God's grace and obedience to Him (part 8)

Romans 6:11  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. As we do, we die once but live forever in God.

Romans 6:12  Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Now Paul is cautioning us not to obey the mortal body and the “lust of the flesh and of the eye” (I John 2:15-16)

Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. Don't give into what will give instant gratifaction, but stick with God, walk as Jesus walked, obey God. When we begin our walk with Christ, if we are to truly obey God then we will walk as He walked. Just because we have died and are risen through baptismal waters doesn't guarantee us position in His kingdom. I look on baptism as a promise to God to walk as His Son did, not to earn a way into heaven but because of what God and Christ have done for all of us. And so it is our new covenant as we become new creations. (2 Corinthians 5). It takes a measure of faith and that is why Paul wrote Romans 5, so that we know where the depths of our faith takes us.

Romans 6:14  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Sin's hold is the law. The law points out what is sin in our lives, but once we died to sin we are under a new law, the law of grace.