Romans 5:1 - Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
"Therefore being justified by faith." Even though the word "being" is in there which shows a condition or a state, literally in the Greek text it shows Past Tense. "After having been placed in a position of justification." You've now been justified. It's put in the past. It's a one-time thing, never to be taken back!
Romans 5:2 - By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
The word rejoice is literally the word to boast or show boldness. We have boldness in hope of the glory of God. That is to say, "One day I am going to be in His presence." And that is the hope that my life is built on, not on the economic condition of the world, not on the condition of the worlds systems. Even though I get discouraged and I feel bad for people and the way things are in this world, my hope is not on this world getting straightened out. My hope is to one day be in the presence of God.
Romans 5:3 - And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Tribulations are those afflictions, and the word is THLIPSIS which means stress, pressure of the mind. In Acts 14:22, when Paul was re-circling through the cities that he had testified to in his first missionary journey, he went through confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorted them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
God allows tribulation and stress in order to direct us to Christ and to trust Him! We rejoice in tribulations. People think we're crazy! It says next, about the character of the believer, "And not only so but we glory in tribulations also:
Knowing (and that's the key), knowing what they are for. Knowing that tribulation works patience; Patience is the word HUPOMENO for remain under. It's the word endurance.
Romans 7:15 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
For that which I do, I don't understand. The term "I allow not" in the Greek means I don't understand. "What I'm doing, I don't even understand." For what I would, or wish to do, that do I not; but what I hate, that's what I'm doing! This man needs help, doesn't he?
He says what I'm doing, I don't know because what I want to do, I wind up not doing, but what I really hate to do, that's what I do.
Romans 7:18 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
The word "good" in the text is the word AGATHOS that has to do with Spiritual good, not human good.
Our flesh has a lot of good to it humanly. We can do some "good stuff." We can also mess up a lot too! But it does do some good. But that's not what it's talking about. There is no Spiritual good at all in our flesh. None!
Romans 7:23 - But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Now we have the law of the mind. It's the word NOUS, and it has to do with perception. It's not the PSUCHE, the psyche or the brain. It's the perceptive abilities of the mind. With the inner man, I take pleasure in the law of God, but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind.
The mind now, the NOUS, the perceptive processes, that is now the inner man.
It's cause: To bring me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members, not in my spirit. So, the sin that's in my flesh is warring against my mind that wants to serve God. It wants to take me captive. I cannot be enslaved to it, or taken captive by it, other than my decision to serve it. But I can also not serve it anytime I want to because I'm born of the Spirit of God.
I like the way you explain it. In the Greek text it has the definite article. It is "the sin."
This reminds me of " John 1:29" The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
The book of Romans has a lot to present!
Paul gives us a clear picture of the battle within ourself in chapter 7!
This is not persecution from the world. It's a battle with the flesh. Our flesh!
When Paul says verse 23 there's sin in his members, he speaks for us all!
Paul said For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Similar to Jude 1:23... "hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Praise the Lord for Jude 1:24, "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy!
Amen! We see this in Romans 7:23. The sin that's in our flesh is warring against our mind that wants to serve God, and it wants to take us captive. We cannot be enslaved to it, or taken captive by it, other than our decision to serve it. But we can also not serve it anytime we want to because we're born of the Spirit of God.
"The sin" in the Bible is an expression of "the sin principle" or source of sin. I agree with what you say about the battle being in our flesh. Our flesh is in constant rebellion against the Spirit of God in us. We often think that our battle or fight is with Satan, but he's already been defeated.
As believers, I think most of our daily struggle is between our flesh and the Spirit which dwells within because our flesh wants nothing to do with the things of the Lord. We are given the freedom to choose to either serve the flesh or the Spirit. That's where it can become a struggle, is when we begin to stray from the Lord and fellowship in His word.
Romans 6:22 - But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
But now, being made free from "the" sin, definite article, being free from the sin, and you have become servants to God, you have your fruit unto holiness, again sanctification, and the end everlasting life.
Your life now produces a different kind of fruit. It's not sin and death anymore. It's not destruction anymore. You've been made free from the sin principle, and you have become servants to God.
And your fruit is now unto sanctification and the end everlasting life.
Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
This summarizes the whole thing. The wages of "the" sin, (definite article). Sin pays wages! The Greek word for wages is what you pay a soldier with; except it's not money. It's rations. The wages of sin is death. How's that for a reward?
But the gift (CHARISMA) of God, and this is interesting because it gives us a good idea as to what the word charismatic means. It means the expression of God's grace. Charis is grace, Charisma is when grace is in action. The gift of God is God's grace blessing us with eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. But if you notice, it's not a wage, it is a gift.
