Romans Six and One

(Romans 6:1)

Bro. Lee Vayle   -   November 21, 1979

	Shall we just pray? Heavenly Father, again we praise and thank You for
Christ, Our risen Lamb, the Bleeding Lamb for died for us and now has
gone up into Glory, seated the right hand of the Majesty on high, making
intercession for us; our Mediator, our Intercessor, our High Priest, and
now our Husband to the Bride. We thank You, Lord, for Your great care
over us, You exercise that care is here in the mist tonight, specially
Lord as You watch over Your Word, watch over us and our study thereof,
Lord God, that it might be of You, in Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. You
may be seated.              

1.	Now, the message is Romans 6:1. 

		(1)	What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may 		
				abound?

	Now, because of the divisions of chapters in the Bible, which were put
there by a Roman Catholic priest, but no doubt ordained of God? And many
times we actually lose the meaning of the Scripture because the
divisions cause’s to break our thought and perhaps to segregate the
thought from what is previous. Thinking we are going into a new thought,
when it is really part of the old thought. 

	So, that the segregation of Romans 6:1, from the two previous chapters
especially contend to give rise to the false impression that this church
at Rome was involved in sin. Such perhaps as in the Corinthian church,
where It said, [1Corinthians 5:]

		(1) 	It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, as
is not 						so much named among the Gentiles, that (a man took) his
father's wife.

		(2) 	And (you're) are puffed up, and not mourned...  

2. 	However, Romans 6:1 has not been invoked by deliberate sin, in the
church, in the presumption that sinning is natural and necessary to put
Divine grace on display. But, to truly understand this verse, we go back
to, at lease chapter 5, and read verses 8-11. As a prelude to verses
12-21, which are more thoroughly involved perhaps than other portions of
Scripture. And It said here: [Romans 5:] 

		(8) 	But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
						sinners, Christ died for us.

		(9) 	Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be
saved 						from wrath through him.

		(10) 	For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled (of) God by the
death 						of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved
by his life.

		(11) 	And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus
Christ, 						by whom we have now received the (reconciliation.)  

3.	Now, continuing:

		(12) 	Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death
by 						sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned:

		(13) 	For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed
when 						there is no law.

		(14) 	Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them 		
			that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who
						is the figure of him that was to come.

	Then, It goes on to verses 15-21. Now, you will notice that in verses
8-11, he is eulogizing what Christ accomplished for us by His death.

		(8) 	...in that while we were yet sinners, and we were unloving, and
had 	                        				not loved Him.

	God literally died in the Person of Jesus Christ, for His enemies, and
then in verse 12, 

 		(12) 	Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death
by sin; 						and death passed upon all men, because, all men became
sinners.

	And then It says, 

		(13) 	...(where) there is no law, (sin cannot be imputed, because,
there is 						nothing said against it.)

	Said, “Death reigned from Adam to Moses.” That’s when the Law was
given. And, “Even over them that had not sinned after the similitude
of Adam’s transgression.” 

	In other words, he had not sinned like Adam’s sin. And Adam was the
“Figure of him that was come.” In other words, Adam becomes what
they called, the ‘Federal Headship’ of the, and are unsaved
condition and Christ is the ‘Federal Headship’ of those that are
born again.

4. Now, beginning at verse 15.

		(15) 	But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For... (since,
not if 							through there was something problematical there, or
something 							which was perhaps, not having the ability to follow
through, but the 						word is ‘since’.) For (since) the offence of
one many be dead, much 						more the grace of God, and the gift by
grace, which is by one man, 						Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

	Now here, the results of Calvary that is, the death of a man on a
Cross, far exceeds in productivity after its kind. And I am using that
in a complete phrase, productivity after its own kind. So, what Christ
accomplished on Calvary far exceeds in productivity after its own kind
than does Adam’s sinning, unto death in Eden, itself that is that
sinning producing after its kind all that has been and will be produced
in the realm of sin. 

5.	 So, we are looking that this picture here of the efficacy of sin,
the ability of sin, is tremendous as it produced after its kind, because
sin enter into the world and death by sin. But, it is not to be compared
to the productivity of the kind of what Christ produced. Then, in
Adam’s case, sin and all its consequences, ending up in the Lake of
Fire. But, in Christ case, grace and all its consequences, ending up in
the New Jerusalem, as It says in Hebrews 12, beginning about verse18.

