Great Subjects: <b>Rom.6-The Cross, Sanctification,</b>Rom.7-The Law of Sin and Death,The Believers struggle against The Sin Nature,<b> Rom.8-Gods' Prescribed Order of Victory, The Law Of The Spirit Of Life In Christ Jesus, Contrast, Deliverance,Conquerors</b>======== Romans chapters:6,7 & 8

Rom.6:1 "What shall we say then?<b>(This is meant to direct attention to Rom.5:20.)</b>Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?"<b>(Just because Grace is greater than sin doesn't mean that the Believer has a license to sin.)</b>

2.God forbid(presents Pauls' answer to the question). How shall we, who are dead to sin<b>(the sin nature),</b>live any longer therein?<b>(This portrays what the Believer is now in Christ.)</b>

3.Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ<b>(plainly says that this Baptism is into Christ and not water[1Cor.1:17;12:13;Gal.3:27;Eph.4:5;Col.2:11-13])</b> were baptized into His Death?<b>(When Christ died on the Cross, in the Mind of God, we died with Him; in other words, He became our Substiture,and our identification with Him in His Death gives us all the benefits for which He died; the idea is that He did it all for us!)</b>

4.Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death<b>(not only did we die with Him,but we were buried with Him as well,which means that all the sin and transgression of the past were buried;when they put Him in the Tomb,they put all of our sins into that Tomb as well)</b>:that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the Glory of the Father,even so we also should walk in newness of life<b>(we died with Him,we were bured with Him,and His Resurrection was our Resurrection to a"Newness of Life").</b>

5.For if we have been planted together<b>(with Christ)</b>in the likeness of His death<b>(Paul proclaims the Cross as the instrument through which all Blessings come;consequently,the Cross must ever be the Objest of our Faith, which gives the Holy Spirit latitude to work within our lives)</b>,we shall be also in the likeness of His Resurrection<b>(we can have the "likeness of His Resurrection,"i.e.,"live this Resurrection Life,"only as long as we understand the "likeness of His Death,"which refers to the Cross as the means by which all of this is done):

6.(The guilt of Sin is removed at conversion, because the nature no longer rules in our hearts and lives)

7.(We died with him upon Believing Faith,& set free from the bondage of The Sin Nature)

8.(We have Resurrection Life which is more Abundant Life[Jn.10:10])</b>
9.Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more<b>(means that His Work was a Finished Work, and will require nothing else);</b>death has no more dominion over Him<b>(because all sin has been Atoned; inasmuch as Christ is our Substiture, if death has no more dominion over Him, it has no more dominion over us' this means that the power of the sin nature is broken).

10.(All life comes from God and we receive that life by virtue of the Cross and our Faith in that Finished Work)

11.(While the Sin Nature is not dead, we are dead unto the sin nature by virtue of The Cross and our Faith in that Sacrifice,but only as long as our Faith continues in The Cross)

12.(The Believer must constantly look to Christ and The Cross[1Cor.1:17-18])
13.(Continued day to day Faith in the Finished Work of The Cross[Lk.9:23-24])

14.(If we try to live by any law, no matter how good it might be in its own right,the sin nature will have dominion over us because we are under Grace. The Grace of God flows to the believer on an unending basis only as long as the Believer exercises Faith in Christ and what He did at the Cross.Grace is the Goodness of God exercised by and through the Holy Spirit, and given to undeserving Saints)
15.(No license to Sin)
16.(We are slaves to sin unto death or Christ unto Life)
17.(Jesus Christ and Him Crucified)
18.(Slaves to Righteousness by Proper Faith in The Cross)
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22.(Free from Sin,Servants to God,The Holy Spirit and Everlasting Life)</b>
23.For the wages of sin is death<b.(speaks of spiritual death,which is separation from God);</b>but the Gift of God is Eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Lord<b>(as stated, all of this, without exception, comes to us by the means of what Christ did at the Cross, which demands that the Cross ever be the Object of our Faith, thus giving the Holy Spirit latitude to work within our lives and bring forth His Fruit).</b>


Rom.7:1 Know ye not, Brethren<b>(Paul is speaking to Believers),</b> (for I speak to them who know the Law,)<b>(he is speaking of the Law of Moses, but it could refer to any type of religious Law)</b>how that the Law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?<b>(The Law has dominion as long as he tries to live by law. Regrettably, not understanding the Cross regarding Sanctification, virtually the entirety of the Church is presently trying to live for God by means of the Law. Let the Believer understand that there are only two places he can be,Grace or Law. If he doesn't understand the Cross as it refers to Sanctification, which is the only means of victory, he will automatically be under Law, which guarantees failure.)

2.(Paul using analogy of the marriage bond)</b>

3.So then if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress<b>(in effect, the woman now has two husbands, at least in the Eyes of God; following this analogy,the Holy Spirit through Paul will give us a great truth; many Christians are living a life of spiritual adultery; they are married to Christ, but they are, in effect, seving another husband, "the Law";it is quite an analogy!):</b>but if her husband be dead <b>(the Law is dead by virtue of Christ having fulfilled the Lawin every respect),</b> she is free from that Law<b>(if the husband dies, the woman is free to marry and serve another; the Law of Moses, being satisfied in Christ, is now dead to the Believer and the Believer is free to serve Christ without the Law having any part or parcel in his life or living);</b>so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man<b>(presents the Believer as now married to Christ, and no longer under obligation to the Law).

