Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Dead to sin

Rom 6:10-14
10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
  • How might our ignorance of monarchies and their methods hamper our understanding of words like reign, present, master, and obey?
  • Why should you not let sin reign in your mortal body?
  • What is involved with obeying something or someone?
  • What lusts do you find it easy to obey?
  • How does a lust tell you what to do?
  • To what sins do you present your physical self?
  • How do you do you present your physical self to these sins?
  • How do you present yourself to God?
  • How does grace change your behavior?

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