75 Bible Questions Your Instructors Pray You Won't Ask [aVKs] by unknow

Author:unknow
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Question 41

What Does “Under Grace,

Not Law” Mean?

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace (Remans

for him to have said.

the passage

Should we attempt to deal with this verse without surveying the verses that preceded it in chapter 6 of Remans? Obviously not. Yet there are many, many Bible teachers who try to do just this. They read into Paul’s words what they would

But Paul was a logical man. He built up his arguments, step by step. What precedes a conclusion by Paul is crucial for understanding one of his conclusions. Sin does not have dominion over our souls. This is a statement of fact, a description of our very nature as redeemed people. Paul argues this way throughout

4, 6-7). But sin

mortal bodies; it is still a threat to our witness

11-13). He says

b). Got that?

reign over our

we should not serve sin”

not. This is an

not a description of our redeemed nature. It is

an “ought,” not an “is.”

the

to

How can Paul say that we are not under law, if he wants us to honor the law in our daily walk with God? Because he wants us to know that we are not under

of the law. We are not under the

which confronts covenant-breakers. We are not

the law of God, for it no longer sentences us to the second death, as it did before Christ redeemed us. Instead, we are under grace, to do good works

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