But before His death He had a certain real connection with sin which His death ended—a connection such that He could be tempted by sin, came in contact with it in its various forms among men, e.g. 12:6-8). Romans 6:8-18 King James Version (KJV). How enlightening is the fact that, after all Paul had written of faith in preceding chapters, when it comes down to speaking of the Christian's justification and his hope of living eternally with Christ above, it is not faith which is mentioned, but dying with Christ. in the contradiction of sinners against Himself, and bore it through Divine imputation as the Substitute of sinners, the Lamb of God. vii., p. 179. : see note on Romans 6:5: there is no conscious separation of ethical and transcendent life with Christ—to Paul it is one life. 8. no longer dependent on ὅτι, but an independent and therefore all the more emphatic repetition of the important thought: death is no longer Lord over Him, has no more power over Him, such as it once had at the crucifixion. And therefore if we have died with Christ, we know and believe that we will also ‘live with Him’, we will share in His resurrection life both now, enjoying newness of life (Romans 6:4), and in eternity. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, we believe that we shall also live with him, Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him, if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also, "If" could be translated "Since" (first class condition in Greek that in this case represents a condition genuinely true to reality). Romans 6:8 f. Carrying onward the discussion by the metabatic δέ; and thereby passing from the negative side of the having died with Christ as proved in personal consciousness (τοῦτο γινώσκοντες, Romans 6:6) in. 1 * What then shall we say? Paul returns to his main line of reasoning. A holy man is by nature subject to sin equally with others; but he is holy because he subdues, tramples on, chains up, imprisons, puts out of the way this law of sin, and is ruled by religious and spiritual motives. In these verses, Paul continues his series of exhortations that deal with a Christian’s relationship to other Christians. That we shall also live with him - This does not refer primarily to the resurrection, and to the future state, but to the present. There we learn that God, having raised Jesus up with an act of mighty power (Ephesians 1:19 onwards), has in the riches of His grace also made us alive in Him and has raised us up and seated us with Him in the spiritual realm (Ephesians 2:4-6). God’s *blessings for the *Jews 9:1-5. v1 I speak the truth in *Christ. We shall live, συζήσομεν, the future, referring not to what is to happen hereafter, but to what is the certain consequence of our union with Christ. II. Whilst our spirits do not operate beyond our physical bodies in the material world, they do reach out ‘outside’ our physical bodies into the spiritual realm as we pray (2 Corinthians 10:4-5; Ephesians 6:18), and stand fast against the assaults of the Evil One by using the armour of God (Ephesians 6:10-18). They rise from the death which the law inflicts upon them when they die with Christ. 8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Ver. Ибо ежели возвращаемся мы к своим мерзостям, то отрицаемся Христа, участвовать в Котором не можем кроме как через обновление жизни, подобно тому, как и Сам Он ведет нетленную жизнь. As a tree cannot live and grow, cannot bear flowers and fruit, and expand itself towards heaven, unless it be first rooted and buried in the ground, so neither can the love of God in the soul, unless that which is earthly be dead and buried with Christ in His death. The reference or joint-reference to the future glory is not required either by the future, which, on the contrary, demands the same rendering exactly as ἐσόμεθα in Romans 6:5, nor by πιστεύομεν (see above). Этим он хочет научить нас тому, что христианам всю свою жизнь надлежит стремиться к сему обновлению. chap. The apostle here recalls the sentiment of Romans 6:5, in order to continue that train of thought (see the note at Romans 6:5). Planted in the likeness of His death, they are so also in the likeness of His resurrection, rise with Him to walk in newness of life. Having been conjoined with Him in His death, we are, and also will be, conjoined with Him in His resurrection (Romans 6:5), both now (Romans 8:10; John 5:24; Galatians 2:20) and in eternity (Romans 8:11; John 5:28-29). In like manner, since we die with him, we die as he died. A Liberating Commentary on Romans 6, 7 and 8. by. "We hold it as an article of our faith, that we shall be alive with Christ." This book is written for those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. It tends very much to the clearing of a truth, to observe how the Scripture is fulfilled in it. Romans 6:8 The text exhibits a parallel between Christ’s literal death and resurrection and our spiritual death and resurrection, and not