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In our verse by verse study of Romans last time we finished our Expanded Translation of Rom 6:12; "Therefore, stop permitting the sin nature to rule in your mortal body, that you should obey the same (the old sin nature) with its trends."
We noted that this is a negative imperative that positional Christianity gives us the opportunity to make, but the actual choice is made in the venue of Christian experience and function in life.
This choice is exercised in at least two ways that can be described as maturity adjustment to God's justice. There are two opportunities to make continuous choices for Jesus Christ instead of the sin nature.
One of them has to do with an instantaneous recovery from sin nature control of the soul aka carnality. All sins were imputed and judged in Jesus on the cross so that when sin and we are out of fellowship we can name our sins to God and immediately be forgiven through confession adjustment to God's justice per 1John 1:9; we use that first option by grace and doctrinal orientation combined with positive volition to the doctrine of rebound.
The second venue where a choice must be made has to do with the PMA of Bible doctrine. This is where maturity adjustment to God's justice is developed as the second use of constant positive volition to learn and use Bible Doctrine.
We must make our choice for doctrine every day so that through the function of GASP that enables us to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. Once we learn and apply the doctrine to our lives we are living in the new spiritual life so the old sin nature is no longer in continuous control of our experiential life.
These are the only two things that the believer can do that the unbeliever can't do. Spirituality is how and why believers do what they do. Unbelievers are never spiritual so while they may do what believer do they never do it in the right way or for the right reason.
While rebound and use of God's GASP system are the principles their function requires the utilization of logistical grace that includes rebound, the filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit and the daily function of GASP or consistent positive volition toward Bible doctrine.
Without logistical grace the execution of God's commands would be impossible so we have to recognize that logistical grace is what makes experiential victory over the old sin nature possible.
Rom 6:13; "But not " is the negative disjunctive particle "mhde" (but not), used for the continuation of a preceding negative. In other words, the negative comes from the first word in verse 12 where we had the command "me" (not).
The next word is translated "go on" in the NASB it is the present active imperative of the verb "paristhmi" (stand ready or present) the Greek word that was used in a technical sense of ordering military soldiers who were trained to obey orders and used to taking orders to attack an enemy line at a weak spot.
"Paristhmi" (stand ready or present) was used to move large bodies of troops in a tactical situation. The implication is that these troops were trained, organized, recognized authority, and had the ability to obey and immediately respond to commands even when under pressure.
The verb is transitive; it means to place yourself under the command of some authority or to put yourself under someone's orders to do what they command. When you put yourself under someone you are in a system of authority so you are under the authority of someone else. To place yourself under orders was an old military way of saying, "Reporting for duty."
Once you place yourself under orders or you report for duty you do several things. You obey commands every day. So it is linked to obedience, to self-discipline, and to a constant series of orders being issued and obeyed.
Since the old sin nature's sovereignty over human life is broken and destroyed by baptism of the Spirit and resultant retroactive positional truth the believer must stop standing ready and refuse to place the members of their body in the service of the old sin nature as members of unrighteousness.
This is the command to experientially break with previous authority of the old sin nature and to place ourselves under a new authority. This is an order to recognize that the power of the old sin nature has been broken and proceed to get under the new system of authority that was noted with the phrase "walk in newness of life" at the end of Rom 6:4;" this is referring to the new spiritual life.
All of us are under orders from God, but since we are a large organization God has delegated authority in the human race.
Expanded Translation: Rom 6:13;"Stop placing your members under orders to the sin nature as weapons of unrighteousness." The present tense is a progressive present tense that refers to a continuous action that must be stopped.
Once a person receives Christ as savior he must recognize that Christianity is a new system of authority and discipline. Paul is saying, Stop listening to the old authority. The active voice: the believer is commanded to stop or halt.
This is a negative prohibition that comes from "mhde" (but not) plus the present active imperative of "paristhmi" (stand ready or present). The imperative is the imperative of prohibition that is used for a prohibition in the present imperative that demands that the action be stopped or halted.
Next, the accusative plural direct object from "melos" (limbs) referring to the limbs of the body. All of our limbs contain the old sin nature. We have been accustomed to obey the old sin nature as our way of life from the point of physical birth to regeneration but here Paul is addressing us after we have been regenerated.
Paul says, "Stop it." So "melos" (members or limbs) is referencing parts of the body, not the soul. Plus the possessive genitive plural from the personal pronoun "hymeis" (of you or your) referring your members," not someone else's.
Next comes the dative singular indirect object from the noun " hamartia" (sin) plus the article "ho" (the) making it monadic referring to "the sin nature."
