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In our verse by verse study of Romans last time we started Rom 6:6; where we noted that the verse reveals that retroactive positional truth is the phase of the baptism of the Holy Spirit at salvation that identifies the believer with Jesus Christ in His spiritual death on the cross, His physical death on the cross, and His burial after He was taken down from the cross and placed in the tomb.
In the spiritual death of Jesus Christ on the cross all the personal sins in human history were imputed to Jesus but at the same time the good and evil trends of the old sin nature were not imputed.
Good and evil is the policy of satan as the ruler of this world that becomes the production of the old sin nature as the ruler of human life.
Good and evil were not imputed at the cross. That means in the spiritual death of Jesus Christ on the cross they were rejected.
They were rejected to remain an issue in the angelic conflict, rejected to be perpetuated in human history as an issue that every believer must face, and either overcome through learning Bible doctrine or be trapped by ignorance of Bible doctrine that results in the believer failing to glorify God in time.
We are identified with Christ in His spiritual death that means the positional rejection of satan's policy of good and evil that is satan's and the old sin nature's function in accord with satanic policy
It means that every believer has positionally rejected satan's policy of good and evil weather they know and understand it or not. Most believer's don't so they continue to try to function on the evil "good" side of the sin nature after salvation instead recognizing that they are dead to it.
In the physical death of Jesus Christ on the cross and His subsequent burial in the tomb He was totally separated from good and evil.
Burial refers to His humanity. His physical body was placed in the tomb, His soul was in Paradise with God the Holy Spirit, and His spirit was in the presence o God the Father in heaven. There was no evil in Jesus' death.
In heaven there was no evil, in the Paradise section of Hades there was no evil, and therefore His soul was separated from evil. In His body there was not one cell with an old sin nature, and therefore separation from evil was there when His physical body was in the tomb.
We are identified with Christ in His physical death and burial that means complete positional separation from good and evil.
All believers have been positionally separated from good and evil since the day they believed in Jesus Christ. This is the implication of retroactive positional truth that must be completely understood by believers for proper thinking and application in their post salvation spiritual life.
History destroys immature believers because immature believers still experientially identify with good and evil so they get destroyed along with good and evil when God uses history to destroy good and evil.
Satan keeps on deploying this policy of good and evil, and every time he gets something going it destroys everything. Good and evil destroys people. Good and evil destroys everything.
That is what is happening the USA at this time because too many believers in the USA have adopted satan's evil policy of good and evil instead of recognizing that they are dead to it and alive to their new life.
Rom 6:6; " knowing that our old self was crucified with Him" "ginosko" (know) with the conjunction "hoti" (that). The conjunction "hoti" is sometimes used for quotation marks. It is frequently used to indicate the content of what is thought, the content of thinking, perception, and that how it is used here.
So we have " knowing this, that." Then we have the information regarding what we should know from that imperative participle. The nominative singular adjective " ho palaios" (the old with the article 'ho") it is correctly translated "the old." The article makes it monadic.
It means old in point of time, having been in existence for a long time, so it perfectly describes the old sin nature. The sin nature has been in existence since the fall of mankind.
Then the nominative singular subject from "anthropos" (man). Frequently used not only to refer to males but to refer to the entire human race or (mankind) so the NASB translates it "self"
Plus the possessive genitive plural from the personal pronoun "hemon" (our), that means it belongs to us because we possess it from birth.
The verb is translated "is crucified," is the aorist passive indicative from the verb "systaroo" (syn = with; staroo = to crucify) that means to be crucified with another so it could be translated "co-crucified."
The aorist tense is a constantive aorist, that refers to the instantaneous action of the baptism of the Holy Spirit at salvation that results in retroactive positional truth. The passive voice: the subject, the old sin nature, receives the action of the verb of being co-crucified with Christ.
The indicative mood is declarative referring to a dogmatic statement of doctrinal reality "so that the body of sin might be done away with" -the conjunction "hina" (so that) introduces a final purpose clause.
God's intended purpose, goal, or objective is "in order that" or "so that" the nominative singular subject "soma" (body), referring to the physical human body where the old sin nature resides can be destroyed.
That's why the physical body is called "the body of corruption," and that is why the physical body decomposes into dirt when the soul leaves it at physical death.
The genitive of reference is in the singular of the word "hamartia" (sin) refers to the old sin nature. The definite article "ho" (the) that is used with it denotes previous reference to the sin nature in context, plus employed as a possessive pronoun meaning "it"
"in order that the human body with specific reference to its sin nature." Plus the aorist passive subjunctive of the verb "katargeo" (done away with) means to destroy, to render useless, to render inoperative, to make powerless, or to release from an association with something or someone.
