12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.” Romans 6:8-14.
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Life in Christ is the emphasis of the Scripture for today. We live with Christ. We are alive to God in Christ. We are under grace.
The Scripture does continue the important theme of the previous Scripture that we are “dead to sin” and we “are not under law”. But, life in Christ is the emphasis for the Scripture for today, and life in Christ enables us to present ourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and our members as instruments of righteousness to God. Life in Christ enables us to serve God as our master, not sin as our master.
Romans 7:4-6 ties it together so well. We are joined to Christ.
“Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.” Romans 7:4-6.
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