		(18) 	For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and
that 					burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and
tempest,

		(19) 	…the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice 	
				they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them
					any more:

		(20) 	(For they could not endure that which was commanded, so much a 	
				beast touch the mountain, be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

		(21) 	…so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly
fear and 						quake:

		(22) 	But (you) are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the
living 					God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of
angels,

		(23) 	To the general assembly (of the) church the firstborn, which are
written 					in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and the spirits of
just men made 					perfect,

		(24) 	And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood
of 					sprinkling, (which) speaketh better things that that of Abel.

	So, here we see that the productivity after its kind, in the case of
Adam bought every man into sin, which sin had dominion over him and of
judgment, which would confine him to the Lake of Fire. But under Jesus
Christ, we find the productivity, or what He produced was in measurably
greater and took us from death and insulation from Almighty God right to
the very Presence of God, through the Blood of Jesus Christ and placed
us in the New Jerusalem. 

6.	Then back over here in [Roman 5,] the verse 16, It says, reading
also: 

		(16) 	And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the
judgment 					was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many
offences 						unto justification.

	Now here is a further comparison by contrast as in verse 15, sin must
be judged. And if you had time, (which we won’t take time,) the Book
of Romans 2: 1. 

 		(1)	Therefore thou art inexcusable, whosoever thou art that judgest:
for 					wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou
that 					judgest doest the same thing.  

		(2)	We are sure that the judgement of God is according to truth…				
	(and so on.)

	The judgment of God according to truth and then, its according to a man
treasuring up, in impenitent heart, treasuring up wrath, God rendering
every man according to his deeds, (and so on.) A sevenfold judgment, and
that’s what Adam’s sin brought, it brought the…actually death and
after death, the judgment, and after the judgment, retribution, because
of the sin of man. 

7.	  Now, just one sin bringing death. But, here It said, that all the
sins in the world could be nullified, neutralize, with all the judgment
and that which would be attendant, upon the judgment and the penalties
exacted, every single one has been taken away, through the Blood of
Jesus Christ. As it says over in Romans 8.

		 (33)	Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? (In
other words, 					who dares arraign me in God’s court?) It is God that
justifeth.

 		(34)	Who is he that (commends me to death?) It is Christ that died,
yea 						rather risen again, who is the right hand of God (making)
intercession.      

	 So, we see here then in this contrast as it said also Hebrews 7:25,

		(25) 	…he is able also to save them to the uttermost (all) that come
unto						God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession…  

	All the sin in the world and all the judgments are put to one side
because of the Blood of Jesus Christ. And with the judgments set aside,
we must never forget that the penalty is also set aside, which would be
the Lake of Fire: And this even goes to the extent of the White Throne
Judgment, where the Blood of Jesus Christ stands there allowing them to
enter into Eternal Life.   

	And then also in Romans 5:17. 

		(17) 	For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they
						which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness 
					shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.

8.  Now, here we see that death is out of the picture, entirely
irrevocably. We are no longer plagued with death, we no longer have a
portion of death we are no longer isolated, or insulated from God. For
when a man he goes to a Paradise; which is a step up in a spirit body,
which Bro. Branham typed as the body… we called it the en-morphe,
actually God… actually the theophanic body, God showing Himself, for
He allows us to have the same thing. And that’s over here in John 5:
24 -27.

		(24) 	Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and
believeth 					on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not
come into 						(judgment); but is passed from death unto life. (Notice,
it takes the 						rebirth to do that.)

		(25) 	Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is,
when 					the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that
hear 						shall live.

		(26) 	For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the
Son to 					have life in himself;

	Then, of course over in John 10: 28-29, speaking of the Good Shepherd.

		(28) 	And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
neither 					shall any man pluck them out of my (Father's) hand.

		(29) 	My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man
is 						able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

		(30) 	I and my Father are one.

	In other words, everything that lies in the Son is His jurisdiction
that lay in the Father is completely one with the Father. So, that Jesus
as the risen Man, the High Priest, the Intercessor, absolutely is
legislating, in the complete and sovereign will of Almighty God. 

	So, death is no longer in the picture, only Life remains. As It says
over here in Romans 8:10.  

		(10) 	And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but
the 						Spirit is life because of righteousness. 

