Salvation: Applied in Sanctification according to Romans 6: 7- 10 Our Death with Christ. Cont.
What are you counting on to Overcome sin?
Memorize:
Rom 6:7 For he who died has been justified from sin.
Rom 6:8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
Rom 6:9 knowing that when Christ was raised from the dead, He dies no more; death no longer has dominion over Him.
Rom 6:10 For in that He died, He died to sin once; but in that He lives, He lives to God.
Questions:
- Is verse seven just talking about our physical death as the remedy for the sin nature?
- What does it mean “we died with Christ and we shall live with Him”?
- Christ Rose never to die anymore. What is Christ’s position in relation to death now?
Introduction.
We have looked at the Old man or the old sinful nature inherited from our forbears. Our old man or our old self: This is our old selves which we inherited from Adam through our parents. What a contrast to the New Man which is what we are in Christ right now.
Our old self was nailed to the Cross with Him - CRUCIFIED.
Rom 6:6 This we know--that our old self was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our sinful nature might be deprived of its power,
We do not teach annihilation of the old nature but the annulling of its power to dominate our lives. Do we just have to keep on sinning because we are still in this body of flesh. NO BY ALL MEANS NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!. Christ not only dealt with our past sins but also the sin nature has been deprived of its power. Amen.
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Things we need to know and understand.
Rom 6:7 For he who died has been justified from sin.MKJV
Rom 6:7 The person who has died has been freed from sin. GW.
Notes
This is not just talking about future death. It is but it is referring to we who believe and know we have died with Christ to the power of the sin nature’s domination.
We have been freed from sin in our death with Christ on the Cross.
Do you know that you have the Victory now? Do you live in the freedom which Christ accomplished on the Cross of Calvary ?
Rom 6:8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
Rom 6:8 But, seeing that we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him; WNT.
Notes by Barnes
Now if we be dead with Christ - If we be dead in a manner similar to what he was; if we are made dead to sin by his work, as he was dead in the grave; see the note at Rom_6:4.
We believe - All Christians. It is an article of our faith. This does not refer to the future world so much as to the present. It becomes an article of our belief that we are to live with Christ.
That we shall also live with him - This does not refer primarily to the resurrection, and to the future state, but to the present. “We hold it as an article of our faith, that we shall be alive with Christ.” As he was raised up from death, so we shall be raised from the death of sin. As he lives, so we shall live in holiness. We are in fact raised up here, and, as it were, made alive to him. This is not confined, however, to the present life, but as Christ lives forever, so the apostle goes on to show that we shall.
Rom 6:9 knowing that when Christ was raised from the dead, He dies no more; death no longer has dominion over Him.
Barne’s Notes:
Knowing - As we all know. This is assumed as an undoubted article of belief.
Dieth no more - Will never die again. He will have occasion to make no other atonement for sin; for what he has made is sufficient for all. He is beyond the dominion of death, and will live forever, Rev_1:18, “I am he that liveth and was dead, and behold I am alive forevermore.” This is not only a consolation to the Christian, but it is an argument why he should be holy.
No more dominion - No rule; no lordship; no power. He is free from its influence; and the king of terrors cannot reach his throne; compare Heb_9:25-28; Heb_10:12.
Rom 6:10 For in that He died, He died to sin once; but in that He lives, He lives to God.
Notes by Barnes
He died unto sin - His death had respect to sin. The design of his death was to destroy sin; to make an atonement for it, and thus to put it away. As his death was designed to effect this, so it follows that Christians being baptized into his death, and having it as their object to destroy sin, should not indulge in it. The whole force of the motive; therefore, drawn from the death of Christ, is to induce Christians to forsake sin;
compare 2Co_5:15, “And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth, live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them and rose again.”
Once - ἐφάπαξ ephapax. Once only; once for all. This is an adverb denying a repetition (Schleusner), and implies that it will not be done again; compare Heb_7:27; Heb_9:12; Heb_10:10. The argument of the apostle rests much on this, that his death was once for all; that it would not be repeated.