only a parallel, but also the real connection between them. They die to its condemning power and its legal dominion, as thoroughly as if sin had slain them personally and the law had literally exacted its penalty from them. Hence learn, That all those that are dead with Christ, have no reason to doubt but that they shall also live with him. Dead to a world of sin, as Christ was dead to the world of external things. His statement, or expression of belief, is demonstration to a Christian. Romans 8:6 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Romans 8:6, NIV: "The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace." We live in our bodies in this material world, but we also live in our spirits, as transformed by the Holy Spirit because we are ‘in Christ’ (2 Corinthians 5:17; John 3:1-6), as those who are thrust out into a spiritual world. The life here spoken of is that "eternal life" which believers are said to possess even in this world; see John 3:36, John 5:24; and which is manifested here by devotion to God, and hereafter in the purity and blessedness of heaven. Shall we persist in sin that grace may abound? … It becomes an article of our belief that we are to live with Christ. Commentary on Romans 9:25-29 (Read Romans 9:25-29) The rejecting of the Jews, and the taking in the Gentiles, were foretold in the Old Testament. The connection.—This lies in the union between Christ and His people. As pictured by baptism, the crucifixion with Christ of Romans 6:6. Participation of the believer's sanctified life with the life of Christ rather than participation in future glory, which is not the point emphasized. This is both a symbolic and a real resurrection from the dead. This section carries on the thought began in verses 4 and 5. As His death dissolved His connection with sin, so, if they be dead with Him, their death has dissolved their connection with it. This thought would only keep us aloof from that faith and make it a moral impossibility for us, since it would set before us the prospect of a similar perishing of the new life which we had gained. Paul now turned from discussing the effect that our union with Christ has on our problem with sin ( Romans 6:6-7). Take, for instance, the case of a sick man, when food of a certain kind is presented to him, and there is no doubt what is meant by disgust. We are to recognise that we are partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light (Colossians 1:12). However, the verses of this morning’s proper are probably less well-known than the soaring climax of this chapter in verses 8:31ff. This does not refer to the future world so much as to the present. Ибо ежели должны они являть собою образ Христов в умерщвлении плоти и духе жизни (Через оживотворение), а первое продолжается бесконечно, то и второе с необходимостью должно длиться вечно. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: we believe that we shall also live with him. πιστεύομεν] expresses, not confidence in the divine aid (Fritzsche), or in the divine promise (Baumgarten-Crusius), or in God not leaving His work of grace in us unfinished (Philippi); but simply the being convinced of our συζήσομεν αὐτῷ; in so far, namely, as the having died with Christ is, seeing that He has risen and dieth no more, in the consciousness of faith the necessary premiss, and thus the ground for belief as to our becoming alive with Him. Romans 8 is the pinnacle chapter in Paul’s most formidable epistle. Reference: Romans 6:8.—Clergyman's Magazine, vol. Romans 6:8-11, contain the application of the truth taught in the preceding passage: ‘If we are dead with Christ, we shall share in his life. We believe, etc. But γάρ in Romans 6:7 indicates its connection with what goes before, so that it is only with the δέ in Romans 6:8 that a new thought is introduced. For a fuller outworking of the idea of ‘living with Him’ as the Risen One in the present age see Ephesians 2:1-10 where Paul reveals to us something of life in the spiritual realm. Again, Paul's tremendous "if" is hurled into the consideration of man's salvation, as also in Romans 6:5, thus stressing the conditional nature of human redemption, one of the conditions being stressed in this verse, that of dying with Christ, in the sense of being baptized "into Christ," etc. And hereby he teaches us that newness of life is to be pursued by Christians as long as they live; for since they ought to represent in themselves an image of Christ, both by crucifying the flesh and by a spiritual life, it is necessary that the former should be done once for all, and that the latter should be carried on continually: not that the flesh, as we have already said, dies in us in a moment, but that we ought not to retrograde in the work of crucifying it. You are dead with Christ and alive unto God. Nov 26, 2000. A Access (Romans 5:1-11) – The benefits of justification N New Adam (Romans 5:12-21) – We are children of two “Adams” S Struggle w/ Sin (Romans 6:1-8:39) Struggle, sanctification, and victory. 