	It may be that the body dies but that does not constitute a separation
that constitutes a stepping up until the day of immortality, when we
begin reigning and ruling with Christ, going on again to the New
Jerusalem. 

9.	 Now, it is a Life of reigning by One Christ Jesus. It doesn’t say
that we reign ourselves, It says that He reigns. In other words…once
death, because of sin, had power over us, and would take us down to the
grave and to the lake… to the judgment, to the Lake of Fire.

	Now, there is nothing but Life, which annuls everything that death
brought and it is Christ in us, as Paul the apostle said, “I been
crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I but Christ lives
in me,” [Gal 2:20] and identification therein.  

10.  Now, in Romans 5:18.

		(18) 	Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to
						condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift 		
			(unto) all men unto justification of life.

	Ones man’s offence brought death, unasked for, bestowed on us, given
to us, heirs of death, dying and yet to die again. But, in the same
manner comes Life, through the foreknowledge and predestination of
Almighty God. Now notice, man is already judged as a sinner. That is
because he was born in sin, and in Adam. 

11. Now, today he is judged as a saint and you cannot judge a saint,
because he has been declared righteous. Once we had the old Adam, now we
have the New Adam! Once we had the first man, now we have the Second
Man, the last… which is the last Adam, the Second Man. 

	Now, again how can a man be judged a sinner when he has been declared
righteous? It is impossible, it cannot be done. 

	So, you will notice in here, “If by one man’s offence death
reign,” it had the thrall, it had the power, it had the ability to
keep one down, to keep one in subjection, to keep one fully in line with
all the death benefits of death. 

 	 Now, this One comes along Jesus, with all the benefits of life, and
everything is beneficial in the realm of life and we're declared
righteous. 

12.	[Romans] verse 19.	

		(19) 	For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by
the 					obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 

	And in here is further is a lesson in inheritance; I never made myself
a sinner, and I never made myself a saint. I was born sinful and now I
am reborn righteous. Again, we see here the sovereignty of Almighty God.
There is a sovereignty in the natural, which we cannot escape, because
there is one way that we are born, and with that birth we are born with
the heredity passed onto us by our parents, right back to Adam and the
serpent. And with it in there is all the genes and all the capability
and the capability that we received from Adam by disobedience cannot be
compared to the capability which we receive from the serpent by
rebellion. 

	So therefore, man was in a place of rebellion and in disobedience, he
wasn’t only capable of disobeying God, because Adam was not born
righteous, he was born innocent, and so we find that a man was capable,
indeed Adam and Eve were capable of entering into sin. But remember, the
serpent was the one that Satan used, who was in direct rebellion.       
               

	So, here we are in now, those who like the apostle Paul, considered
himself the chief sinner, because, he was in rebellion as well as being
disobedient. But, now through Christ that has been eliminated so that we
are no longer in that realm. 

13.  So therefore, the foreknowledge which we might say, the laying in
the realm of the genes and the chromosomes and the nature of our
forbearers which came forth in birth, which was signified
predestination. Which we see as in Adam, through the fall because, it
all came through Adam’s fall. Now, we see through the foreknowledge
and the predestination of Jesus Christ, the exact opposite. So, that now
as one went in one direction, the other now goes in the other direction.


14.  Now, in these verses, we have read so far, let us notice the theme
is always grace and sovereignty. It is just exactly as it is over here
in 1 Corinthians 15:49. 

		(49) 	And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear
the 					image of the heavenly.           

	There was no escaping the image of the earthy that is the reason we are
here. There was no other way that God’s children should come to this
earth. I realize that a certain preacher who want to be someone, is
always belittling the fact, of my… especially my preaching, because
let me assure you, I was IN Adam! Or, how did I get here? 

	You can talk about being in Christ all you want, and saying, as thought
it were a slur that you weren’t in Adam, let me tell you flat, you
were IN Adam! Or, I am looking at a bunch of goofy spooks! Oh, I get a
little riled up, because I am tired of nonsense.  And I just wonder of
some of you folk wouldn’t chase nonsense? I don’t want to be rough
on you but, my manner of preaching is rough. You are so sweet you might
get sour before it’s all over. I want you hard boiled, but I want you
to know one thing, you had to get here somehow. And you got here as a
fallen son and you were IN Adam. And God redeemed you so much for the
‘Two Soul’ nonsense. Let’s hit it right where it belongs, we are
not children anymore. See? You were there, and you had to be redeemed,
caught in a trap, as it were, as you had to bear the earthy, there was
no way out, or you could not have got here. See? Jesus did not have to
raise up stones to cry out. There was no way the stones would cry out!
You say, “Well, Jesus said so.” He said, “If they don’t.” But
they did! Certainly the stones aren’t going to cry out; unless they
are lively stones. A different story, you are going to cry out the Word
of God and sing, "Hosanna the True." 