Sin pays wages. God doesn't pay wages. He gives as a gift. We can never earn it, and we get full inheritance!
Romans 7:14 - For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Carnal is another word for flesh. The law is actually spiritual. But I am fleshly, sold under sin.
Romans 5:16 - And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
Here we have two different Greek words for our English word "gift." It says, "And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift:" That's DOREMA, a gift that is given.
For the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift, the CHARISMA, is of many offences unto justification. Free gift! Sin brings condemnation and judgment. The free gift brings righteousness over the offence and judgment.
Romans 6:2 - God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
He says God forbid, which in the Greek language, it is the strongest expression of impossibility. May it not happen!
Where we see the word sin in this verse, in the Greek text it has the definite article. It is "the sin." In the bible, from the Greek language, it is used to designate this principle of sin or source of sin, who is the devil. The sin in the bible is represented by the devil.
Romans 6:19 - I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh:
And then the explanation because we have been commissioned:
For as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants, or slaves, to righteousness unto holiness.
The word holiness is the Greek word from which we get the word sanctification from. Yield your members as slaves for sanctification, for production!
Romans 5:4 - And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
And patience works experience; Now this is an interesting word. It is literally the word proof. That's why English translations have a difficult time finding out how to express this word. When God puts me in a designed tribulation that He has for me, He is proving Himself to me, and He's proving me to everybody else! It's not how I look in church, or how I look in bible study. It's the faithfulness of God that takes me through all of my situations.
And patience, experience; and experience works out hope: You see, my hope is certain. Hope, ELPIS in the Greek, does not mean a hope like, "I wish it will happen." It's an expectancy. You expect it to happen. You know it's going to happen. When God proves Himself to us, through all of our situations, that builds our hope because of experience in Christ.
Romans 5:11 - And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
It's interesting that the Greek word for atonement KATALLAGEN is the word reconciliation! We have received reconciliation. I have a personal relationship with the creator of the universe. If you told that to somebody on the street, they would think that you belong in the "loony farm." But it's true, and it's a relationship!
Romans 5:15 - But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. This word gift is the word CHARISMA. You see, it is not a talent. It is not an ability. It means expression of grace. It comes from the word CHARIS.
Romans 5:1 - Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
"Therefore being justified by faith." Even though the word "being" is in there which shows a condition or a state, literally in the Greek text it shows Past Tense. "After having been placed in a position of justification." You've now been justified. It's put in the past. It's a one-time thing, never to be taken back!
Romans 5:2 - By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
The word rejoice is literally the word to boast or show boldness. We have boldness in hope of the glory of God. That is to say, "One day I am going to be in His presence." And that is the hope that my life is built on, not on the economic condition of the world, not on the condition of the worlds systems. Even though I get discouraged and I feel bad for people and the way things are in this world, my hope is not on this world getting straightened out. My hope is to one day be in the presence of God.
Romans 5:3 - And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Tribulations are those afflictions, and the word is THLIPSIS which means stress, pressure of the mind. In Acts 14:22, when Paul was re-circling through the cities that he had testified to in his first missionary journey, he went through confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorted them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
God allows tribulation and stress in order to direct us to Christ and to trust Him! We rejoice in tribulations. People think we're crazy! It says next, about the character of the believer, "And not only so but we glory in tribulations also:
Knowing (and that's the key), knowing what they are for. Knowing that tribulation works patience; Patience is the word HUPOMENO for remain under. It's the word endurance.
Romans 7:15 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
For that which I do, I don't understand. The term "I allow not" in the Greek means I don't understand. "What I'm doing, I don't even understand." For what I would, or wish to do, that do I not; but what I hate, that's what I'm doing! This man needs help, doesn't he?
He says what I'm doing, I don't know because what I want to do, I wind up not doing, but what I really hate to do, that's what I do.
Romans 7:18 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
The word "good" in the text is the word AGATHOS that has to do with Spiritual good, not human good.
Our flesh has a lot of good to it humanly. We can do some "good stuff." We can also mess up a lot too! But it does do some good. But that's not what it's talking about. There is no Spiritual good at all in our flesh. None!
Romans 7:23 - But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Now we have the law of the mind. It's the word NOUS, and it has to do with perception. It's not the PSUCHE, the psyche or the brain. It's the perceptive abilities of the mind. With the inner man, I take pleasure in the law of God, but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind.
The mind now, the NOUS, the perceptive processes, that is now the inner man.