The believer puts himself under orders to the old sin nature by sinning then remains there on the basis of reversionism that intensifies sin or human good, or both, into a system that functions in and endorses evil.
Then the accusative plural direct object from "hoplon" (tools, members, or weapons). It comes from the Greek word for soldier, "hoplite." Hoplon" was the weapon or tool of the "hoplite" (soldier) but it is plural so we have the word "weapons."
This actually makes sense when we understand that we are engaged in the invisible spiritual war of the angelic conflict. By serving the sin nature we serve satan and by serving God the Holy Spirit we serve Jesus Christ with our "weapons."
The weapon is the object of prohibition along with the descriptive genitive singular from "adikia" (unrighteousness) that refers to the use of the members of our body aka our weapons for the production of sin, and evil reversionism as "weapons of unrighteousness."
This includes not only sinfulness but also the functions of good and evil that are the trends of the old sin nature. The function starts with sin nature control of the soul and persists in reversionism depending on the use of rebound or not.
Expanded Translation "And stop placing your members as weapons of unrighteousness under orders from the old sin nature." The brain is physical so the brain is not a part of the soul, although there is a close relationship between the brain and the soul. The brain belongs to the body but the stream of consciousness belongs to the soul.
As part of the physical body the old sin nature resides in the brain but it does not reside in the stream of consciousness or in any part of the soul. The commands of this verse exist because of the relationship between the brain that is biological and the soul that is immaterial.
The soul's consciousness uses the physical brain but we must understand that they are separate similar to the way that we distinguish between the driver of a car and the steering wheel or engine of a car, so we must distinguish between the function of the soul and the brain.
The brain is a part of the body of corruption so the brain is a computer that is controlled by the old sin nature with its trends toward sin, toward human good, and toward evil. Under spiritual death the brain rules the soul since the old sin nature is located in the brain as a part of the human body.
At regeneration the power of the old sin nature is broken through the real imputation of eternal life to the human spirit at spiritual birth and the judicial imputation of God's perfect righteousness to the believer.
These two imputations break the power of death that old sin nature wields. Combined with the baptism of the Holy Spirit that for the first time places the human soul is in a position to be free from the sin nature and its authority over biological life.
But even after regeneration the brain continues to be programmed for good and evil as the policy of satan as the ruler of this world and the old sin nature continues to function as the de facto sovereign of human life.
The intake of Bible doctrine under the ministry of the Holy Spirit feeds new information into the brain that enables it to orient to the Lord Jesus Christ and the spirit instead of satan and the sin nature.
Only Bible doctrine resident in the soul can experientially accomplish what has been accomplished positionally by the baptism of the Spirit. Only through Bible doctrine resident in the soul under the filling ministry of the spirit is the brain enabled to understand the spiritual information that frees the believer from producing sin, human good and evil.
To place ourselves under orders to God and the parts of our physical including the brain as weapons of righteousness to God we must first enable the brain with Bible doctrine in the soul.
"but stand yourselves ready to God" the adversative conjunction "alla" (but) sets up a contrast between the negative and the positive command, plus the aorist active imperative of "paristhmi" (stand ready or present), the military term that we have seen that means to put yourself under authority. In this case it is referring to God's authority.
The visible manifestation of God's authority is Bible doctrine. "Paristhmi" (stand ready or present) also means that when you are under authority you must have self discipline that establishes the ability to respond persistently and consistently with positive volition toward doctrine.
Distraction is the enemy of self discipline. The aorist tense is a constantive aorist that views the action of the verb in its entirety. The action of the verb is to make a decision today, tomorrow, the next day, and every day that God gives you on this earth as a believer to function under His GASP system and advance spiritually.
The constantive aorist refers to action that takes place over a period of time from constant daily decisions. The period of time is from the day of salvation until the day that you die physically or the exit resurrection, whichever occurs first.
The active voice: the believer is commanded to produce the action of the verb. The imperative mood is the imperative of command. It is an order for the intake of doctrine on a daily basis from doctrine that is acquired on the basis of your personal volition.
The accusative plural direct object from the reflexive pronoun "heautous" (yourselves) follows. When the action expressed by the verb is referred back to its own subject the construction is called reflexive.
It is translated by a reflexive pronoun, "but put yourself under orders." You have to choose to do it. The dative of indirect object of the proper noun for God, "Theos" (God), plus the generic use of the definite article "ho" (the) making it monadic to emphasize the uniqueness of God so we have "the God" referring to God the Father.
The believer places himself under orders to the God by his attitude toward the teaching of God's Word. Production is the result of spiritual growth through the function of GASP.
But remember that production is never the means of either growth or blessing from God's justice because even legitimate production that is commanded in God's Word is predicated exclusively on spiritual growth.