Not under the Law means that Jesus died for our sins. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfu/romans-6.html. OR servants of OBEDIENCE to righteousness.. I pray my new life in Christ may grow in grace and that my faith in the truth of Your Word may be put into action - so that I not only believe Your Word but am ready and willing to act upon it moment by moment.. to Your praise and glory - this I ask in Jesus name, AMEN. Be holy within and holy without. "Is the Holy Spirit being allowed to transform your life? Romans 12:1). If those are your questions, then I have correctly interpreted Romans 9:6-13, because those are precisely the questions that Paul anticipates and responds to (9:14-18, 19-24). Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?". His third instruction touches the will." 6 It is not as though God’s word had failed. "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". We should "present ourselves unto God" (i.e. Pastors George and Sharon, and Blue-Eyed Christian Returns!, could you please explain the bit about "ye are not under the law"? https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mpc/romans-6.html. "Commentary on Romans 6:13". Kindred Spirit18:1 (January-April1994):7. And (as the natural fruit of this) your members (until now prostituted to sin) [as] instruments (for the practice) of righteousness unto God. ἑαυτοὺς καὶ τὰ μέλη, your members; yourselves and your members) First, the character of the Christian is brought under consideration; secondly, His actions and duties. See on Luke 16:31. Any part of yourselves. There is no reference to a battle-field, out rather to the thought of Romans 6:11. hoplaproperly signifies “arms;” or implements of war; but it also denotes an instrument of any kind which we use for defense or aid. The present tense, be presenting, denotes the daily habit, the giving of the hand, the tongue, etc., to the service of sin as temptation appeals to each. You can sign in to vote the answer. instruments of righteousness unto God—But what if indwelling sin should prove too strong for us? We must recognise new ownership. In particular, we should not use our natural capacities to commit sin. Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary, Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament, Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges, William Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament, Haldane's Exposition on the Epistle to the Romans. It appears that most of today's christians are completely blind and cannot read that very word in verse 16 (( obedience )) if they can see that word, do they ask their selves the question, OBEY what? Those who do this are described as being alive from the dead. Greek. Compare Luke 2:22; Acts 9:41; Romans 12:1. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cgt/romans-6.html. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. BibliographyHaldane, Robert. Ephesians 5:14, note, Revelation 3:1-3. Put at the service of; render. "Commentary on Romans 6:13". 15 What follows? Romans 6:13, NASB: "and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God." The reply of the next verse is, But it will not. 1896. Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? What then? Again, "free-will" is stressed. The problem presented Paul introduces the argument of 9:6-29 with a statement about the unbelief of Israel. enlist in God's army). The sin problem doesn"t arise in the body, is comes from the "heart/mind" (Mark 7:20-23). When you are studying scripture, keep the light right on your feet and take one step at a time. In verse13 , Paul discouraged people from allowing themselves to be used in the devil's service ("neither present your members unto sin"). Satan cannot force the will, and God will not. What then? https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/fam/romans-6.html. There is no occasion, with Dr. Macknight and others, to suppose that the word members here includes the faculties of the mind as well as the members of the body. We are in a dispensation where we should live after the SPIRIT that we will not fulfill the LUST of the FLESH. Use the scale on the left to tell how often the verses below are googled compared to each other. It is a specification of what in Romans 6:12 is included under the general term "body;" see Romans 7:5, Romans 7:23; 1 Corinthians 6:15; 1 Corinthians 12:12, 1 Corinthians 12:18, 1 Corinthians 12:20.As instruments - This word ὁπλα hopla properly signifies "arms;" or implements of war; but it also denotes an instrument of any kind which we use for defense or aid. In fact, the aorist imperative often lacks any special force, being used simply to command that an action take place-without regard for the duration, urgency, or frequency of the action. BibliographyGodbey, William. They believe that God automatically transforms every true Christian into the image of Christ during his or her present lifetime. I would respond that he or she may not be, but there is another possibility. "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged". Atheists, what were your religious teachers at school like? Indeed it would cease to be will were it forced by either: it is essential to its being that it be free.And your members as instruments, etc. Rev., present. If you do not sin, then their is no law to be under. Unto sin. Rather we are to present ourselves to God.. as those alive from the dead. As weapons, or, ‘instruments.’ The former sense is more literal, and accords better with the Apostle’s usage, and with the figure of military service. Christianity is a system that is likened to an on-going war. God wants to use the members of the body as tools for building His kingdom and weapons for fighting His enemies." And, i.e., and especially, your members (i.e., παριστάνετε, present your members) as instruments of righteousness to God. Israel is the focus of the Apostle Paul in Romans chapters 9, … 1685. The same word as before, but in a different tense. This is not a common church practice because people do not believe their bibles, but if a person does not give up sins that the church is aware of, that person should be given up to Satan that he may experience the awfullness of his sin and the destruction of the body that he may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ. © 2017 QuotesCosmos ● Home ● About ● Privacy ● Terms ● Principles ● Sitemap ● Contact. Members as instruments—Our limbs, all the parts and organs of our body, the false king, Sin, would devote as instruments to execute the behests of the lusts. Think and devise what is pure; speak what is true, and to the use of edifying; work that which is just and good; and walk steadily in the way that leads to everlasting felicity. Physical; though some include mental faculties. l. 1. c. 12. p. 18. Biblical fact not spiritual fabrication. practical or progressive sanctification) as the indwelling Holy Spirit works in our life to gradually change us, to become more like the Lord Jesus, Himself. παραστήσατε make a surrender once for all; cf. Break down the barrier or drive around it and you will have trouble. In the first clause - "Neither yield ye your members instruments of unrighteousness" - the present tense is used [ paristanete (Greek #3936)], denoting the habitual practice of men in their old unregenerate state; in the next clause, "but yield yourselves unto God," it is the aorist [ parasteesate (Greek #3936)] - suggesting the one act for all, of self-surrender, which the renewed believer performs immediately on his passing from death to life, and to which he only sets his continuous seal in all his after-life. American Tract Society. Who, having been restored to life, would desire to return to the loathsomeness of the grave? He must decline no labor which the Lord sets before him, no trial to which He calls him, no cross which He lays upon him. It is of the body that the Apostle is speaking. God is not a tyrant. Use this table to get … Neither yield ye your members, etc. See on Acts 1:3. Hodge's Commentary on Romans, Ephesians and First Corintians. "Some commentators think that Paul ... pictures this "presenting" as a "once-for-all" action, or as ingressive ("start presenting"), or as urgent. Gen 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. He identified with our death so that by faith we identify with His eternal life - and we are therefore to reckon ourselves dead to sin and to reckon ourselves alive to Christ - we simply believe what the Bible tells us is true.