It's cause: To bring me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members, not in my spirit. So, the sin that's in my flesh is warring against my mind that wants to serve God. It wants to take me captive. I cannot be enslaved to it, or taken captive by it, other than my decision to serve it. But I can also not serve it anytime I want to because I'm born of the Spirit of God.
Sin. "The sin"
I like the way you explain it. In the Greek text it has the definite article. It is "the sin."
This reminds me of " John 1:29" The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
The book of Romans has a lot to present!
Paul gives us a clear picture of the battle within ourself in chapter 7!
This is not persecution from the world. It's a battle with the flesh. Our flesh!
When Paul says verse 23 there's sin in his members, he speaks for us all!
Paul said For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Similar to Jude 1:23... "hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Praise the Lord for Jude 1:24, "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy!
Thanks and God bless.
Amen! We see this in Romans 7:23. The sin that's in our flesh is warring against our mind that wants to serve God, and it wants to take us captive. We cannot be enslaved to it, or taken captive by it, other than our decision to serve it. But we can also not serve it anytime we want to because we're born of the Spirit of God.
"The sin" in the Bible is an expression of "the sin principle" or source of sin. I agree with what you say about the battle being in our flesh. Our flesh is in constant rebellion against the Spirit of God in us. We often think that our battle or fight is with Satan, but he's already been defeated.
As believers, I think most of our daily struggle is between our flesh and the Spirit which dwells within because our flesh wants nothing to do with the things of the Lord. We are given the freedom to choose to either serve the flesh or the Spirit. That's where it can become a struggle, is when we begin to stray from the Lord and fellowship in His word.
Blessings to you also!
I can't wait for chapter 8.
God bless.
Romans 6:22 - But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
But now, being made free from "the" sin, definite article, being free from the sin, and you have become servants to God, you have your fruit unto holiness, again sanctification, and the end everlasting life.
Your life now produces a different kind of fruit. It's not sin and death anymore. It's not destruction anymore. You've been made free from the sin principle, and you have become servants to God.
And your fruit is now unto sanctification and the end everlasting life.
Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
This summarizes the whole thing. The wages of "the" sin, (definite article). Sin pays wages! The Greek word for wages is what you pay a soldier with; except it's not money. It's rations. The wages of sin is death. How's that for a reward?
But the gift (CHARISMA) of God, and this is interesting because it gives us a good idea as to what the word charismatic means. It means the expression of God's grace. Charis is grace, Charisma is when grace is in action. The gift of God is God's grace blessing us with eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. But if you notice, it's not a wage, it is a gift.
Sin pays wages. God doesn't pay wages. He gives as a gift. We can never earn it, and we get full inheritance!
Romans 7:14 - For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Carnal is another word for flesh. The law is actually spiritual. But I am fleshly, sold under sin.
Romans 5:16 - And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
Here we have two different Greek words for our English word "gift." It says, "And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift:" That's DOREMA, a gift that is given.
For the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift, the CHARISMA, is of many offences unto justification. Free gift! Sin brings condemnation and judgment. The free gift brings righteousness over the offence and judgment.
Romans 6:2 - God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
He says God forbid, which in the Greek language, it is the strongest expression of impossibility. May it not happen!
Where we see the word sin in this verse, in the Greek text it has the definite article. It is "the sin." In the bible, from the Greek language, it is used to designate this principle of sin or source of sin, who is the devil. The sin in the bible is represented by the devil.
Romans 6:19 - I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh:
And then the explanation because we have been commissioned:
For as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants, or slaves, to righteousness unto holiness.
The word holiness is the Greek word from which we get the word sanctification from. Yield your members as slaves for sanctification, for production!
Romans 5:4 - And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
And patience works experience; Now this is an interesting word. It is literally the word proof. That's why English translations have a difficult time finding out how to express this word. When God puts me in a designed tribulation that He has for me, He is proving Himself to me, and He's proving me to everybody else! It's not how I look in church, or how I look in bible study. It's the faithfulness of God that takes me through all of my situations.
And patience, experience; and experience works out hope: You see, my hope is certain. Hope, ELPIS in the Greek, does not mean a hope like, "I wish it will happen." It's an expectancy. You expect it to happen. You know it's going to happen. When God proves Himself to us, through all of our situations, that builds our hope because of experience in Christ.
Romans 5:11 - And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
It's interesting that the Greek word for atonement KATALLAGEN is the word reconciliation! We have received reconciliation. I have a personal relationship with the creator of the universe. If you told that to somebody on the street, they would think that you belong in the "loony farm." But it's true, and it's a relationship!
Romans 5:15 - But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. This word gift is the word CHARISMA. You see, it is not a talent. It is not an ability. It means expression of grace. It comes from the word CHARIS.
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