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ROMANS 6
16 Don't you know that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, then, of the one whom you are obeying, you are slaves -
whether of sin, which leads to death,
or of obedience, which leads to being made righteous?
Obedience to what???
17 By God's grace, you, who were once slaves to sin, obeyed from your heart the pattern of teaching to which you were exposed;
Slaves to sin???
What is sin???
18 and after you had been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.
So, we were set free from sin, and sin leads to death.
Being set free from sin and death, we now are to become enslaved to righteousness
What is sin???
What is obedience/righteousness???
19 (I am using popular language because your human nature is so weak.) For just as you used to offer your various parts as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led to more lawlessness; so now offer your various parts as slaves to righteousness, which leads to being made holy, set apart for God.
If impurity and lawlessness, lead to sin and death.
What is opposite of impurity/Lawlessness/sin/death???
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in relationship to righteousness;
If we were slaves of sin/impurity/Lawlessness/death, and in this we were free from a life of obedience/righteouness; and we are now turning the tables.
What is the opposite of sin/impurity/Lawlessness/death???
21 what benefit did you derive from the things of which you are now ashamed? (sin/impurity/Lawlessness/death) The end result of those things was death.
22 However, now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you do get the benefit - it consists in
being made holy,
set apart for God,
and its end result is eternal life.
23 For what one earns from sin is death; but eternal life is what one receives as a free gift from God, in union with the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord.
Chapter 7
1 Surely you know, brothers - for I am speaking to those who understand Torah - that the Torah has authority over a person only so long as he lives?
2 For example, a married woman is bound by Torah to her husband while he is alive; but if the husband dies, she is released from the part of the Torah that deals with husbands.
What does this mean???
3 Therefore, while the husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress if she marries another man; but if the husband dies, she is free from that part of the Torah; so that if she marries another man, she is not an adulteress.
What is Paul saying here???
4 Thus, my brothers, you have been made dead with regard to the Torah through the Messiah's body, so that you may belong to someone else, namely, the one who has been raised from the dead, in order for us to bear fruit for God.
Have we been made dead with regards to the Torah/Teachings/Comandments of God???
Or, have we been made dead/freed from the part of Torah dealing with sin and death, or in other words, set free from the Torah/Law of sin and death???
5 For when we were living according to our old nature, (What was the old nature) the passions connected with sins worked through the Torah in our various parts, with the result that we bore fruit for death.
What is the fruit that leads death???
impurity....
Lawlessness....
sin....
death....
6 But now we have been released from this aspect of the Torah, because we have died to that which had us in its clutches, (What had us in its clutches???) so that we are serving in the new way provided by the Spirit and not in the old way of outwardly following the letter of the law.
Why does Paul say not in the old way of outwardly following the letter of the Law???
7 Therefore, what are we to say? That the Torah is sinful? Heaven forbid! Rather, the function of the Torah was that without it, I would not have known what sin is. ....
(So without Torah we can not know what sin is.)
7.... For example, I would not have become conscious of what greed is if the Torah had not said, "Thou shalt not covet."
If we are to turn from sin to righteousness, and Torah tells us what sin is and what being holy,
set apart and righteous is;
What are we to turn to if not the Torah through Yeshua our Messiah???
8 Sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of evil desires - for apart from Torah, sin is dead.
If God would have never said "Do" and "Do not" there would have been no sin.
But He did say.
9 I was once alive outside the framework of Torah. But when the commandment really encountered me, sin sprang to life,
Why does sin spring to life through the Comand???
Because we dont want to obey.
10 and I died. The commandment that was intended to bring me life was found to be bringing me death!
The Commandments/Torah was intended to bring us life???
11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me; and through the commandment, sin killed me.
12 So the Torah is holy; that is, the commandment is holy, just and good.
13 Then did something good become for me the source of death? Heaven forbid! Rather, it was sin working death in me through something good, so that sin might be clearly exposed as sin, so that sin through the commandment might come to be experienced as sinful beyond measure.
So the Torah is not a source of death???
What would the opposite of a source of death be???
A source of life???
14 For we know that the Torah is of the Spirit; but as for me, I am bound to the old nature, sold to sin as a slave.
So why does Paul say not in the old way of outwardly following the letter of the Law???
And did he say the Torah is spiritual???
15 I don't understand my own behavior - I don't do what I want to do; instead, I do the very thing I hate!
16 Now if I am doing what I don't want to do, I am agreeing that the Torah is good.
If the Torah is good why not try and conform to that which leads to being made holy, and
set apart???
ROMANS 6:22 "However, now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you do get the benefit - it consists in
being made holy,
set apart for God,
and its end result is eternal life.
Paul says in verse 22 "I delight in the Torah of Elohim according to the inward man."
