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Romans 6:9-10

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8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

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Chapter Six

Contents: Deliverance from the power of indwelling sin by counting the old life dead, and yielding to the new life.

Characters: God, Christ, Paul.

Conclusion: It is an abuse of the grace of God in Christ for the believer to think he can sin because he is justified by faith. We must cease from the acts of sin, denying the fleshly life the scepter over us, and surrender the soul to the conduct and command of the righteous law of God that our members may be instruments of righteousness unto God.

Key Word: Dead to sin, v. 2.

Strong Verses: 3, 4, 6, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, 23.

Striking Facts: vv. 3–6. The manner of Christ’s baptism is a figure of the believer’s spiritual burial and resurrection. Immersion symbolizes the entrance by the gateway of Christ’s death into the domain of His righteousness and resurrection life, and is the expression of the baptized one’s faith that God has taken him from among the dead and given him newness of life.

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Epistle to the Romans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Scholars often have difficulty assessing whether Romans is a letter or an epistle:

A letter is something non-literary, a means of communication between persons who are separated from each other. Confidential and personal in nature, it is intended only for the person or persons to whom it is addressed, and not at all for the public or any kind of publicity...An Epistle is an artistic literary form, just like the dialogue, the oration, or the drama. It has nothing in common with the letter except its form: apart from that one might venture the paradox that the epistle is the opposite of a real letter. The contents of the epistle are intended for publicity—they aim at interesting "the public."

Paul sometimes uses a style of writing common in his time called a  "diatribe". He appears to be responding to a "heckler", and the letter is  structured as a series of arguments. In the flow of the letter, Paul shifts his  arguments, sometimes addressing the Jewish members of the church, sometimes the  Gentile membership and sometimes the church as a whole.

The main purpose of  the epistle to the Romans is given by Paul in Romans 1:1, where he reveals that he is set apart by God  for the purpose of preaching the Gospel, which he explains. He wishes to impart  to the Roman readers a gift of encouragement and assurance in all that God has  freely given them (see Romans 1:11–12; 1 Corinthians 2:12).

The purposes of the  apostle in dictating this letter to his Amanuensis Tertius[16:22] is also articulated in the second half of chapter 15:

Paul asks for prayers for his forthcoming journey to Jerusalem; he hopes that the offering collected from the Gentile churches will be accepted there.

Paul is planning to  travel to Rome from  Jerusalem and to spend some time there before moving on to Spain; he hopes the  Roman church will support his mission to Spain.

Since Paul has never  been to Rome, he outlines  his gospel so that his teaching will not be confused by that of "false  teachers".

Paul is aware that  there is some conflict between Gentile and Jewish Christians  in the Roman church, and he  addressed those concerns (chapters thirteen and the first half of fourteen).  While the Roman church was presumably founded by Jewish Christians, the exile of  Jews from Rome in AD 49 by Claudius  resulted in Gentile Christians taking leadership positions.

This essay-letter composed by Paul was written to a specific audience at a  specific time; to understand it, the situations of both Paul and the recipients  must be understood.

From chapter 12  through the first part of chapter 15, Paul outlines how the Gospel transforms believers and the behaviour that  results from such a transformation. This transformation is described as a  “renewing of your mind” (12:2), a transformation  that Douglas J. Moo  characterizes as “the heart of the matter.” It is a  transformation so radical that it amounts to a “a transfiguration of your  brain,” a "metanoia", a “mental revolution.”

Paul goes on to  describe how believers should live. Christians are no longer under the law, that  is, no longer bound by the law of Moses, but under the  grace of God, see Law and grace. We do not need to live under the  law because to the extent our minds have been renewed, we will know “almost  instinctively” what God wants of us. The law then provides an “objective  standard” for judging progress in the “lifelong process” of our mind’s  renewal.

To the extent they have been set free from sin  by renewed minds (Romans 6:18), believers are no  longer bound to sin. Believers are free to live in obedience to God and love  everybody. As Paul says in Romans 13:10, "love worketh no ill to his  neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of law".

There are three passages in Paul's epistles in which Paul clearly condemns homosexuality: Romans 1:26-27, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, and 1 Timothy 1:8-11. (Within the Gospels, no teachings from Jesus concerning homosexual behavior are to be found.)