The result was two deaths: Adam died spiritually (his spirit was separated from God and was no longer able to receive the things of the Spirit.) and physically.Physical death came from the sin, just as God said it would. “but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you will not eat from it because in the day you eat from it dying you will die,” Genesis 2:17. Spiritual death; however, came from Adam’s trespass.
Romans 5:12-21. “Because of this, just as through one man sin entered the world and through sin came the death, and thus death came unto all men because all have sinned. (for up to the point of the law, sin was in the world. However, sin was not reckoned being without a law.)But death reigned as king from Adam until Moses even upon the ones who did not sin in the likeness of Adam’s transgression, who is a type of the one about to come. But, not as the trespass thus is the gracious gift. For since by the one trespass many died, how much more by the grace from God and the gift by grace, the one through the one man Jesus Christ unto the many super abounds. And the gift is not according as through the one who sinned. For on the one hand the judgment out from one unto condemnation, but on the other hand the result of the gracious gift out from many trespasses resulted in righteousness. For since by the trespass of the one, the death reigned as king though the one, how much more the one having been received, the one abounding by the gracious gift and the gift of righteousness, in life reigns as king though the one, Jesus Christ. Therefore, just as through the result of one trespass unto all men unto condemnation, thus also through the result of the righteous act of one, unto all men unto righteousness of life. For just as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted to be sinners, thus also through the obedience of the one, the many were constituted righteous. Now the law came in, in order that the trespass should abound but where the sin nature abounded, grace super abounded, in order that just as the sin nature reigned unto death, thus also the grace should reign through righteousness unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Trespass verse Transgression: Trespass is an offence. We trespass when we determine to do something that is lacking in character, rather than taking the way of escape that God has provided for us. Transgression is a breaking of the Law. Christian’s today cannot transgress because they are not under any law. Romans 4:15 "for the law works wrath. For where there is no law, there is niether transgression."
“What will we say then? Should we remain in the sin nature in order that grace may about?” Roman 6:1
God made Adam in His own image and likeness. When Adam sinned, all humans that were born received his corrupt nature. Genesis 5:1-3 “This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. 3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:” Adam was created in the likeness; however, Adam’s son was born in his image, the image Adam possessed after the fall. This image was passed on to all men and therefore condemnation was passed unto all men for all are constituted to be in Adam.
When Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead, God took us out of Adam and placed us into Christ. Now, just as God had constituted us to be condemned in Adam, in Christ, God has constituted us to be righteous. However, our sin nature did not dissolve. Rather Christ’s death rendered it ineffective, Romans 6:6 “This we experientially know, that our old man has been crucified, in order that the body of the sin nature should be rendered ineffective, no longer to be slaves to the sin nature,” Within our position in Christ, we have died to the sin nature and are no longer slaves to it.
Since we are no longer in Adam, and therefore no longer slaves to the sin nature, why should we continue to govern our lives according to the desire of the sin nature? Obviously, we should not. So how do we avoid doing the wrong things that we do not want to do so that we can do the righteous things that we want to do?
Although the sin nature has been rendered ineffective, it is only ineffective when we are living from our position in Christ. When our mind is framed on the things above, Colossian 3:1,2, and we are governing the manner of our lives according to the spirit, the sin nature has no power over us, Galatians 5:16 “But I say, govern the manner of your life by the Spirit and you will in no way fulfill the desires of the flesh.”
However, when we are framing our minds on the desires of the flesh and governing our lives in such a way as to fulfill these desires, we become a slave again to the sin nature. Romans 8:5 “for the ones who are according to the flesh frame their minds on the things of the flesh, but the ones who are according to the Spirit frame their minds of the things of the Spirit.”
Romans 6:16 “ Don’t you know that the one you present yourself to, bond slaves unto obedience, salves you are to whom you obey, whether the sin nature unto death, or obedience unto righteousness.”
“What will we say then? Should we remain in the sin nature in order that grace may about?” May it never come to be! How shall we, the ones who are dead to the sin nature, still live by it? Romans 6:2
We are dead to the sin nature in Christ and alive unto God. “ Don’t you know that the ones having been baptized into Christ Jesus , were baptized into his death? Therefore, having been buried together with him through baptism into the death, in order that just as Christ was raised out from among dead men through the glory of the Father, thus also we should govern the manner of our lives in newness of life.” Romans 6:3,4
Overcoming the sin nature begins with lining up your frame of mind with God’s opinion of you. God counts you to be dead to your sin nature and alive to Him in Christ, you need to count this to be true. It is only in this frame of mind that you are going to be able to defend yourself against the sin nature. Why? Because our defense against the sin nature is not to fight it, but rather to redirect our actions to what is righteous.
“This we experientially know, that our old man has been crucified, in order that the body of the sin nature should be rendered ineffective, no longer to be slaves to the sin nature,” Romans 6:6
We are no longer salves to the sin nature because we have died to the sin nature in Christ. Romans 6:7 “for the one having died is set free from the sin nature.”
Not only have we died with Christ, we have also risen with Christ. Romans 6:8 “but since we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also be raised with Him.”
Defeating the sin nature starts with knowing you have died with Christ and have been raised to walk in newness of life; Reckon this to be true – take God at His word; then yield your members to righteousness.
Know - Reckon - Yield
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