16 Don't you know that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, then, of the one whom you are obeying, you are slaves -
whether of sin, which leads to death,
or of obedience, which leads to being made righteous?
Obedience to what???
17 By God's grace, you, who were once slaves to sin, obeyed from your heart the pattern of teaching to which you were exposed;
Slaves to sin???
What is sin???
18 and after you had been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.
So, we were set free from sin, and sin leads to death.
Being set free from sin and death, we now are to become enslaved to righteousness
What is sin???
What is obedience/righteousness???
19 (I am using popular language because your human nature is so weak.) For just as you used to offer your various parts as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led to more lawlessness; so now offer your various parts as slaves to righteousness, which leads to being made holy, set apart for God.
If impurity and lawlessness, lead to sin and death.
What is opposite of impurity/Lawlessness/sin/death???
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in relationship to righteousness;
If we were slaves of sin/impurity/Lawlessness/death, and in this we were free from a life of obedience/righteouness; and we are now turning the tables.
What is the opposite of sin/impurity/Lawlessness/death???
21 what benefit did you derive from the things of which you are now ashamed? (sin/impurity/Lawlessness/death) The end result of those things was death.
22 However, now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you do get the benefit - it consists in
being made holy,
set apart for God,
and its end result is eternal life.
23 For what one earns from sin is death; but eternal life is what one receives as a free gift from God, in union with the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord.
Chapter 7
1 Surely you know, brothers - for I am speaking to those who understand Torah - that the Torah has authority over a person only so long as he lives?
2 For example, a married woman is bound by Torah to her husband while he is alive; but if the husband dies, she is released from the part of the Torah that deals with husbands.
What does this mean???
3 Therefore, while the husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress if she marries another man; but if the husband dies, she is free from that part of the Torah; so that if she marries another man, she is not an adulteress.
What is Paul saying here???
4 Thus, my brothers, you have been made dead with regard to the Torah through the Messiah's body, so that you may belong to someone else, namely, the one who has been raised from the dead, in order for us to bear fruit for God.
Have we been made dead with regards to the Torah/Teachings/Comandments of God???
Or, have we been made dead/freed from the part of Torah dealing with sin and death, or in other words, set free from the Torah/Law of sin and death???
5 For when we were living according to our old nature, (What was the old nature) the passions connected with sins worked through the Torah in our various parts, with the result that we bore fruit for death.
What is the fruit that leads death???
impurity....
Lawlessness....
sin....
death....
6 But now we have been released from this aspect of the Torah, because we have died to that which had us in its clutches, (What had us in its clutches???) so that we are serving in the new way provided by the Spirit and not in the old way of outwardly following the letter of the law.
Why does Paul say not in the old way of outwardly following the letter of the Law???
7 Therefore, what are we to say? That the Torah is sinful? Heaven forbid! Rather, the function of the Torah was that without it, I would not have known what sin is. ....
(So without Torah we can not know what sin is.)
7.... For example, I would not have become conscious of what greed is if the Torah had not said, "Thou shalt not covet."
If we are to turn from sin to righteousness, and Torah tells us what sin is and what being holy,
set apart and righteous is;
What are we to turn to if not the Torah through Yeshua our Messiah???
8 Sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of evil desires - for apart from Torah, sin is dead.
If God would have never said "Do" and "Do not" there would have been no sin.
But He did say.
9 I was once alive outside the framework of Torah. But when the commandment really encountered me, sin sprang to life,
Why does sin spring to life through the Comand???
Because we dont want to obey.
10 and I died. The commandment that was intended to bring me life was found to be bringing me death!
The Commandments/Torah was intended to bring us life???
11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me; and through the commandment, sin killed me.
12 So the Torah is holy; that is, the commandment is holy, just and good.
13 Then did something good become for me the source of death? Heaven forbid! Rather, it was sin working death in me through something good, so that sin might be clearly exposed as sin, so that sin through the commandment might come to be experienced as sinful beyond measure.
So the Torah is not a source of death???
What would the opposite of a source of death be???
A source of life???
14 For we know that the Torah is of the Spirit; but as for me, I am bound to the old nature, sold to sin as a slave.
So why does Paul say not in the old way of outwardly following the letter of the Law???
And did he say the Torah is spiritual???
15 I don't understand my own behavior - I don't do what I want to do; instead, I do the very thing I hate!
16 Now if I am doing what I don't want to do, I am agreeing that the Torah is good.
If the Torah is good why not try and conform to that which leads to being made holy, and
set apart???
ROMANS 6:22 "However, now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you do get the benefit - it consists in
being made holy,
set apart for God,
and its end result is eternal life.
Paul says in verse 22 "I delight in the Torah of Elohim according to the inward man."