4.(Proper fruit can only be brought forth by the Believer constantly looking to the Cross; in fact,Christ must never be separated from the Work of the Cross; to do so is to produce"another Jesus"[II Cor.11:4]).
5.(We have a completely new Way:Faith in Christ and what He did at The Cross guarantees perpetual victory,,,anything else in law(death))
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7.(Mans condition is not caused by the Law of God, for the Law is Holy:rather his condition is exposed by Gods Law)

8.(The Sin Nature working in Paul while not yet having his living for God going completely thru Faith in Christ and The Cross)</B>

9.For I was alive without the Law once<b>(Paul is referring to himself personally and his conversion to Christ; the Law, he states, had nothing to do with that conversion; neither did it have anything to do with his life in Christ)</b>:but when the Commandment came<b>(having just been saved, and not understanding the Cross of Christ,he tried to live for God by keeping the Commandments through his own strength and power; in his defense, no one else at that time understood the Cross; in fact, the meaning of the Cross, which is actually the meaning of the New Covenant, would be given to Paul)</b>, sin revived<b>( the sin nature will always, without exception, revive under such circumstances, which results in failure)</b>,and I died<b>(he was not meaning that he physically died, as would be obvious, but that he died to the Commandment; in other words, he failed to obey no matter how hard he tried; let all Believers understand that if the Adpostle Paul couldn't live for God in this manner, neither can you!).

10-11.(Paul thought since he accepted Christ, by that mere fact alone he could certainly obey the Lord in every respect;but he couldn't, and neither can you, in that fashion, despite all of his efforts to live for the Lord by means of Law-keeping)</b>

12-13-14.(Once again it is not the Law that is at fault, but rather the sin in man which opposed the Law. The Law is totally of God and from God, but we cannot keep It outside of Faith in the Cross; in other words, it is all in Christ)

15.(By mixing the Law with Christ Paul frustrates the Grace of God; that means the Holy Spirit will not help such a person, which guarantees failure[Gal.2:21]
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16-17-18-19-20(The Sin Nature ruling in Paul because he is using his will power and law, instead of Faith in Christ and The Cross Alone)
21-25.(Paul is Learning about The Law of Sin and Death of which he cannot satisfy within his own devices)</b>


Rom.8:1.There is therefore mow no condemnation <b>(guilt)</b> to them which are in Christ Jesus<b>(refers back to Rom.6:3-5 and our being Baptized into His Death, which speaks of the Crucifixion)</b>,who walk not after the flesh<b>(depending on one's personal strength and ability or great religious efforts in order to overcome sin)</b>,but after the Spirit<b>(the Holy Spirit works exclusively within the legal confines of the Finished Work of Christ; our Faith in that Finished Work,i.e.,"the Cross,"guarantees the help of the Holy Spirit, which guarantees Victory).</b>

2.For the Law<b>(that which we are about to give is a Law of God, devised by the Godhead in eternity past[1Pet.1:18-20];this Law, in fact, is "Gods' Prescribed Order of Victory")</b> of the Spirit<b>(Holy Spirit,i.e.,"the way the Spirit works")</b>of life<b>(all life comes from Christ, but through the Holy Spirit[Jn.16:13-14])</b> in Christ Jesus<b>(any time Paul uses this term or one of its derivatives, he is, without fail, referring to what Christ did at the Cross, which makes this "life" possible)</b> has made me free<b>(given me total Victory)</b> from the Law of sin and death<b>(THESE ARE THE TWO MOST POWERFUL LAWS IN THE UNIVERSE; THE "LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS" alone is stronger than the"LAW OF SIN AND DEATH";this means that if the Believer attempts to live for God by any manner other than Faith in Christ and the Cross, he is doomed to failure).</b>

3.For what the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh<b>(those under Law had only their willpower, which is woefully insufficient; so despite how hard they tried, they were unable to keep the Law then, and the same inability persits presently; any person who tries to live for God by a system of laws is doomed to failure, because the Holy Spirit will not function in that capacity)</b>;God sending his own Son<b>(refers to man's helpless condition, unable to save himself and unable to keep even a simple Law and, therefore, in dire need of a Saviour)</b>in the likeness of sinful flesh<b>(this means that Christ was really human, conformed in appearance to flesh which is characterized by sin, but yet sinless),</b> and for sin <b>( to atone for sin, to destroy its power, and to save and Sanctify its victims)</b>,condemned sin in the flesh<b>(destroyed the power of sin by giving His Perfect Body as a Sacrifice for sin, which made it possible for sin to be defeated in our flesh' it was all through the Cross):</b>

Only One Way To Victory:::Gods Prescribed Order Of Victory=Complete and Continuous Faith In Christ and What He Did On The Cross In Every Aspect Of Your Life Thru The Leadind And Power Of The Holy Spirit