15. As you have borne the image of the earthly, so you shall bear the
image of the Heavenly. And if you haven’t borne the image of the
earthy, you will never bear the image of the Heavenly. Every son went
down. See? Adam was caught; we were caught, rather, in the process that
Adam started. But Jesus, now listen, I will read it again; I want to get
the beauty of it. Adam started one process for us and we were caught.
Jesus started another process and we were enfolded, sheep that came
back, to the Shepherd and the fold. Sheep that had gone astray, not some
person that wasn’t foreordained. Foreordination, my brother/sister, is
not you being born-again at that moment and therefore, you have your
foreordination, as though some spirit could take you over. You already
had it! You were foreordained, and you were in the mind of Almighty God.
Adam started the process that trapped us, that caught us. Jesus started
a process that enfolded us.   

16.	 Now, let’s go [Romans[ 5:20.

		(20) 	Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But
where 					sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

	Now notice, God moral laws hammered home the awfulness and weight of
sin and showed us what we were in Adam, which was lost, lost, lost! See?
You ought to know…what it was like, that’s what the Gentiles were
like over here in the Ephesians 2. 

		(11) 	Wherefore remember, that (you) being in time past Gentiles in
the 						flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called
the 						Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

		(12) 	That at that time (you) were without Christ, being aliens from
the 						commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of
promise, 					having no hope, without God in the world: 

17.	That’s said to the same people: [Ephesians 1:]

		(3) 	Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath 
					blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in
Christ:

		(4) 	According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of
the 					world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in
love:

		(5) 	Having predestinated us…     

	When you and I were caught up in Adam, we have been completely enfolded
in Jesus Christ. What we were made one with in Adam we are now made with
that same oneness in Jesus Christ, our own Lord and Savior. 

  	Now and when sin had heaped up and all was despair, grace abounded
so, grace is greater than our sin. As the song writer said: 

		Marvelous grace of our loving Lord,                                   
                                                            		grace that
exceeds our sin and our guilt.                                          
         					Yonder on Calvary's mount outpoured,                      
                              					there where the Blood of the Lamb was
spilt.

		Grace, grace, marvelous grace…

	Now, going back: [Romans 5:]

		(20) 	Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But
(you 					see) sin abounded…  

	 So that the Law was a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. To point out
the displeasure of God and the penalty of God. But remember, there was
something standing already there waiting, as it were in the wings, for
the proper hour to come and take over. 

		(21) 	That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign
through 					righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

18.	 Now notice here in verse 21 goes back to 12-14.  

		(12) 	Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death
by 						sin; so (sin) passed upon all, for that all have sinned:

		(13) 	For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed
when 						there is no law.

	Now, when there’s no law, there’s no sin imputed. But remember,
Jesus Christ removed the ordinances which were against us. 

19.	Now, let’s just take a look at over there in Colossians 2, for
just a second, It said here in verse 14.

		(14) 	Blotting out the handwriting (and the) ordinances that was
against 						us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way,
nailing it to 					(the) cross;

		(15) 	And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of 
					them openly, triumphing over them in it. 

  	Now, many people years ago, legalist, they would take that and they
would say, “See, He took away all the ordinances; the tedium of
washing pots and washing pans and taking a sacrifice.” Hogwash! 

	Do you think brother/sister, I'd find it a chore to take a lamb and
take it to a priest and cut its throat and sprinkle it blood and eat its
flesh. if I had been caught in every multitude of sin and now could get
redemption by the blood of a lamb? What nonsense! Or wash a few pots and
pans? I used to like mussing in the kitchen, meddling around, I don’t
mind washing pots and pans and cooking up grub. I would of made a good
priest. Washing pots and pans and eating the meat and having a ball. 

	No, what was against us the moral law that said, “You should not
steel.” Paul said so, he said, “I would not a sinner exact the law
said, “Thou should not covet.” The moral law, that which went down
and commend us and force a penalty by our own conscious knowing that we
were guilty. See? 

