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William barclay daily bible study12/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Paul's first reaction is to recoil from that argument in sheer horror. The conclusion of your argument is that sin produces grace therefore sin is bound to be a good thing if it produces the greatest thing in the world. In fact we can go further than that and say that sin is an excellent thing, because it gives the grace of God a chance to operate. Sin does not matter, for God will forgive anyway. The more we sin, the more grace will abound. The Objector: Well, if that is so, let us go on sinning. The Objector: You are, in fact, saying that God's grace is the most wonderful thing in all this world. The Objector: You have just said that God's grace is great enough to find forgiveness for every sin. The argument springs from the great saying at the end of the last chapter: "Where sin abounded, grace superabounded." It runs something like this. So you, too, must reckon yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.Īs he has so often done in this letter, Paul is once again carrying on an argument against a kind of imaginary opponent. ![]() He who died, died once and for all to sin and he who lives, lives to God. But, if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him, for we know that, after Christ was raised from the dead, he dies no more. For a man who has died stands acquitted from sin. For this we know, that our old self has been crucified with him, that our sinful body might be rendered inoperative, in order that we should no longer be slaves to sin. For, if we have become united to him in the likeness of his death, so also shall we be united to him in the likeness of his resurrection. 6:1-11 What, then, shall we infer? Are we to persist in sin that grace may abound? God forbid! How shall we who have died to sin still live in it? Can you be unaware that all who have been baptized into Jesus Christ have been baptized into his death? We have therefore been buried with him through baptism until we died, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the father, so we, too, may live in newness of life.
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