We will translate it "might be rendered inoperative or powerless." This is a culminative aorist tense that views the doctrine of retroactive positional truth in its entirety but it emphasizes it from the viewpoint of the existing results of the destruction of the ruling power of the old sin nature.
Note that the body itself is not rendered inoperative but the old sin nature that is in the body is rendered powerless. In this case the ruling power of the old sin nature is broken positionally but not experientially.
The experiential breaking of the power of the old sin nature is described in verses 11-13. The passive voice: the body as the throne room for the old sin nature receives the action of the verb of being destroyed, rendered inoperative or powerless.
The subjunctive mood is a potential subjunctive that is used with "hina" (so that) to indicate God's objective that is qualified by an element of contingency making it a potential.
The potential subjunctive implies a future reference to the perception, metabolization and application of the doctrine of retroactive positional truth.
One more word is needed here, and that is the definite article "ho" (the) in the form of a possessive genitive that is used as a possessive pronoun so the translation is "our body of sin" that refers to our sin nature. This also makes it monadic.
We see here that the fall of man resulted in two historical changes to the human race: first Satan became the ruler of the world, replacing Adam in that role; second the old sin nature came into existence as the sovereign of human life, ruling humanity through spiritual death.
The old sin nature is located in all the cells of the human body. In its location it has three trends: toward sin, human good and evil.
The personal sins of the human race were judicially imputed to Jesus Christ on the cross and judged, therefore providing eternal salvation for anyone who believes in Jesus Christ for an instant.
The other trends-good and evil-were not imputed to Christ on the cross. Good and evil must continue as the issue in the angelic conflict until the end of history that is the end of the Millennium.
The co-crucifixion of the old sin nature at the cross must be examined categorically in relation to its trends. When it says, "our old man has been crucified together with him," that means co-crucifixion.
The trend toward personal sins: All personal sins are judicially imputed to Jesus Christ on the cross, and because of this we have an instant solution to carnality by simply acknowledging our known sins to God.
The trend toward good and evil: Good and evil were not imputed to Christ on the cross so good and evil remain the issue for humanity until the great white throne judgment.
It all adds up to the fact that the sovereignty of the old sin nature over human life has been made powerless through retroactive positional truth. The imputation of all personal sins of the human race to Christ on the cross means that the believer through the function of rebound is instantly forgiven sins, cleansed from all unrighteousness, restored to fellowship and filled with the Spirit.
In other words, because all personal sins were judicially imputed to Christ on the cross and judged it is possible after salvation when we commit sins we simply name and cite these sins, and since these sins have already been judged they are instantly forgiven.
At the same time any unknown sins that have accumulated are likewise forgiven because they were also judged on the cross.
The issue of good and evil is solved by non-imputation at the cross. Good and evil is the policy of satan in his rule of this world. Sin is not a part of satan's policy; it is an embarrassment to him because he is trying to produce the conditions of the Millennium before the Second Advent of Jesus Christ.
As a part of the angelic conflict it is the race to the Millennium.
If satan could find a way to eliminate sin and to saturate the world with good and evil in his genius, this would mean defeat for the Lord Jesus Christ in the angelic conflict. But there is no way that it can occur because Satan cannot control sin in the world but his objective is to saturate the world with good and evil.
Eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil permitted good and evil to be the satanic policy and the old sin nature's function. There is no instantaneous solution, but there is a solution.
The solution has to be divided into two parts: the positional part at salvation and the experiential part in the Christian life. The positional part is accomplished for us when God the Holy Spirit enters us into union with Christ in His spiritual death, in His physical death, and in His burial.
In spiritual death good and evil have been rejected by non-imputation. They had to be non-imputed for a solution to exist. The imputation that solves the sin problem cannot be used for good and evil so in the wisdom of God they were not imputed.
Therefore in Christ's physical death and burial He was totally separated from good and evil so that positionally we have rejected good and evil, and positionally we are totally separated from good and evil.
The positional solution is the predicate for and the sine que non of the experiential solution.
Retroactive positional truth means identification with Christ in His spiritual death where we have the imputation of personal sins, His physical death and burial.
The non-imputation of good and evil at the spiritual death of Christ is the rejection of good and evil. Therefore the believer has positionally rejected good and evil, but not experientially.
Good and evil remains the policy of Satan as the ruler of the world and the function of the old sin nature as the sovereign over human life.
Identification with Christ in His physical death and burial connotes total separation from good and evil. Therefore positionally we as believer are separated from good and evil.
This verse indicates that positionally the power and the authority of the old sin nature as the sovereign of human life has been destroyed, broken, rendered inoperative, or abrogated.
The last phrase of this verse provides another result of retroactive positional truth that is freedom from enslavement to the old sin nature as the ruler of human life.