Dead to Sin, Alive to God-2

Rom. 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

Then Paul explained why such a thought cannot be entertained. The fact is, Christians died to sin (cf. Rom. 6:7, 6:11). The Greek aorist (past) tense for “died” suggests a specific point when the action occurred, at salvation. Death, whether physical or spiritual, means separation, not extinction (cf. Rom. 6:6-7, Rom. 6:14). Death to sin is separation from sin’s power, not the extinction of sin. Being dead to sin means being “set free from sin” (Rom. 6:18, 6:22). That being true, Paul asked, How can they live in it any longer? Obviously believers cannot live in sin if they died to it.

Twenty Reasons for Not Living in Sin

1. Death to sin nullifies it (Rom. 6:2-3).

2. Resurrection from spiritual death (Rom. 6:4-5).

3. We walk in newness of life (Rom. 6:4).

4. Death to sin and resurrection from sin mean walking like Christ (Rom. 6:5; 1Pet. 2:21-22; 1Jn. 2:6; 4:6, 4:17).

5. The old man is crucified and dead (Rom. 6:6; Eph. 4:22-24; 1Jn. 5:18).

6. The body of sin is destroyed, that henceforth we should not sin (Rom. 6:6).

7. We are freed from sin (Rom. 6:7, 6:18, 6:22).

8. Faith counts sin dead (Rom. 6:8).

9. Sin has no dominion over us (Rom. 6:9).

10. Sin not to reign in the body (Rom. 6:12).

11. The body must not yield to sin (Rom. 6:13).

12. Married to Christ, not sin (Rom. 7:4).

13. We walk in the Spirit (Rom. 8:1-4).

14. We are made free from the law of sin (Rom. 8:2).

15. We are spiritually minded (Rom. 8:6).

16. Christ is in us, not sin (Rom. 8:10).

17. We are not debtors to sin (Rom. 8:12).

18. Spirit mortifies sin in us (Rom. 8:13).

19. We have Spirit of freedom (Rom. 8:15).

20. Intercession of Christ and the Holy Spirit keeps us (Rom. 8:26-27, 8:34).

God forbid....

γίνομαι

ginomai

ghin'-om-ahee

A prolonged and middle form of a primary verb; to cause to be (“gen” -erate), that is, (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literally, figuratively, intensively, etc.): - arise be assembled, be (come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, be done, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.

μή

mē

may

A primary particle of qualified negation (whereas no or not expresses an absolute denial); (adverbially) not, (conjugationally) lest; also (as interrogitive implying a negative answer [whereas no or not expects an affirmative one]); whether: - any, but, (that), X forbear, + God forbid, + lack, lest, neither, never, no (X wise in), none, nor, [can-] not, nothing, that not, un [-taken], without. Often used in compounds in substantially the same relations.

How...

πῶς

pōs

poce

Adverb from the base of what; an interrogitive particle of manner; in what way? (sometimes the question is indirect, how?); also as exclamation, how much!: - how, after (by) what manner (means), that. [Occasionally unexpressed in English.]

shall we, that...

ὅστις, ἥτις, ὅ,τι

hostis hētis ho,ti

hos'-tis, hay'-tis, hot'-ee

From who, which, what, that and some or any person or object; which some, that is, any that; also (definitely) which same: - X and (they), (such) as, (they) that, in that they, what (-soever), whereas ye, (they) which, who (-soever).

are dead...

ἀποθνήσκω

apothnēskō

ap-oth-nace'-ko

From off, that is, away and to die; to die off (literally or figuratively): - be dead, death, die, lie a-dying, be slain (X with).

to sin,...

ἁμαρτία

hamartia

ham-ar-tee'-ah

From to miss the mark; sin (properly abstract): - offense, sin (-ful).

live...

ζάω

zaō

dzah'-o

A primary verb; to live (literally or figuratively): - life (-time), (a-) live (-ly), quick.

any longer...

ἔτι

eti

et'-ee

Perhaps akin to a year: - year; “yet”, still (of time or degree): - after that, also, ever, (any) further, (t-) henceforth (more), hereafter, (any) longer, (any) more (-one), now, still, yet.

therein?...

ἐν

en

en

A primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), that is, a relation of rest (intermediate between to or into and from, out); “in”, at, (up-) on, by, etc.: - about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-) by (+ all means), for (. . . sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-) in (-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-) on, [open-] ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, [speedi-] ly, X that, X there (-in, -on), through (-out), (un-) to(-ward), under, when, where (-with), while, with (-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) prep.

αὐτός

autos

ow-tos'

From the particle αὖ au (perhaps akin to the base of to breathe unconsciously, to respire through the idea of a baffling wind; backward); the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the compound of him, her it, them) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons: - her, it (-self), one, the other, (mine) own, said, ([self-], the) same, ([him-, my-, thy-]) self, [your-] selves, she, that, their (-s), them ([-selves]), there [-at, -by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with], they, (these) things, this (man), those, together, very, which.

I have received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. In receiving Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior I have done that and the result is that I am born again. I am now a child of God through faith in Jesus Christ. If I am born again, then where is the old man? He is dead. That old fellow who used to live after his flesh, he is dead. I now have a new life, a spiritual life, that life from Christ. Therefore, to say, "Well, let’s go ahead and just live in sin that grace may abound," is folly. Because I am dead to sin, that old life is dead.