20.	 Now, what does he do here? It says here, in this terrible condition
we are living in, sin, yeah, reading here: [Romans 5:]

		(14) 	(Now,) death reigned from Adam to Moses, over them that had not 
				sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression…  

	Now, of course we haven’t done what Adam did. But, we got the
‘Pandora’s Box’ loosed, so we all began doing things we
shouldn’t do. So sin which is virulent and desperate, accumulative,
bringing death, reigning, holding us as salves: now we are no longer
sinful and dead, but the righteousness of God and life in Jesus Christ.
That’s exactly what It says here, "For now, though that sin had
reigned." 

	In other words, sin had the authority and the ability to enforce itself
and causes its due course to take place until it was dealt with, because
sin has to be dealt with, its… it’s a self understanding measure
there. 

21.	 Now, with the righteousness of God, it is all gone.  because, Life
in Christ is reigning. So, comes the climax, I didn’t have a thing to
do with the first, which is Adam. But now I am caught and condemned.
Then comes Jesus in righteousness, and we didn’t have a thing to do
with that either. But now we are perfect in Him and life guaranteed, no
judgment, no penalties but life moving to immorality to the Eternal Life
of the New Jerusalem.     

  	Now, with the enormity of grace and life, our sin and death, wherein
the thraldom [bondage] of the first, is gone, we are now under the
thraldom of the second with all the reasonability on Jesus and none in
ourselves, and it is there then that the question arises. (I hope you
get what I said there? I have made this exceedingly short on purpose.
Because, after the preacher is through preaching, the deacon is gonna
‘deac’.) 

22. And now, with the enormity of grace and life, our sin and death were
in the thraldom of the first. See? That’s Adam and our sin and death,
the thraldom of the first is gone, and we are now under the thraldom, in
other words, not equal to the…I'll tell you, I wish I had the ability
to just put this the way I want to put it, but I may use some words here
as a contrast and yet, to give you the idea. 

	The tenuousness and the power of sin, in its ability as a serpent, to
overtake and to hold, to crush and destroy, it's now replaced by a
greater force, that does not exude itself, to deterioration and
degradation, but it’s just as tenuousness.  In fact, much more so! And
much greater in its determination to keep that which it has got within
its grasp, when enfolded, which is the believer brought back to Jesus
Christ, the sheep that was gone astray, the son that was fallen. In
other words, I am trying to show you that as one was forceful, the other
is much more forceful. As the one reigned, this much more reigns. See?
The greatness of the whole thing. 

23.	 And this is why the question came up, if all this is found in
Christ, the tremendous benefits, that far outweigh and exceed anything
found in Adam, then the question, Paul poses the question. It is not
something somebody has brought up, it is not something that somebody has
suggested. Paul brings it up from his own preaching. If Christ is
everything and there is no law, what he said, "shall then a man say…"
you would automatically now would follow, “Oh, let us then sin that
grace may abound.”                             

  	Now, see what I am trying to show you? It’s a legitimate question,
because the answer is legitimate. “Yes, sin all you want to sin, if
you can!” Then grace will abound. Go ahead and sin, if you are a child
of God? Go ahead, you won't be lost, but you might wish for a while you
were. 

	See what I am trying to show you here? This [Romans] 6:1, is the
natural result of a God Who is in sovereign control of the individual
and will lose none, but raise him up. And sin is so placed down, it is
nothingness compared to the greatness. Why they say, “Well, let’s
just… shall we not sin?” 

	Then Paul said, notice Paul is very crafty here, to make his point,
“Shall we sin that grace may abound?”  Shall there be greater and
greater and more and more sin, and there be more and more grace? No!    

24.	 Now, he takes you from your security in Christ into chapter 6. Now,
that you are in Him, what will it be like to walk as a Christian? Will
there be sin? No! Because, the other so far outweighs that which in
snared and trapped you to degradation; the other is so much greater,
lifting you to immorality, to a Throne and to New Jerusalem that the
expanse of life over shadows complete. That no man even want to turn
back to the life he’s been delivered from but, stepping upward-upward,
go on to the every heights in Christ Jesus our Lord. But, you see
that’s what this question posed, to let you know, to let you see, the
grace of Jesus Christ. 