8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. Romans 8 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries For ( 1063 ) ( gar ) is a term of explanation and in this case explains why the mind of the flesh is at enmity with God. (Rom. In my opinion, the Best All-Around commentary on Romans is the second edition of Douglas Moo’s 1996 commentary on Romans in the New International Commentary on the New Testament (Eerdmans, 2018). The expression refers to the end put to Christ’s connection with sin and our connection with it by death. sun. Romans 6:8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him; we be dead with = we died together with (Greek. It is by recognising that we can rise over sin by His risen power, by us ‘living with Him’. That is what ‘living with Him’ means while on earth. The parallel.—Is one of death and life. This instruction refutes the doctrine of eternal security.He writes this letter to converted Romans, those who had already accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior. Such, therefore, is the subject of the Epistle for today (Sixth Sunday after Trinity). Why should not this privilege be yours? The Apostle now resumes his main thought. ‘Christ being raised from the dead, dieth no more, death hath no more dominion over Him … in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. the positive active side of his moral being and nature, shall be a fellowship of life with the exalted Christ; that is, shall be able to be nothing else than this. Romans 12:6-8 NIV We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. Не потому, что плоть в нас умирает в один миг, как было сказано выше, но потому, что не позволительно пятиться назад в ее умерщвлении. This life of Christ, to which we are conformed, is described in the following verses, first as perpetual, and secondly, as devoted unto God. We shall also live with him ... is a pledge reaching into the eternal world. For whilst what has been described with regard to dying with Christ in Romans 6:3-7 has been largely ‘positional’, although including within it the conception of the ‘death’ of our old life, it has been reinforced as regards our rising with Christ by the life of the Spirit. i.e. We are in fact raised up here, and, as it were, made alive to him. He proceeded to explain the effect that our union with Him has on our problem with death. (6) Translate, For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace. Besides, the point is decided by the assertion, ‘we believe.’ It is a matter of faith, and not of present experience. And this co-operation of course supposes a knowledge, knowledge of the way (Romans 6:6) and of the end (Romans 6:8). Rev., correctly, we died. This is both a symbolic and a real resurrection from the dead. Once in a while people ask why I do not give altar calls, where I invite people to come forward to indicate that they want to receive Christ as Savior and Lord. Dogmatic belief rather than trust, though the latter is not excluded. Therefore count yourself so and aspire after freedom from sin and life unto God. The end of sin is death. Romans 6:6-7, to its positive side, which is likewise exhibited as based on the consciousness of faith (πιστεύομεν). 2. But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. Even those who in the end turn out to be saints and attain to life eternal, yet are not born saints, but have, with God's regenerating and renewing grace, to make themselves saints. Romans 6:8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that … So, too, when we are said to reign with him, to be glorified together, both these ideas are included; see Romans 8:17, and many similar passages. A supposition, or presupposed condition; the thing supposed, is the baptized persons being dead with Christ; If we be dead with him, that is, by the exercise of daily mortification: If we have fellowship and communion with him in his death, that as he died for sin, we daily die unto sin: Then followeth, 2. To live here is but to lie a dying. Commentary on Romans 6:1-14 View Bible Text For many of us, Romans 6 is scripture we have turned to as we have developed a theology of baptism, debated the merits of immersion versus sprinkling based on the imagery of burial and resurrection, and to whom it should be applied. And we can live in newness of life (Romans 6:4; Romans 6:11). I. Only men seeking first the Kingdom of God and His goodness will be interested in these writings. To live with Christ, therefore, includes two ideas; association with him, and similarity to him. Sinners are but ploughing iniquity, sowing vanity, and reaping the same. Dogmatic belief rather than trust, though the latter is not excluded. If we have fellowship with Christ in his death, we have reason to believe we shall have fellowship with him also in his resurrection and life: see Romans 6:5. Certainly … All such as own the obligation which their baptismal vow and Christian profession puts upon them, and solemnly lays them under; namely, to keep the whole gospel, even as they who were circumcised were obliged to keep the whole law. Free from Sin, Slaves of Righteousness, Part 1 What is the Meaning of "Under Law" and "Under Grace"? Practical application.