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In our verse by verse study of Romans we are at the last phrase of Rom 6:13; "and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God" the connective conjunction "kai" (and) plus the accusative plural direct object from the noun "melos" (members). The old sin nature is in every cell of the physical body.
Plus the possessive genitive plural from the personal pronoun "su" (of you). Plus the double accusative plural of "hoplon" ("weapons). Plus the descriptive genitive singular of "dikaiosune" (righteousness).
God's righteousness imputed is the only reason we have any blessing from God. Plus the dative indirect object from "Theos" with the article "ho" (the God).
Expanded Translation Rom 6:13; "And stop placing your members as weapons of unrighteousness (good and evil) under orders to the sin nature: but place yourselves under orders to God as those who are alive from deaths, and your members as weapons of righteousness to the God."
Verses 14 & 15 address the problem of distortion. Distorted thinking is an indication of wrong thinking. These verses reflect the principle that history repeats itself because mankind constantly repeats his failures because of deception and wrong thinking.
When there is divorcement from reality there is distortion in the thinking, and when there is distortion in thinking there is wrong thinking that results in the inability to recognize the negative historical trend that has been set up and reverse it.
Once the negative trend begins to gain momentum the only way the negative trend can be stopped is by personal intervention from the Lord Jesus Christ who controls history. He does that indirectly with doctrine deployed by the pivot or by direct intervention.
This is what must happen to save the USA and the world right now at this moment in history because God's solution is the only solution.
Rom 6: 14; the principle of victory over the old sin nature "For sin shall not have dominion over you" - the explanatory use of the conjunctive particle "gar" (for), then the culprit, the nominative singular subject from "hamartia" (sin), referring to the old sin nature, not personal sin.
Then we have the slavery, the lordship: the future active indicative of "kurieuo" (lord) that means to lord it over, to rule over or control. The future tense is a progressive future that conveys the idea of progress in future time.
The progress in future time comes from the consistent use of the rebound adjustment to God's justice when necessary, combined with the persistent function of GASP while on the road to maturity adjustment to God's justice.
From the time of our salvation during our advance toward spiritual maturity we are under the support of logistical grace from God combined with the support of positional truth because positionally the power of the old sin nature has been destroyed.
The active voice with the negative means the old sin nature does not lord it over or control the believer's life. The indicative mood plus the negative 'ou" (not) is a potential indicative of obligation expressing the contingent element that is persistence in the use of and confident expectation of provision from God's logistical grace to overcome the anxieties, worries, and fears that come from temptations and lusts trends of the sin nature.
The future active indicative is followed by the objective genitive plural from the personal pronoun "su" (of you). The personal pronoun is used because Christianity is personal; it is a personal relationship between the believer in Jesus Christ and God. So we have "For the sin nature will not lord it over you."
The adversities in physical human life and the pressure from the tyranny of the old sin nature have been broken so that a new Lordship can be established.
The potential indicative of obligation is the key to understanding this phrase. Positionally the power and the authority of the old sin nature is broken, but experientially the victory of the old sin nature is contingent on the use of the problem solving device of rebound plus a daily option for learning Bible doctrine under the ministry of the Holy Spirit using God's GASP system.
When this persists over time maturity adjustment to God's justice will always create capacity that is the predicate for even greater blessing from God.
Retroactive positional truth emphasizes the non-imputation of good and evil that relates to the rejection of good and evil that is the policy of satan as the ruler of this world and the function of the old sin nature as the ruler over the weakness of biological human life.
The believer is not only identified with Jesus Christ in His spiritual death on the cross, but the believer is also identified with Jesus Christ in His physical death and burial that is total separation from good and evil.
This means that the power of the old sin nature as the ruler of biological human life has been broken through identification with Jesus Christ in His spiritual death, physical death and burial.
However it is current positional truth that parlays positional victory into the experiential victory. The fact that we are positionally dead to good and evil does not mean that we are experientially dead to good and evil.
Current positional truth means that we are also identified with Christ in His resurrection, ascension and session. This emphasizes the new life that we noted in verses 4, 8, 10, 11, and 13. In verse 17 we will see more of this new life that is described as "that system of doctrinal teaching to which you were entrusted."
The new life must be a life of continuous assimilation of Bible Doctrine because that is the connection between position and experience and only source of spiritual growth and advance to spiritual maturity.
The new life can be expressed by an equation: potential + capacity = reality of blessing in time. The primary potential is justification, the imputation of God's righteousness at salvation.
The capacity is maximum doctrine resident and circulating in the soul results in the reality of blessing in time. Doctrine produces maturity adjustment to God's justice and blessings in time are conveyed as the result of capacity from maturity adjustment to God's justice.