	The merits of Calvary, the value of the Mediator, the strength of the
Intercessor, the Great Reconciler, that in Him lays everything. See? 

  	Paul is trying to take and renew our minds when he gets to chapter
12, after going through 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and then he swings right
back, the renewing of the mind. Pointing you right on, to the end-time,
where the renewing of the mind will bring you your glorified body. 

25.	So that’s what I wanted to show you, what shall we say, “Shall
we continue in sin that grace may abound?” It’s not that the Romans
were sinning, it’s not that anybody wanted to sin. But Paul was trying
to show you something, look, don’t ever magnify, talk about, eulogized
sin. It’s nothing but nothing, there won’t even be a trace of it, a
remembrance left when it’s all washed away. The Blood of Christ
scatters sin until there won’t be a bit of evidence. Shall we sin? No!
You don’t to even to consider it anymore, grace is already abounding,
there’s nothing you need to do…it’s all been done, just enjoy it.
“Know ye not as many that were baptized into Jesus Christ, where
baptized into his death?” [Rom 6:3] Don’t you know that’s all the
thing of the past, don’t you know it’s a new life? So, that’s what
he is saying here. 

 	Now, if I am not responsible of this life I now have, and it’s all
through Jesus and only sin and death and law can show its true, and
greatness and power, do we not then continue in sin that grace may
abound even more? And the answer comes back, ‘when one has his life,
it is a new life, where one turns his back on sin and death and walks in
righteousness in the light, for with the baptism in Christ, putting us
into Christ, we have a new nature that loves righteousness, and hates
iniquity’. That’s right! 

26.	 So, chapters 4 and 5 show forth what is ours. And chapter 6 starts
to tell the change that comes from God's worthiness. Shall we sin?
Impossible! It is a new life and a new nature, the old one is dead. See,
Bro Branham said, “Look”, he said, “When that Holy Spirit gets
down in your soul,” he said, “it forms and new nature that falls on
that spirit.” The spirit of man, see? 

  	So, shall we continue in sin? I am going to tell you something,
there’s no true believer will continue in sin, because he’s got a
nature that’s changed he doesn’t want. You won’t even try, but see
what Paul was doing was just letting you know, look brother/sister, I
don’t care what you and I ever accomplish this side of Heaven, if from
the moment we are born again until the day we were taken, we are winning
souls, sixty per minute, twenty-four hours a day, we're raising
graves… even out of the graveyard, turning the world upside down from
God, it would not make you one bit more saved than the thief that died
upon Calvary and had nothing but a wasted life to give back to Jesus
Christ.             

     So, Paul just came in and let them know, look, just this one thing,
it’s all of God, it’s all of grace. Amen, the Lord bless you, shall
we rise at this time.  

     Heavenly Father, we thank You for this little time and fellowship
we had around Your Word, and we pray my God that this rhetorical
question that Paul brought out here, answered so beautifully for us in
this chapter 6, of that life which is Christ. Yet, it brings out even
deeper and richer what he said of Your grace and Your love and mercy
given to us, that there’s no matter let sin mount to the very Heavens,
let sin cover the earth, let it be until it looked as though there was
no grace, was nothing left at all. There was nothing left at all. Yet,
grace will still shine forth, because all the more clearly do we see His
grace in the light of the power of the darkness of sin.         

     So, Father, tonight we thank You that this question is rhetorical
to us too, but the cause to open our minds and eyes even more than ever
that it has to be of God, it is all of God. And if we are all of God,
then there is no part left and we can say with Jesus, "Satan has no part
in me and I got no part in him." And say, right with the Bride of this
hour, and this is the great hour to say it, “I am one with my
Father,” just standing right on that, Lord. Away from the slime the
surf and all these things of sin, Lord. 

     We got our eyes off that entirely now, as we see our union with
You, and it comes more and more, answering back and the corridors and
down in the deep caverns of our soul. Lord, we see even more the
reality, what, "shall we sin that grace may abound?" It’s not even in
the picture, because its life, life, life going on to greater, greater,
greater Life, higher highs and deeper depths, because immortality is
right around the corner and after that the New Jerusalem, the Holy White
City. 

Oh, Father God, we thank You for that tonight, Lord, we know that’s
its real, we know that’s it is true, and we rejoice in it. And unto
the King eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the Only Wise God, be all power
and all honour and glory for evermore. Amen. 

		 

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