1. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? V. 15; 3:8
Since, the more we sin the more God’s grace grows, does this mean that we should sin even more and more so that Grace can grow in us?
2. God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
God would not allow such thoughts. How can we keep living a sinful life if we symbolically put to death the old man of sin in our baptism.
3. Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? Gal. 3:27, Col. 2:12
When we are fully submerged in the water in our baptism, we are symbolically dying with Christ at His crucifixion, who also killed sin in His death.
4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that just as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
In conclusion, we spiritually put the old man of sin in the grave. Just as God in all His glory (That is His radiant splendor or brilliance) raised up Jesus from the dead. We who died with Christ spiritually in our baptism should also walk in the spirit of righteousness. Righteousness is the only way I can describe what we should be like when we “walk in the newness of life.”
5. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Phil. 3:10
As we were spiritually buried together with Christ, (in the likeness of him), just as He rose from the dead, we to will one day be raised from the dead in spirit, as Christ is, not of the flesh.
6. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Gal. 2:20; 5:24; 6:14
Having knowledge that the old man of sin was put to death spiritually at our baptism. I say spiritually; as anyone who has been baptized knows that they will keep sinning. This is a lifetime process for us. As Christ was crucified on the cross. The sin nature we served before our baptism, which we were a slave to could be killed. Then we should no longer be a slave to sin spiritually speaking.
7. For he that is dead is freed from sin. 1 Pet. 4:1
We, who symbolically died with Christ at our baptism were freed from the death penalty (According to God’s law), of sin. As long as we go to God, confess our sins to Him, as for forgiveness and then repent. He is true and just to forgive. Rom 5:14-21; 1 John 1:9
8. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 2 Tim. 2:11
9. Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death hath no more dominion over him. Rev. 1:18
When we get baptized we believe that just as the old man of sin was spiritually put to death (As Christ killed sin in the flesh), we know also that as Christ was raised from death (Defeating sin), That we to are free from the death penalty of sin according to the law of God. And we to will be raised from the dead at the resurrection into a spirit body at that time, in the twinkling of an eye.
10. For the death that he died, he die to sin once for all; but the life that he lives he lives to God.
When Jesus died He died only once for all peoples sins, past, present and future, but now He lives with God, and sits at His right hand to this day and forever more Doing God’s will.
11. Likewise you also reckon yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. v. 2; 7:4,6
So to we should consider ourselves to be dead spiritually to the sin nature, but alive to God through the death of Jesus Christ.
12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Ps. 19:13
Do not let sin rule over your fleshly body so much so, that you become a slave to sin, and all the lustful desires of the flesh. Keep walking in that newness of life. And when you do sin, go to God and confess your sins to Him. 1 John 1:9
13. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 7:5; 12:1
Do not let your fleshly body be used to commit everything that goes against the will of God, His law and His righteousness, but offer up your body to God as a person who is alive spiritually from the death penalty of sin, and live your life according to the will of God.
14. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 10:4; Gal. 3:13; 5:18
You are not under the death penalty for your sins, according to the law of God, because, Through the kindness of God, who sent His only son to take my place for my sins, and died for my sins. Romans 5:15-21
Rom 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. v.1; 7:7
Just because God showed His kindness to us by sacrificing His only son for us, it does not give me the liberty (Freedom) to keep on sinning.
16. Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness. 2 Pet. 2:19
If you decide to obey the lusts of the flesh, and willfully keep sinning, then you are in essence a slave to sin, which will only bring death to you, but if you obey God and His Laws of then you become a slave to righteousness (Obeying God’s law), and this gives you eternal life.
17. But God be thanked that though you were the slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. 2 Tim. 1:13
–Even though I was once a slave to sin and the death penalty that it brought, I thank God that through His Spirit I now obey His laws, and I am now free from the penalty of death through my sins, past, present and future.
18. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. John. 8:32
Since I am free from the penalty of death for my sins (According to God’s law), I am now obedient to the law of God and His righteousness.
19. I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you have presented your members servants as slaves of uncleanness and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
Because of the weakness of our flesh, we had given our bodies to practice all that is unclean and sinful. In the same way we gave ourselves to sin. We should now give our life over to doing what is right according to the law of God, and become Holy; as God is holy.
20. For when you were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. v. 11; John 8:34
When I obeyed the lust of the flesh to sin, I was unable to do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
21. What fruit had you then in those things whereof you are now
ashamed? for the end of those things is death. 1:32; 7:5
Did any good come from being slaves to sin which made me ashamed of doing those things? For all those sinful things only brought me eternal death according to the law of God.
22. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Now that I am free from the death penalty of being sinful, and have become obedient servants to God, I am bearing good fruit which produces holiness and in turn gives me everlasting life.
23. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Eph. 2:8,9
According to the law of God; the penalty for sin is death eternal, but through God’s grace I have eternal life through the precious blood of Jesus Christ.