Romans 6:1 New King James Version (NKJV)
WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN?
6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
Sin: Note this word is in the singular, not the plural. The idea is continuing in the root of all sins. Sin is the root. Sins are the fruit.
Sin, definition:
- Greek: Harmatia
- missing the mark
- a living ruling force. living being behind the acts of sins.
- In this context, it is the power causing the sins.
- Resides in every human being.
- This power creates a blinding mindset for the gratification of self, putting all, including God down the lists of interests.
- The secondary goal, which is first with Sin, a desire or thought that opposes God's.
- Sin is like a living ghost. It is unseen, but real. It only leaves behind its evidence of gratification, destruction, and hostility between us and God.
- It is the power, cause, source, dynamo of lawless impulses, ignorantly or consciously followed.
- A power acting as a disease to the human soul, building a propensity of bending toward its will.
- Creates in us a sin-nature [personality, mood, individualism which follows a certain path of lawlessness. This nature may be intellectual: a belief system of opinion void of truths of God. It may be sensual: a bent toward self-satisfaction in things prohibited by God which is highly destructive to the soul. All of which begins and feeds the monster in us called pride: the gratification of self which exalts "me" in a way which breaks unity with God and others. Pride is the vise-tight grip to take whatever satisfaction of gain for "me" that offends another.
- Sin causes sins.
- Sin develops in man a propensity-a strong liking toward something that becomes entrenched and cannot be easily broken. Examples: self-ego, lusts, wanting things, manipulating people, being entertained, illicit drugs, lying, cheating, stealing, etc.
Sin is a dictatorial power, a supreme power in man prior to salvation, causing a blindness which covers the human mind from seeing Truth from God. Only the Holy Spirit can open the eyes to see the truth about sin, the need and solution for Sin.
Upon turning from self to Christ for Jesus to become Lord, the blindness is removed. The spiritual eyes can now see.
Prior to salvation, Sin offers no free choices but to live carrying out its demands. The life under Sin is called a "servant of sin."
Upon turning from self to Christ for Jesus to become Lord, the blindness is removed. The spiritual eyes can now see.
Prior to salvation, Sin offers no free choices but to live carrying out its demands. The life under Sin is called a "servant of sin."
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants ofrighteousness.
For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
The question asked:
Can we continue in living as a slave to the power of sin? Paul's answer is, "No."
It is impossible to return to that. So why try?
It is impossible to live as we did prior to the new birth. Upon repentance and yielding our life to Christ, the ruling king of sin was dethroned, removed from power. We are no longer servants to serve sin--the dictator or sins, its soldiers. Though deposed, it is still present but no longer controls us to have to obey it.
To Christians, Sin may convince us we cannot be free and that we must serve its desires. But legally, God wants us to know that the power of sin and sins were dealt with by Christ on the cross and He promises we can never go back before to living as a slave to sin as we once did. We may try to serve sin again but we can never do that because Christ is now King of our life, even though we may dethrone Him as Lord. We will always be saved and under the King's rule, but no longer under Sin's rule. But we can choose to ignore Christ and yield ourselves back to sins. But we will never enjoy it as we would have before receiving Christ into our life.
Sin, prior to salvation, ignored God and caused us to believe lies about God. Therefore, we attempted to stay away from God and His children. Sin taught us to think wrong things about God and the truth about Christians.
Sin would not allow us to believe. Sin would not allow us to want to know and serve God. Sin forced us to serve ourselves and to create belief systems which were false and blinding to the human mind.
Conclusion: Sin cannot control you. Christ is King and Lord in your life. There is only misery trying to return to someone you can no longer be.
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