• Rom. 623 For the wages of sin is death, but the
  gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
  Lord.

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Romans 71-6

• 1 DO you not know, my brethren, I speak to
  them who know the law, that the law has authority
  over a person as long as he lives?
• 2 Just as a woman is bound by the law to her
  husband as long as he lives but if her husband
  should die, she is freed from the law of her
  husband.
• 3 Thus if, while her husband is alive, she
  should be attached to another man, she becomes an
  adulteress but if her husband is dead, she is
  free from the law, so that she is not an
  adulteress though she becomes another mans wife.
• 4 Wherefore, my brethren, you also are become
  dead to the law by the body of Christ, that you
  might become anothers, even to him who arose
  from the dead, so that you may bring forth fruit
  to God.
• 5 For when we were in the flesh, the pains of
  sin, which were by the law, worked in our members
  to bring forth fruits to death.
• 6 But now we are freed from the law, being dead
  to that which had hold upon us and we should
  henceforth serve (vs.25) in newness of spirit and
  not in the oldness of the letter.

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77-9

• 7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin?
  Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what
  sin was except through the law. For I would not
  have known what coveting really was if the law
  had not said, "Do not covet.
• Paul does not want anyone to misunderstand him.
  For some even today, as in his own time, mistook
  him for saying that it is the laws fault and
  that it is somehow bad. He is simply saying that
  the law does what it was created to do define
  sin and pronounce judgment.
• 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by
  the commandment, produced in me every kind of
  covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead.
• 9 Once I was alive apart from law but when the
  commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

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• What does it mean that he was alive apart from
  the law? And how could Paul being brought up
  serving the law and as a Pharisee ever even be
  apart from it?
• He was always in the law and knew every part of
  it and was a strict observer of it. It is not as
  he just one day read the law for the first time
  and realized that he was in sin. The problem was
  that he never understood the spirituality of it.
  He, like the rest of his peers, only understood
  the law to be regarded in the outward actions.
  He did not understand the spirit of it. Nor had
  it ever entered into his heart. Therefore, he
  THOUGHT he was alive but did not realize that he
  was dead in his trespasses until he read it from
  the eyes of the spirit and not just the words or
  the letter.

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710-13

• 10 I found that the very commandment that was
  intended to bring life (if I kept it) actually
  brought death (because I broke it).
• 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by
  the commandment, deceived me, and through the
  commandment put me to death.
• 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment
  is holy, righteous and good.
• 13 Did that which is good, then, become death to
  me? By no means! But in order that sin might be
  recognized as sin, it produced death in me
  through what was good, so that through the
  commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

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714-21

• 14 We know that the law is spiritual but I am
  unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
• 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I
  want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
• 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree
  that the law is good.
• 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it,
  but it is sin living in me.
• 18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that
  is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to
  do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
• 19 For what I do is not the good I want to do
  no, the evil I do not want to dothis I keep on
  doing.
• 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is
  no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me
  that does it.
• 21 So I find this law at work When I want to do
  good, evil is right there with me.

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722-25

• 22 For in my inner being I delight in Gods law
• 23 but I see another law at work in the members
  of my body, waging war against the law of my mind
  and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at
  work within my members.
• 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me
  from this body of death?
• 25 Thanks be to Godthrough Jesus Christ our
  Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to
  Gods law, but in the sinful nature a slave to
  the law of sin.

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Romans 81-2

• 1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for
  those who are in Christ Jesus,
• 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the
  Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin
  and death.

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Chapter 319-20

• 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it
  says to those who are under the law, that every
  mouth may be stopped, and all the world may
  become guilty before God.
• 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh
  will be justified in His sight, for by the law is
  the knowledge of sin.
• You cannot be saved by just merely keeping Gods
  word. Why? Because everyone has broke His Law
  and are guilty before him. Keeping Gods Law
  does not lead to salvation. Its purpose is to
  show us and define for us exactly what sin is and
  reveal to us how to please Him.

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• they did not become more favorable to him, but
  desired he might be cast into the den of lions
  according to the law.