Welcome! It’s time for Romans chapter 6! Romans chapter 6 has 23 verses. Here we get to go deeper into understanding what it really means to be dead to sin and alive to God. We also get to really understand that in-order to really die to sin, we must come alive to righteousness. It’s either one or the other. There’s no grey zone. Amen.
You may read through the entire chapter 6 on your own, first, then return to read through my summary which follows immediately after this paragraph. Feel free to comment elements of your own understanding, I look forward to reading them, as always!
There are two aspects to the salvation that we have received. One aspect is the objective salvation where we have been called out of darkness into the marvelous light of God and designated as children of God. This is a very important aspect. We enter into this aspect of salvation when we believe into Christ Jesus and confess Him as our Lord and Savior. This is the first stage of salvation. The second aspect of salvation is the subjective salvation. This is the salvation that issues from our being saved day-by-day from the world and from ourselves and our flesh of sin. This salvation is extremely important for us to live a regenerated and victorious life here on earth. It is necessary for the caring of the faith through which we believed into righteousness and it is necessary for our church-life.
In our subjective baptism into Christ, we embrace crucifixion and death. The putting to death of our old self and former manner of life. And we do this on a daily, hourly and even secondly basis. This is because with every waking day, the evil one is full of arrows targeted to cause us to step back and indulge our usual way of life where we serve unrighteousness with our body. This is why we must watch and pray so we do not fall into these daily, hourly and secondly temptations. These daily temptations or arrows are not necessarily very obvious things that are clearly bad. These are just things that do not align with the intentions that God has for us, after-all anything that is not of faith is sin. The words we speak, the thoughts we have, the actions we execute, how much of these things in our daily life proceeds from faith?
Anything that doesn’t bear good fruit is not good. No matter how it may look. Is the end result death or life? Do you feel the peace and joy of the Lord from it or do you feel further drawn into sorrow, confusion, etc.?
May the Lord open our eyes to this aspect of daily salvation. May He help us to come to the cross, daily. Amen.
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