Another equation describes a secondary potential: the baptism of the Spirit, plus capacity from maximum doctrine resident and circulating in the soul results in maturity adjustment to God's justice. This creates the reality of an encapsulated environment.
The environment for blessing from God's justice is encapsulated so that historical disaster or any other negative historical situation has no affect on the conveyance of those blessings.
In seeking to continue the enslavement of the believer after its power is broken the old sin nature distorts the Mosaic Law into a system of human good that creates systems of legalistic evil.
Legalism is the tendency of reversionism to distort the Mosaic Law into a system of works and human good that creates systems called "religion" that produce evil. Christianity is not a religion it is a personal individual relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
Religion is the devil's greatest form of deception. Religion and legalism distort the Mosaic Law into a system of good deeds in an attempt to gain God's approval and blessing but God never approves or blesses religion.
The next phrase in the verse becomes important because it emphasizes the fact that the believer is not under the authority of the Mosaic Law but comes under a new principle of blessing from God's grace. Grace is the exclusive source of our blessing in the sense that grace is the principle whereby God's justice provides blessing for every believer.
Being under the authority of grace means the deployment of God's grace provision of rebound and the PMA of Bible Doctrine under GASP for victory over the power of the old sin nature and continuing to advance to spiritual maturity that is the purpose of logistical grace provision.
"for you are not under law, but under grace" the postpositive particle "gar" (for) followed by the present active indicative of the verb "eimi" (are), plus the negative "ou" (not) that denies the reality of an alleged fact or an assertion of fact. Then a principle of authority, the preposition "hupo" (under) plus the accusative of "nomos" (law).
There is no definite article so it is anartharous emphasizing the quality of the law. In other words, there is nothing wrong with the law in its proper usage. Only the legalistic distortion of the application of law by religion becomes a problem.
The law in itself is holy, just, and good; it is from God so it is perfect but the law has limited objectives that are related to the conviction of the unbeliever and their need to believe in Jesus Christ to have their sins forgiven.
Once a person becomes a believer he is not under the authority of the law. Plus the adversative conjunction "alla" (but) emphasizing a contrast. There is a contrast of authority, and so we have a new law, the preposition "hupo" (under) plus the accusative of "charis" (grace).
This is our new principle of authority for blessing from God. Again, there is the absence of the definite article, emphasizing the qualitative aspect of "charis" (grace). Both the Mosaic Law and the principle of grace are from God, and when used properly both result in great blessing for the believer.
Expanded Translation Rom 6:14; "For the sin nature will not lord it over you: for you are not under law, but under grace."
We see here that while the Mosaic Law has a definite purpose that purpose does not include either salvation or victory over the old sin nature because the law cannot provide either salvation or victory over the sin nature.
The law only provides condemnation and believers in Jesus Christ are never under condemnation.
Rom 6:15; starts with a question regarding the distortion of grace. "What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?"
It begins with the nominative neuter singular from the interrogative pronoun "tis" ((what). Plus the inferential particle "oun" (then) forming the interrogative and setting up a principle win an interrogative and elliptical idiom. that means, "What then are we to conclude?"
Then the question: the aorist active subjunctive from the verb "harmartano" (shall we sin)? The constantive aorist refers to a momentary action, hence an occasional act of sin. The active voice: the believer produces the action of the verb through either mental, verbal, or overt sin.
The deliberative subjunctive mood is used here as a rhetorical device. Rhetorical questions in the Koine Greek represent an attitude of mind. Here the rhetorical question represents the false assumption in the form of a question.
We have already seen that sin does not advance God's grace. The first half of the chapter is based upon that question in verse one. God's grace can only be advanced by God's justice because grace is the policy of God's justice. Grace is the perfection and perfect character of God Himself.
Then we have the causal use of the conjunctive particle "hoti" (because) plus the present active indicative of the verb "eimi" (we are), plus the negative "ou" (not) that denies the reality of the alleged fact.
Next we have a repetition of what we had in the closing phrase of the previous verse: the preposition "hupo" (under) plus the accusative of "nomos" (law) of "under (the authority of) law."
"but under grace?" the adversative conjunction "alla" (but) setting up a contrast of authority, and then "hupo" (under plus "charis:" (grace). Grace is never increased and never advanced by any function of the old sin nature, whether sin or human good or evil.
Grace originates from God's justice. Grace is the policy of God's justice in providing blessings for mankind so grace cannot not motivate sin because grace is from God and God does not sin.
As a divine policy, therefore, grace cannot motivate sin or carnality and grace cannot motivate human good or evil.
Therefore being under the authority of grace means using grace provision to reject and oppose the trends of the old sin nature that includes sin but especially includes human good and evil.
Acceptance of human good and evil is the cause of the downfall of today's Christianity and Western Civilization at this time in human history because today's "christianity" has turned grace into licentiousness.