—‘Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ.’. Also live with him—Live in conformity with his character. Freedom from Sin; Life in God. I. On the other hand, consider how pleasant a meal is to the hungry, or some enlivening odour to the faint; how refreshing the air is to the languid, or the brook to the weary and thirsty; and you will understand the sort of feeling which is implied in being alive with Christ, alive to religion, alive to the thought of heaven. As he was raised up from death, so we shall be raised from the death of sin. It need no longer have dominion over us (Romans 6:14). we believe that we shall also live with him; not only a life of justification by faith in his righteousness; and a life of sanctification from him, and to his glory; the continuance of which, and a perseverance in it, are firmly believed; but a life of glory and happiness with him hereafter, both in the new Jerusalem, in the new heavens, and new earth, in the glorious state of the church on earth, and in heaven to all eternity; where they shall be personally and visibly with him, in soul and body, and shall live in the most intimate and uninterrupted communion with him, enjoying the highest pleasure, and the most consummate happiness; and are therefore under the greatest obligation, whilst here on earth, to live, not in sin, but to righteousness, and to his praise and glory; with whom they are now dead to sin, and with whom they not only hope, but believe they shall live throughout the endless ages of eternity. Spiritually His people live through a Resurrection. As God does in Genesis 3, the apostle threatens these Christians with God's utter abhorrence of sin and His unwavering promise to judge it.. Paul later illustrates this process of judgment to the Hebrews: 1 Corinthians 15:54-57). Believers, [Note: E.g, Mounce, p152; and Cranfield, 1:312-13.]. I stopped the car, and I vaulted over the gate, and I ran around in a great big circle striding as wide as I could. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Dead with Christ — Conformed to his death, by dying to sin. These may be said to be dead and crucified with Christ, having by the assistance of his Spirit, in some measure crucified the flesh with its inordinate affections and lusts; and if they here live like him, so they shall also live with him: Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. That is, that the effect of his death is to destroy the power of sin; and the result of his living is the communication and preservation of Divine life to all who are connected with him. We believe, i.e., we have a confidence, founded on the promise and revealed purpose of God. Lesson 44: Understanding the Unbelieving Mind (Romans 8:6-8) Related Media. The frequent mention of Christ in the inculcating of Christian precept and doctrine implies in our lives also, and in the fulfilling of all Christian precept and doctrine, the frequent recurrence to Him as that source of life. I. So I want you to run around that cir… The aorist. Participation of the believer's sanctified life with the life of Christ rather than participation in future glory, which is not the point emphasized. Though everlasting be not excluded, yet a spiritual life is principally intended; we shall so live with Christ, as no more to return to dead works. Observe here, 1. Dead with Christ; in the sense above explained-one with him in sympathy, desire, and effort as to the object of his death, the deliverance of his people from sin. ii., p. 82. Sin could no more condemn Him and bring Him to death, the penalty of the law, when by death He had exhausted the law’s penalty. 8.But if we have died, etc. Death has no more any dominion over him. George E. (Jed) Smock . The perpetuity of the life of Christ is one of the points in which our life is to be conformed to his. III. It was a truth believed by those whom he addressed, because taught by Paul and the other Apostles. At the same time it is not to be explained as if an ἀεί or the like stood beside συζήσομεν (without falling away), as is done by Tholuck; compare Theophylact. We believe - All Christians. The aorist. If the former, the ἀπεθάνομεν σὺν χριστῷ, be true, we cannot doubt the latter. That we will also live with him. It is therefore at baptism that this love is by the Holy Spirit planted within us; it is then that we are buried with Christ, in order that we may live with Him that life which is in God, in holy affections now and in fulness of joy hereafter. 