THE BOOK OF ROMANS 6:10-23 | DEAD UNTO SIN BUT ALIVE UNTO GOD

Mike Balloun teaches today. 10/24/20.

THE BOOK OF ROMANS 6:10-23
DEAD UNTO SIN BUT ALIVE UNTO GOD

VERSES: Galatians 5:19-21, 6:8; Matthew 17:5; Hebrews 6:8, 12:14; Exodus 12:15,19

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“For in that He died, He died unto sin once for all; but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God.” Paul declares that Jesus Christ died on the Cross. He was born the Son of God/the Son of Man, His mother being under the Curse of Adam’s sin. He being born of the flesh of His mother, was subject to the flesh and physical death although He was sinless Himself throughout His life under the Law of Moses (winning the right to eternal life by keeping the Law). The fact that He was incarnate, born condemned to death without sin, in itself was unjust. But it was all in answer to God’s great graciousness on mankind, and Christ’s great willing sacrifice of Himself in the Father, having imputed Him our sin on the Cross. “For in that (purpose) He died…” and sin once laid upon Him; He died. He thereby put sin away, satisfying God’s just holiness for Adam’s sin with its death sentence for (and on) all mankind. Jesus, as the Last Adam, died not only for our sin; but to sin and death…in that “...death hath no more dominion over him” because “…in that He liveth…” His life is now resurrected from among the condemned dead, that which has established by proof His perfection in living according to God’s Law given to Man. Followed then by obediently dying in an undeserved death; and as living now in the Father’s Glorious Resurrected Life that has dismissed Him from any further jurisdiction of condemning Law forever, in that now “...He liveth unto God forever.” So it is that those earlier verses in chapter 6 are proofed up... in that it was Christ Who Died to sin and we also died with Him to sin.

VERSE 11 “Likewise So then (now comes the Holy Spirit’s directive to us who have died to sin with Christ) do ye also reckon yourselves (as the Law of Moses had no such provision), to be dead indeed unto sin (on the one hand), but alive unto God (on the other hand) through in Jesus Christ our Lord (in relating and resembling Christ in living in the identity of the New Man). So as we reckon (regard) ourselves dead to sin with Christ, so now also we should reckon ourselves in the same bearing (posture) in Christ unto a walk of holiness. (Simply put, we identify with His death but then we should identify with His walk of Holiness.)

Now to reckon (reckon being an accounting term in the Greek) oneself dead is a far cry from being dead to sin. Christ IS dead to sin. And our spirit is dead to sin, in that it has the gift of the divine nature of God and eternal life. But our Old Man’s body and soul is but crucified, having been hung on the Cross with Christ and yet still alive to sin….(the Old Man’s hands and feet being nailed on the cross, yet he is only disabled-not dead). But God assures us that the Old Man will die and we will finally be free of sin and death (in the resurrection). Now this reckoning answers to faith and hope. In that it was unbelief in God’s Word that brought sin and death upon man, and it is by belief in God’s Word that man shall finally be dead to sin. We believe/have faith in what? We (our body and soul) have emblematically died and have been buried with Christ, as we have experienced, without the seeing of it, actually the spirit’s awakening in newness of life and God’s setting it against the Old Man/sin nature while it is still alive. The calling of the Old Man is to obey the lusts of the flesh, answered by our obedience. Now we must follow the spirit in belief of God’s overcoming Word, not the carnal influence of the Old Man on our body and soul. The Scripture is not “I am dead, or be you dead” but reckon/account/consider yourselves “…dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God…” This is the calling to every Christian to the spiritual life in assuming the attitude of Christ towards sin and service unto God. That is the high calling of the glory of the Father unto the promised position with Christ, to be actually attained by true believers realized in the soul and body only at the First resurrection.

“....in Christ Jesus our Lord.” This is the first mention of ...‘in Christ’ ...and it is only brought forward after the understanding imparted in the previous doctrines. Those being particularly the death, burial and resurrection of Christ and our relation to Him in them; as they signify justification, sanctification, and glorification. Culminating in this statement of in Christ, we as justified believers, have the divine nature and are now aided in obedience to our new Master. We obedient Christians have been baptized into....

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