“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound ?” - Romans 6 :1
This is a prime verse that people read and take out of context. It becomes a stick to prod Christians. It gets interpreted to - “stop sinning, do all you can to try to stop sinning, if you don’t you are basically abusing grace.” But in context, it is not talking about the action of sinning. It is talking about living out of your sin nature in Adam and not in righteousness. It can be read, “Shall I continue under Adam so that the law might come and expose sin and keep exposing sin, so that more law is needed, then even more grace will be revealed to overcome the sin !“ Paul just says, “NO, God forbid, you cannot! It is impossible! You cannot live in a state of sin, if you have come out of Adam, and are in Christ.
It is impossible you cannot live in sin if you are now in righteousness. Now you must see that it is still possible to do sinful things but that does not make you a sinner or in sin. You are now seated in heavenly places in Christ and you are righteous and holy united with Christ. Paul is very emphatic. He declares,
“For that is dead is freed from sin.” - Romans 6:7
The enchantment of condemnation and the law has caused us to completely be misdirected by trying to do something that in reality the Bible says has actually taken place. We either died with Christ or we did not! There is no continual, drawn out for years, dying with Christ. You are either dead or you are not!
“Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. “Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.” For in that he died, he died to sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. “Likewise, reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. “ - Romans 6:11
Understand and believe the truth that you have died with Christ. Reckon it. Don’t try to make it as though it is true. Believe it because it is true. It is not believing that makes it true. It is true so believe it. You have died with Christ. Understand that you are either dead or you are not and if you died in Adam, your sin nature died too.
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