8. The Apostle speaks of it as a future life, which it is unnatural to interpret as signifying the believer’s spiritual life here, or as importing the continuation of it to the end of his course. Romans 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. This is not confined, however, to the present life, but as Christ lives forever, so the apostle goes on to show that we shall. We “died” with Christ at one point in the past (aorist indicative). As his life is perpetual, it secures the continued supplies of life to all his members. "Out of the strong comes forth sweetness," out of death life; and to resign earthly hopes, pleasures, and advantages does require that the heart hath found something better, the treasure of new affections which it values more. The believer understands that the final object which God has in view in crucifying his old man (Romans 6:6) is to realize in him the life of the Risen One (Romans 6:8-9), and he enters actively into the divine thought. J. Williams, The Epistles and Gospels, vol. It has in mind not only future resurrection, but our present life in the Spirit. θάνατος αὐτοῦ οὐκέτι κυρ.] No, the Christian life is but a shadow of heaven. J. H. Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons, vol. The death is viewed as an event, not as a state. There are several excellent commentaries on Romans in recent years. Swindoll's New Testament Insights (Insights on Romans 6-8) ... all of which means you can read this book as a serious commentary on Romans or for general reading (rather than for study purposes etc). Now if we be dead with Christ - According to what is stated in the preceding verses. It is not a conclusion of reason; it is not simply a hope, a peradventure; it is a faith, an assured conviction that God, after having justified us through the blood of Christ, will not leave us spiritually defiled. We are not to consider the apostle as merely running a parallel between the natural death and resurrection of Christ, and the spiritual death and resurrection of his people, as has already been remarked, but as showing that, in consequence of union to him in his death, we must die as he died, and live as he lives. Thus we learn from this that in our spirits we are already seated with Christ in heavenly places, operating there with Him, simply awaiting our resurrection body (Ephesians 2:6). It includes, therefore, all the consequences of redemption. But from where can we obtain the power to have this victory over sin? If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if … Now if we be dead with Christ - If we be dead in a manner similar to what he was; if we are made dead to sin by his work, as he was dead in the grave; see the note at Romans 6:4. If he lives, we shall live also. ‘Living with Him’ we are therefore to live as citizens of Heaven (Philippians 3:20) in partnership with Him (Romans 6:4; Romans 6:11; John 14:23; Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 3:17; Hebrews 2:10-11) as we await His coming (Philippians 3:20), because we have been transferred under the Kingly Rule of God’s beloved Son (Colossians 1:13). For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the la… Our animal powers cannot exist in all atmospheres; certain airs are poisonous, others life-giving. 8 Now “Now” advances the argument. That meaning, therefore, cannot be allowed here. Romans 6:8 Context. Now if we be dead ('if we died') with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him - `the future (to use the words of Hodge) referring not to what is to happen hereafter, but to what is the certain consequence of our union with Christ.' For as we have already seen (Romans 6:3-5) Christ did not just die. The spiritual life of His people is as undying as His own: its vitality is unquenchable; death cannot hurt it, or end it, or have dominion over it. Death is the result of sin. With Christ dwelling within us (Ephesians 3:17; John 14:23; Colossians 1:27), we must allow Him in His risen power to live out His life through us in this earth, whilst we also enjoy our experiences in the spiritual realm. That is, we are sure that the consequences of his death are not merely negative, i.e., not simply deliverance from evil, moral and physical, but also a participation in his life. 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Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him: Now — rather, since then — believers are one with Christ in His death, they have the certain prospect of for ever living with Him. I am not lying. Rev., correctly, we died. Romans 8:6, ESV: "For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace." Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:19–20, Romans 6:12–14. Romans 6:8. “But if we died along with Christ, we believe that we shall live along with him, ‘But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,’. Comp 1 Corinthians 15:25. Это повторяет он лишь с той целью, чтобы добавить следующее за этим утверждение: Христос, однажды воскреснув, более не умирает. There we share His throne (as He also shares His Father’s throne - Revelation 3:21). 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