(Rom 6:13) “Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.”   When I look back upon my life before salvation, I am ashamed. I am so glad the person I once was is dead. “Lord help me to long to live before You in such a way as to please You.“

(Rom 6:13) “Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.”  “Yield yourselves unto God” indicates the Lord’s desire to direct your (yes, your) life. The reason we fail so often is because we are not seeking to be led by the Lord now – this minute.

(Rom 6:11) “Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”  In other words, live as best you can to holiness, putting the Lord, His work, and His Word first in thought and deed. Self and its lust should be constantly put aside. 

(Rom 6:10) “For in that He died, He died unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God.”   We are to “live unto God” also. It is sad that most professing Believers seem to live for self instead of God. As Pastor I have often wondered about those who only come to Morning Worship. How can one possess the Holy Spirit and not be prompted to grow through the teaching of God’s Word?

(Rom 6:10) “For in that He died, He died unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God.”  As Jesus lived the life we should have lived and thus became our sacrifice for sin, dying in our place so that we could live in His, so He lived unto God the Father and thus should we live. Do you live with pleasing Him in mind? 

(Rom 6:10) “For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.”  Be careful of extra-Biblical teaching; that is, reject anything that is not the Word of God. Jesus died once – period. He was only in the grave three days. He rose again, physical, bodily. Yes, the body is now transformed, but no less physical: (Luk_24:39)“Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.”

(Rom 6:9) “Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.”  This statement goes contrary to the practice of the mass. Mass means “a rite for the dead”. Their thought is a need to keep Christ dead. No. The need was for Christ to live! If death has no more dominion over Him then it has none over the saved!

(Rom 6:8) “Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:”  I thought we are alive “now” in Him. We are spiritually. This is referring to the resurrection of our physical bodies. They will be changed  into eternal uncorrupted bodies, better than that which Adam and Eve possessed, made in the likeness of Jesus’ resurrection body!

(Rom 6:8) “Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:”   ‘Live with Him” Praise God, I live with Him now (right now) and will live in a visual presence (on my part) with Him for eternity! What a precious God to save a sinner, cleanse him, and put him constantly in His presence!